How the Ocean Could Power Our Homes

We spoke to the co-founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power to learn about how their floaters convert waves into energy.

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[AnthonyLockly]

I love to see this technology tested in Wisconsin, along the shores of Lake Michigan.

[ramoncastillo]

Ten years ago I had the opportunity to achieve a study to optimizing a wave energy converter quite similar to this one, but we could not get financiation to build it. I am glad that our idea was not so crazy and someone else can bring it to the reality.

[paulc.sachsejr.]

This system looks like a maintenance nightmare. As soon as all those greasable joints get attacked by the salt water, the efficiency would drop substantially.

[oidbio]

The floaters look like they are metal. Seems like they should be made of fiberglass since sea water is so corrosive to metal.

[FinancialShinanigan]

The side to side tension must be crazy & I wonder if they tested buoys and how that went

[oznerriznick]

Awsome idea!
When waves are smaller, a wave generating chamber could create larger waves by filling and releasing water passively using a free moving vertical butterfly valve system.

[hwarmweak]

can you possibly get your camera people to hold the camera steady for long enough to actually see it? and if they can do that, can you get your editors to not cut away to a different shaky shot after 1.5 seconds?

[betsyrocks]

Looking forward to this technology coming to Wichita, Kansas.

[alexforget]

To make it cost efficient it need to operate for decades without much maintenance.
Salt water is a very difficult environment. But their system is simple and use standard component, maybe it’s cost effective in certain locations.

[JJ-yhkf]

Wonder if they could be installed on the sides of cruise ships.Then, they could power the ship and maybe serve as lifeboats, if the ship goes down.

[miketiong]

Movement of units can contributes to material fatique over time. Eventually, the supporting structure will cracked up/collapsed

[Nunyabiznss]

I see what you did there. "Want to see them come to appear/a pier near you?"

[dpharr]

You could put them off the east and left coast of America

People will love it

[basilwhite]

If we could scale this to single-use, one floater could power a mansion

[oksupra]

That’s a reupload, also it’s way less efficient then vortex turbines

[carlosorebelo]

Like Paul C. Sachse Jr. said, looks quite probably a maintenance huge regular cost. And I add to that, what about tides? No explanation is given on that, but they seem to be fixed structures. Consider 2 metres water level difference there times a day and one wonders how the system can perform and thus influencing eficiency.

[GaryBeltz]

How would this system take into account for calm days?

[cupwalker.]

I plan on continuing and growing my career towards this kind of energy ...it makes to much and so much sense to me ...but I'm sure there is a lot of politics involved to keep people from having so much clean free energy magnificent Energy. ... I mean I thought nobody owns the ocean so if somebody's going to make money off the ocean then I need some more information first . So I don't become the bad guy 😎

[MrJorge]

Anything to get away from fossil fuels, especially oil

[sustainability]

This is an interesting new piece of technology 👍