Also Try Tidal Power News -04-18-08 Wave Power (Time.com) "We get power from the wind, the sun, the atom and the stuff that's buried beneath the Earth. All that we haven't tapped is the ocean — and Finavera's conquering that final domain. The Canadian company with Irish roots (hence the name) pioneers projects that harness the power of ocean waves to generate electricity. Electrical generators, placed on the surface of the ocean, create power as they rise and fall with the motion of the ocean — which contains some of the highest energy density of any potential renewable source." 04-08 -09-16-06 DOE Proposes Cutting Funds for Hydropower and Geothermal Power (Christian Science Monitor) "Power from tidal flows, waves, and irrigation canals are expanding the definition of hydropower - none of which are likely to get DOE research funding if the hydropower budget gets whacked, some observers say." 09-06 09-05-04 Offshore Electric Project (Ocean Power Delivery) "Ocean Power Delivery Ltd has developed a novel offshore wave energy converter called Pelamis. Building on technology developed for the offshore industry, the Pelamis has a similar output to a modern wind turbine. The first full-scale pre-production prototype has been built and will be tested at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney." "It is anticipated that future `wave farm' projects would consist of an arrangement of interlinked multi-machines connected to shore by a single subsea cable. A typical 30MW installation would occupy a square kilometre of ocean and provide sufficient electricity for 20,000 homes. Twenty of these farms could power a city such as Edinburgh." 9-04 09-05-04 World's First Offshore Electric Project Starts (MSNBC News) "The world’s first offshore project to generate power from waves, built in the Orkney Islands off northern Scotland, has started production and supplied electricity to the grid, the project’s developers have announced." "The prototype Pelamis machine, which uses wave motion to turn an electricity producing generator, can supply enough power to run 500 homes. A long cylinder, the machine sits on the water semi-submerged." "The initial operating costs are half those of wind power when it launched 20 years ago and are a quarter of those of solar photovoltaic technology, Carcas said." "The British government is keen to encourage wave power and recently announced $90 million in support for the wave and tidal power sector." 9-04 Papers Oceans Provide Electrical Power (Christian Science Monitor) "Pacific swells off the Oregon coast can range from at least five feet high in the summer to 11-1/2 feet high in the winter. Over the length of the coastline, these swells could, in principle, provide 13,800 megawatts each year to a state that consumes 5,000 to 6,000 megawatts. Oregon already hosts several old coastal lumber mills that are powered by individual power substations, each of which has an outflow pipe to the sea. The existing mills would allow wave-power companies to ship 2,000 megawatts to Oregon communities without any additional infrastructure." "Nicol Stephen, a Scottish enterprise minister who visited the project in Portugal, is proposing Scotland utilize the same Pelamis technology and begin harnessing ocean power in the waters off Orkney by 2007. The payoff could be substantial. According to a report by Carbon Trust, a British organization that works with both business and public sectors to reduce carbon emissions, wave and tidal power could in the long run supply as much as 20 percent of the United Kingdom's current electricity needs." 09-06 Wave Buoy (IPS OWEC) Describes an off-shore wave power generator that the authors claim is more cost-efficient than wind power. 7-01 Wave Energy Generator - Archimedes Project Wave Swing (ECN) Provides a drawing of the design. 1-01 Wave Power - Salter's Duck (Green Left Weekly) Describes efforts to create a floating canister to serve as a wave-based source of electricty. 12-00 Wave Power - Types (ACRE) Describes types of wave-based sources of electricty, including Salter's Duck, TAPCHAN, and ocscillating water columns. 12-00 Wave Power - Types (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network) Describes types of wave-based sources of electricty, including tidal, wave, and ocean thermal energy conversion systems. 12-00 Wave Power - Types (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network) Describes types of wave-based sources of electricty, including wave surge or focusing devices, ocscillating water columns, and floats or pitching devices. 12-00 Wave Power on the Pacific Coast (MSNBC News) "The potential for harnessing the power of waves has drawn serious study by Oregon State University, federal and state agencies, and communities along the Oregon Coast." " 'There's a real good chance that Oregon could turn into kind of the focal point in the United States for wave energy development and I think that would be a boon to the economy,' said Gary Cockrum, spokesman for the Central Lincoln People's Utility District." " 'There is tremendous potential in the oceans to supply energy for the world,' Annette von Jouanne, an Oregon State electrical engineering professor, told the crowd. 'A 10-square-mile wave power plant could supply the entire state of Oregon.' 9-05

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