Oyster in operation - Aquamarine Power

[rossgk]

Looks like it needs to be lighter weight and stiffer. There's a lot of wasted energy there it seems as the waves are doing things that the unit is not translating into movement. Would prob work better with multiple booms so lateral wave differences could be captured too. Now a crest and trough coincident along the length of the boom fight against each other = lost energy. Hopefully the next clamshell design is more efficient. Kudos for taking a shot at it.

[ChancerellaBangs]

ok it looks like there is a bit of pipe floating on the surface and yet I see that power production. please explain how this works.

[Simmons22]

its actually a huge hydraulic arm connected to the sea floor. it looks like this:

\__ -> __/

[mike809453908]

wow that's more power than i was expecting! i like the simplicity of the system and the way your using hydraulics to transfer the energy, should be reliable!

[mike809453908]

how much power does this produce?

[mmcadam]

@mike809453908

315kW peak

[mmcadam]

Fantastic.