RENEWABLES: EXPERIMENTAL WAVE POWER INSTALLATION PUT TO THE TEST IN ENGLAND.

Europe Energy, July, 2000

A European consortium of small companies and universities, co-ordinated by the University of Plymouth, has spent the last 18 months working on the device and has attracted significant funding from the European Commission's CRAFT scheme. CRAFT projects encourage collaboration between small and medium-sized enterprises and universities throughout Europe to create problem-solving innovations.While the idea of generating electricity from the sea is not itself original, how to harness wave power as a source of sustainable energy has stumped researchers across the world for many years.

The new device, however, is hoped to address this issue. It works on the principle of multiple water columns which oscillate with the movement of the sea waves. Air displaced above the...

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