Sustainable Today visits the Wallace Energy Systems and Renewables Facility at Oregon State University. Lab head Annette Von Jouanne takes us on a tour of ...
The problem with this system is that each time, the buoy come to a full
stop at the top and bottom of the travel, it will lose energy. Also the
mass that is being used is the mass of the buoy and not the full mass of
water all the way from the tip of the wave to the bottom of the sea. And
this buoys work out at sea and not at the shore. If you use the Oscillating
Water Column you would solve all this problems and would produce more
energy per square meter of sea
Seawave energy is not a sustainable energythat can continuos supply power
to the g enerator, Although its a clean energy. Why not try to experiment
the pendulom for clean free energy without stopping the supply energy to
the generator? Coz i have in mind. No need forces of nature for generating
creating power to the generator than pendulom that no need forces of
nature, but by itsellf continuos moving by magnetic forces.
Lecture with Belinda Batten from Corvallis Science Pub. These are the formative years of the West Coast wave energy industry, and scientists are working with ...
Electricity From Ocean Waves [Part 1 of 2]
A few miles off the coast of Newport, OR there is a machine that turns ocean waves into the kind of power you can use in your home. Dave Malkoff ...
(Part 1) OSU Marine Forum Presents: Matthew Wypych
From Waves to Energy - The Oregon Buoy
Turns out, the first wave energy collection buoy was just deployed for commercial use in the US off the coast of Reedsport Oregon. That's big news. But, what ...
this video leaves out the most important disadvantage of the power buoy -
its material intensity; roughly speaking a power buoy needs 8-10 times more
material weight to produce the same power as a wind turbine. This is simply
the result of the ocean being 850 times more dense than the atmosphere. A
lightweight power buoy simply will not work.
Good point. It's obviously more than wind right now. I wish I had the
numbers on that. Given that the buoy is so new it's a hard comparison to
make. I mean, this one buoy was millions in the making, and it only gives
100 homes worth of energy. Not sure what the estimates are in the long run
though...
"Each buoy produces enough energy for about 100 homes, a giant wind turbine
about 750 homes." Although interesting data, more interesting would have
been the cost per kilowatt of generation capacity, and the cost per
kilowatt hour, and compare that to a wind turbine.
Thanks for sharing that extra insight Greg. I fully agree with you. It does
seem like it's not the best option right now for energy usage. It's nice to
see we're experimenting with different forms of energy though.
(Part 2) OSU Marine Forum Presents: Matthew Wypych
Matthew Wypych of the University of Canterbury spoke at Oregon State University's Marine Forum. He presented on radiated surface waves with respect to ...
(Part 3) OSU Marine Forum Presents: Matthew Wypych