I had no idea it was already being used.
(Although mine was for hydrogen extraction)
Posted on 07/30/2024 7:57:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
Those had better be some serious chains and anchors.
Does being bigger make it more durable than smaller units, when you include all possible costs, which includes replacement costs?
Will it screw up the surfing?
Junk to clutter up the ocean.
Will they ever stop with this insanity.
Build nukes!
Waves run all the time, unlike solar or wind.
There is a lot of potential for a system like this in remote areas of bases.
Modern small modular-capable nuclear energy power-plants are a much better idea.
Everythig natural in nature - the wind, the waves, the sun is important to how the world works. How much energy can you “harvest” from them before you alter the way they work.
Do giant wind farms alter the winds?
Does “harversting” energy from waves, alter ocean currnts by the degree their energy has been reduced?
How cooler would the world get if solar arrays captured 100% of the electricity needed for everything?
Just asking.
Oh finally! The government’s price was finally revealed in the last paragraph of this piece of publicity stunt: 12.5 million for a single “potential” 1.25 Megawatt offshore generator.
No connection to shore power. No cabling, Tidewater access roads and towers. Transformers and rectifiers or inverters or battery storage devices so what little energy is created at random tides can be provided “when it is actually needed” back on shore.
I have worked on pump motors bigger than 1.25 Megawatt. Worked on local ponds with 1930-era hydrogenerators in a mill pond of 12 Megawatt capacity. Ten times this thing.
And you can fish or swim in that little lake under the trees.
So considering it probably won't average its potential, it will power about 700-800 homes.
Not bad. I wonder what is its total cost per KW hour?
I wonder if it would be more efficient if put in a shallower spot, where the wave amplitude is higher, or maybe the reverse it true.
This makes a lot more sense than capturing energy from radio waves. There is actually some real energy here.
Expecting to produce enough power to charge a cell phone.
If it truly works, the Green Weenies will come up with an endangered jellyfish to stop it from being used..............
You are not allowed to ask that question. Don’t do it again.
Think of a power plant for mobile dry docks during a war.
>>When operating at full capacity, this first-of-its-class energy harvester boasts a “potential rated capacity” of 1.25 megawatts.
IIRC, the smallest nuke reactor in the US has a generating capacity of 582 megawatts. since the “potential rated capacity” is the unattainable happy case, I wonder what the “actual” capacity of this generator is going to be, and through how much of the year it will be able to run.
The salt water impact on all ocean based generating equipment is significant. Tidal and wave forces are unceasing, that is true, but the equipment life would be very compromised by sea water in every case. The MARS project off Venice is a good example and it doesn’t generate any energy.
Given a -3dB rule of thumb, I’d say about 600 kilowatts.................
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