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Ocean Wave Energy Project
Here’s a project invoking ocean wave energy off the cost of Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. I understand that getting a permit to put an energy-extracting device into moving water is...
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Dozens of Ideas in Ocean Wave Energy
I just reviewed another in a long series of attempts at ocean wave energy. This one is similar to a Pelamis, but, because it requires less material it will be less expensive, thus offering a lower...
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Wall Street Journal Covers Ocean Wave Energy – But Why?
Here’s an article in the Wall Street Journal that presents a short summary of different types of devices that generate electricity by converting the kinetic energy from ocean waves. I was a WSJ...
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Can Ocean Wave Energy Be Cost-Effective?
The more I read about this, and the more time passes (perpetually bringing down the cost of solar and wind), the more I doubt it. Having said that, here’s an article on the use of wave energy in...
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Identifying Solid Opportunities in Renewable Energy
An investor wrote me yesterday about his interest in pursuing a joint venture with a company in ocean wave energy. Like so many others hoping to experience the upside potential of renewable energy and...
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Novel Approach to Ocean Wave Energy
Here’s an approach to extracting the energy from ocean waves whose inventor asks my opinion. I love looking at new ideas. Here goes: Will this generate electricity? Certainly. Will it provide a viable...
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New Approach To Ocean Wave Energy
In the course of a given month, I’m sure I contradict myself at least once or twice regarding the hope that ocean wave energy can come to play a prominent role in the unfolding world of renewables....
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Concept in Ocean Wave Energy
Here’s a concept in ocean wave energy that is explained in a short video. Here’s the problem these guys are going to run into: they share a widely held misunderstanding that water in waves moves in...
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Concept in Ocean Wave Energy
Here’s a video on a device on the Brazilian coast that extracts the kinetic energy from ocean waves and converts it to electricity. As I watched, I was reminded of the numerous drawbacks to this and...
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Ocean Wave Energy Fail
Here’s one more attempt at ocean wave energy. Note that this one is not just bad, it’s pitiful. As waves pass a floating barge, water enters an L-shaped chamber (shown left) as the wave rises and exits...
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What To Make About This Concept In Ocean Wave Energy?
When I come across an idea like this, one that requires angel investment to bring this new concept in ocean wave energy into fruition, a project that is clearly asinine, I ask myself: Is this...
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Ocean Wave Energy Doomed To Failure
This is about what anyone who knows anything about clean energy would have predicted about Eco Wave Power Global: a loss of about 75% of its market value since it hit NASDAQ about six months ago. How...
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Ocean Wave Energy
A friend asked for my views on ocean wave energy, which I sent along (see link above). I wrote, “Some of them are more pessimistic than others. In essence, there are still several different basic...
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Ocean Wave Energy
Here’s another variation on the theme of converting the kinetic energy in ocean waves into electricity. Is it any better than what’s available now? No. This device allows the waves to move a long...
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Ocean Wave Energy: An Exercise in Futility
When I entered the renewable energy beat 15 years ago, devices like the one shown here, that extract some of the kinetic energy out of ocean waves, were considered potentially feasible. Over the years,...
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