Energy from Waves

July 20, 2008 | Source: Technology Review

A new device being developed by U.K.-based Checkmate SeaEnergy could help tap a portion of the two trillion watts of electricity that the ocean’s waves could generate.

(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK)

(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK)

The “Anaconda” device would be a 200-meters long, water-filled rubber tube closed at both ends that transmits wave energy to a turbine, capable of generating one megawatt of power at about 12 cents a kilowatt-hour.