Thursday, December 18, 2008

Energy from Waves

The oceans have enough energy to provided more than two trillion tons watts of electricity to the public. That's a lot of energy and scientists want a way to harness all this power, their way of doing this would be by using the device, Checkmate SeaEnergy(anaconda). This device is a long rubber, water filled tube that is only currently used in small sizes, but has the potential to get big enough for the ocean. If the scientists are successful with this device they would be able to harness about one megawatt of power at about 12 cents a kilowatt-hour. This would definitely increase energy produced for the public which would lower prices of electricity drastically.

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http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21072/?a=f

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