Ocean Power Technologies and the United States Navy have joined forces to build a small wave farm off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. The company has installed a PowerBuoy unit a mile off the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corp Base, with plans to install others in the near future to generate 1MW. The units are just 12 feet in diameter and 55 feet long and can they be arranged in larger arrays that generate hundreds of megawatts of clean power. This endeavor is part of the Navy’s long term goal of reducing their dependence on fuel for power.
May 26th, 2011 at 2:42 am
Did you know that Romania has a technical solution with the highest efficiency to capture wave power?
Patent 108893 entitled Dynamic Engine for Sea Wave Energy Catching. A pioneering invention. It is estimated that “dynamic engine” has the ability to catching wave energy at a rate of over 80% while the other technical solutions known worldwide, are not able to capture wave energy with a higher percentage of about 10-15%.
Patent RO 108893 publised on internet.
For accurate information please visit: Brevet RO no. 108893. MOTOR DYNAMIC FOR WAVE CATCHING
Cosma Vasile. Romania. E-mail cosma.vasile@yahoo.com