This is a fantastic invention!!! No joke, something like this - with the size of the english coast could power half the grid with little disruption to the coastline! Just place this on rocky coasts. Put a few 200MW generators every mile or so along the coast and hey presto - cheap, renewable electrcity! I suggest putting larger floating devices on the west coast (not the English channel) where the swell / wavelengths are longer. Medium sized ones would work better in the english channel
There is nothing new under the sun, All you need is a magnet, a coil, a diode and movement to create electrical power. This looks like an elaborate hoax to milk investors. Bill Gates came up with this idea to stop hurricanes, pump cold water to the surface, good luck getting a patent. Just too many moving parts to be feasible. I think one too many Gin & Tonics got his kit on. To each his own but even a caveman could do it!
Won't work... the size of the float to get any meaningful pressure and quantity, would be too big. There is an optimum size of a floating energy element, and it has to be small enough to extract the energy stored in the difference between a crest and the trough of the wave.
i see two problems. 1. each pump is fixed to the seafloor. 2. the buoy is an energy absorbing shape so very inefficient. MY COMPANY IS ATMOCEAN INC. and our system overcomes these costly design flaws. Feel free to contact me at atmocean.kithil@gmail.com.
Cool idea! What about another turbine blade attached to the pressured side with a check valve? Might increase efficiency... getting the idea from a Hydraulic Ram Pump to prevent the water back flushing yet harnessing the power from both the pressure and the falling of water on turbine blades.
I think it's great but what happens to the device during a storm ie survivability. Do you filter the sea water and if so how does the filter get cleaned. It's about time the smaller developer got some recognition rather than the established companies who appear to get amazing amounts of cash thrown at them.
@identernet Just from my personal experience on the water i think that if the waves got especially large the thing would just pull under the surface. I think it would have to be tough enough to take that if it can take the continual beating of ocean conditions. My main concern would be floating logs and debris which can be present and damaging in any weather conditions.
@freeofdymes The device would have to comprise of some device for pressurising the sea water. This would require seals, valves etc. Unfortunately these items do not like sand particles. There is also the added problem of sea animals ie molluscs and crustaceans as well as sea weed blocking the inlets. I have worked with pumps in sea water and you just wouldn't believe what gets in there.
cool!
Druffi212 2 weeks ago
This is a fantastic invention!!! No joke, something like this - with the size of the english coast could power half the grid with little disruption to the coastline! Just place this on rocky coasts. Put a few 200MW generators every mile or so along the coast and hey presto - cheap, renewable electrcity! I suggest putting larger floating devices on the west coast (not the English channel) where the swell / wavelengths are longer. Medium sized ones would work better in the english channel
googlepeakoil 3 weeks ago
its really a good invention
omatar92 3 weeks ago
There is nothing new under the sun, All you need is a magnet, a coil, a diode and movement to create electrical power. This looks like an elaborate hoax to milk investors. Bill Gates came up with this idea to stop hurricanes, pump cold water to the surface, good luck getting a patent. Just too many moving parts to be feasible. I think one too many Gin & Tonics got his kit on. To each his own but even a caveman could do it!
AmrHollywood 1 month ago
Won't work... the size of the float to get any meaningful pressure and quantity, would be too big. There is an optimum size of a floating energy element, and it has to be small enough to extract the energy stored in the difference between a crest and the trough of the wave.
juzzlookin 1 month ago
fantastic !!!
nedostizni2 1 month ago
i see two problems. 1. each pump is fixed to the seafloor. 2. the buoy is an energy absorbing shape so very inefficient. MY COMPANY IS ATMOCEAN INC. and our system overcomes these costly design flaws. Feel free to contact me at atmocean.kithil@gmail.com.
pkithil 1 month ago
green power
hamid4222 1 month ago
Cool idea! What about another turbine blade attached to the pressured side with a check valve? Might increase efficiency... getting the idea from a Hydraulic Ram Pump to prevent the water back flushing yet harnessing the power from both the pressure and the falling of water on turbine blades.
MrCyphrex 2 months ago
great idea and it has strong potential, it just needs to be refined a bit more.
pod5131 3 months ago
see wave powered boat
hydrogravitypower 3 months ago
great !
zzzzHALEzzzz 3 months ago
That was a wonderful demonstration that shows simply that it works and wheat one unit is capable of.
oasiac 6 months ago
I think it's great but what happens to the device during a storm ie survivability. Do you filter the sea water and if so how does the filter get cleaned. It's about time the smaller developer got some recognition rather than the established companies who appear to get amazing amounts of cash thrown at them.
identernet 11 months ago
@identernet Just from my personal experience on the water i think that if the waves got especially large the thing would just pull under the surface. I think it would have to be tough enough to take that if it can take the continual beating of ocean conditions. My main concern would be floating logs and debris which can be present and damaging in any weather conditions.
04023088 11 months ago
@identernet I don't think the water would need to be filtered, it's just running off of the pressure, there's no need for it to be clean.
freeofdymes 6 months ago
@freeofdymes The device would have to comprise of some device for pressurising the sea water. This would require seals, valves etc. Unfortunately these items do not like sand particles. There is also the added problem of sea animals ie molluscs and crustaceans as well as sea weed blocking the inlets. I have worked with pumps in sea water and you just wouldn't believe what gets in there.
identernet 6 months ago 2