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Electric Wave Park
Posted on: January 7, 2008 8:19 PM, by CR McClain
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Damn but that diagram is unhelpful. It has three captions:
(1) I think "piston" is more descriptive than "pump". And the piston stays still while the rest of the housing (filled with air at the top) moves up and down with the waves, rather than what they show (which is the relative motion).
(2) Seawater does not "compress" -- it is put under pressure. I would have said that the piston forces seawater up and down through the turbine.
(3) Seems okay. That makes 1 for 3.
The youtube videos are pretty cool though.
Posted by: kevin | January 7, 2008 9:19 PM
I'm not an expert on how ocean waves this distance from shore are generated --- is it mostly tidal forces or wind? Assuming it's tidal, this is a generator which extracts useful gravitational energy from the Earth-Moon system (as opposed to a waterfall which only extracts it from Earth). Cool!
Posted by: John | January 9, 2008 4:24 PM