Aegir Dynamo - Wave Energy Converter

[nuksucow1983]

has anyone here checked out the zeitgeist movement?

[fargonebewdy]

i have immense respect for anyone throwing their time effort and ingenuity into this exciting frontier of zero emission energy - even the dude from mauritius on youtoob BUT after considering all the storms ships typhoons rust blah blah blah - its obvious to me the CETO technology takes the freaking cake!!! and it also does onshore DESALINATION!!!!!!!!

---- one hard act to follow!! we need to get our shit together to mass produce 'em fast and get the price down.

[nuksucow1983]

@fargonebewdy check out Zeitgeist movement or the Venus project. Ideas like this are our future

[identernet]

Personaly I believe your system has to be the one of the most efficient currently being investigated. It uses off the shelf generators as against linear generators where most is redundant at any one time. Direct drive to electrical energy - you can't get better than that.

As for doubters and tree huggers, what else is there out there. Only wind and the energy density is far less than waves. Only Brussels keeps that belief alive for the European turbine manufacturers. Hope it does well.

[hugejoint]

how easy, bravo

[cant7think7clearly]

That's fantastic. Well done!

[yourredcomrade717]

i think its a great idea, but man its a high maintence one. considering salt water distroys everything. ive had chains thick as my wrist rot to dust in 4 years just by leaving them up near the water, not even on the shore. cant imagine what kind of corrosion can happen to something that moves like that being exposed 24/7.

[oceannavitas]

The type of steel that this device will be constructed of will corrode at a rate of approx 0.1mm per year in sea water. All components that are to be exposed to the elements will be coated with cathodic protection materials to provide a tested life cycle of over 20 years.

To design a device without taking such things into account would have been negligent to say the least.

[irkiIIer]

i got better idea then that, but gj man 4 stars :)

[simoncondry]

Its a little hard to have a 30ft wave in a 8ft deep tank. I may post a video when we put one in the sea.

[swellfuel]

What happens when a 30 ft wave hits its. The pressure will destroy it. I speech from experience. Test it in the ocean on a rough day and then you can evaluate it's survivability.

[oceannavitas]

This is only a small-scale prototype.

The full-scale model has roughly the same mass and survivability as a standard navigational buoy.

People with far less marine engineering knowledge than are blessed with in modern times have been successfully deploying such devices at sea for over 200 years without too much trouble.

It is also moored using proven techniques pioneered by the off-shore oil and gas industries. Stop worrying!

[Morris1962]

Like I always say, the key to it is working the shaft.

[gheatwole]

Lol. Working the shaft.