Pelamis Wave - Seatrials

I understand that this thing has fallen apart in rough sea recently.  Too many moving parts and too much fatigue on fulcrums. Still too complicated to be the right answer.

how can you get electricity from that thing?

So oil rigs, ships, floating platforms have no future too? Oh wait they already exist and work fine, so where's your argument?
Of course this needs maintenance, but so does a nuclear power plant.

There is a big difference between a platform, a concise space, which produces millions of barrels of oil and can be relocated as needed and an array of this kind of floating devices, covering many square miles of ocean, trying to produce the same amount of power. I am not against new ideas. I think we have to look for new sources of energy today so we can diminish or even eliminate the dependency we have in old sources, tomorrow. >>>

>>>But in my way of judging, I just did not see yet any of those ´´floating`` projects that could convince me to be able to produce the amount of power we need and to be reliable and enduring. Inevitable we will go thru a stage of trial and errors until we can come up with some golden eggs. Many ideas will be put on paper or even produced. Many will work, but not enough to pay for their own cost or maintenance! They will be written off one after another.>>>

>>>Clean coal technology is been studied and Im sure we will harvest the power of the sun, the wind, the waves, the tides, but as an example right now, we need ten thousand wind mills just to have the same output of ONE nuclear power plant. Try to understand, Im not trying to be smarty. To finish, I think the future should hold a place for new nuclear technology. That is a big change on my own beliefs but that is the kind of power I really believe today. We are surrounded by it anyway!

Three articulated steel "sea-snakes" moored to the seabed three miles off Portugal's northern coast, each about the length of a nuclear submarine, generate a total of 2.25 megawatts, enough to supply 1,500 households with electricity. Not a bad start!

They can only generate if they are deployed...not in a dry dock being repaired...again. OPTT has a much better product!

Oh I see, yes I think we need to drastically reduce our energy consumption (which could made a huge difference if everyone started at the same time), and at the same time replace those filthy, destructive energy sources like coal and oil.

But how do we get people to consume less energy? People think with their wallets, and as long as it's cheap, they'll use plenty of it. Taxes are the only thing that would change habits, but the 'freedom-whining' far-right of this nation will block that.

Such a good point. People also seem to have a "preening and strutting override" that means they'll tolerate all kinds of environmental damage for the sake of looking better than their mates. I don't have a solution to either problem I'm afraid... the only way I can calm myself down and therefore using less stuff is by turning off the TV and being at home more...