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Uploaded by on May 22, 2009

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17090

A new wave energy converter can generate electricity from bulge waves that travel down a rubber tube.

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  • Epic tech!

    lets get em in the water like...now!

    put a thousand in, lets get the grid kicking with free/clean energy

  • Every video posted by newscientistvideo is littered with mindless comments posted by imbeciles. It's getting irritating.

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  • Why doesn't anyone quote facts and figures? Until I see some I haven't got a clue what power this thing is producing.

  • omg her accent goes straight threw ya

  • There is something like this that is off the coast of Fremantle Australia. Its a bit different in it having just a submerged buoy that bobs up and down with the waves instead of this huge snake like thing.

  • I watched a video on bio-mimicry where they're working on a surface style akin to that of.. I think it was basking sharks. the surface of their scales prevents barnacles and bacteria from adhering to the shark. This was being studied for application to surfaces in hospitals but I would think can be easily applied here as well.

  • i LOVE the word crustaceans.

  • Will work great untill crustaceans grow all over them.

  • I have an idea to convert wave energy. watch my video "floating wave energy extractor".

  • They wouldnt be associated with predators to sea life, because of their static position floating on the surface. They would be more akin to seaweed or a kelp forest which normally creates habitat for smaller animals. Not to mention they are 600+ feet, larger than the largest blue whale. As for affecting a sharks ability to sense electrical impulses and possibly starving, that would assume that sharks have a set territory, and no other sensory systems to help them hunt, if affected at all

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