 Okinawa shares a deep connection to the waters that surround it, a bond that stretches back for hundreds of years. But these waves might also help one man carry the whole world to a sustainable future. Hello, my name is Sumaru Shintake. I am working to convert wave energy to electricity. Professor Sumaru Shintake graduated in nuclear science before becoming a particle physicist. He joined OIST to develop an innovative quantum wave microscope. But by 2011, the Fukushima disaster and the ongoing climate emergency added another dimension to his research. When I joined OIST, that was 2011 where we had the earthquake and tsunami. And because of that, the nuclear power plant get disaster. So I felt some humidity. So I thought I should do something useful for future. This drive saw Professor Shintake and his team look at alternative energy production and led to the development of the wave energy converter. The wave comes, the water pushes this turbine and rotates. The turbine is connected to the electric generator and the electricity goes to the land through the cable. A pilot study was set up in the Maldives, proving that the turbines could effectively generate power from the waves. Then, Mark II was tested in Okinawa with a new ducted design and a supercapacitor to capture and store more of the energy of the sea's force. Wrapped in a concrete shell, the design was also a match for the island's yearly typhoons. Now the WEC is at phase 3, with a new series of turbines set to return to the Maldives where they were helped to power a seaside hotel. Our plan is to send the power of 20 kilowatt average to the hotel. It's a modest start, meeting around 10% of the hotel's electricity needs. But the technology is scalable and Professor Shintake has ambitious plans to increase energy output. We hope to provide electricity equivalent to 10 houses from one wave energy generator. From particle physics to clean power, Okinawa's beautiful and powerful coasts have proved a big inspiration for the professor. This is quite unique. We can see every day from the laboratory, we can see the ocean and the wintertime especially, we have so good waves every day. So I was frustrated not to use it, so I decided to do this, to use it. An oist commitment to supporting science may help Professor Shintake and his unit transform how we generate power across the globe. Just one part of a global solution to humanity's biggest challenge to date. We have pretty much freedom for research. Of course we have to do more inside of the research, but it's research itself the subject we can choose, whatever you want. This is a great thing, this university.