Now being deployed, harnessing wave energy - "The 10x More Efficient Renewable"

[Pluvious]

Very fascinating !

A most innovative approach - each buoy is attached to the ocean bottom, which obviously limits it to deployment only near land, but it makes it accommodating for transmitting the generated power directly to a receiving station on land, along a cable attached to the sea floor.

This looks like it will be a successful innovation

CorPower Ocean builds advanced floating buoys that turn ocean waves into clean, predictable electricity. Their technology mimics the pumping action of a human heart to maximize energy capture during normal seas while surviving heavy storms.

[NNadir]

1. As if we haven't screwed up the oceans enough...

It's bad enough that the benthic ecosystem has been damaged by converting into and industrial park for wind turbines.

It's all an Ayn Randian wet dream, literally in this case.

We simply do not need more floating debris in our oceans, including spallated polymers from wind turbine blades, floating fragments of solar cells smashed by high seas and now this.

Isn't there enough garbage floating in the ocean already?

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. It looks like a promising design

At first blush, it looks quite similar to Panthalassa’s design, but this design is much more mechanical. It also depends on being tied to the ocean floor.

Sadly, Panthalassa is backed by Peter Thiel who wants to use their buoys for (what else?) powering data centers.

Damn it! Our first priority needs to be replacing fossil fuel plants with clean power sources (Solar, Wind, Wave, Geothermal, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion.) After we have secured our continued survival, we can think about AI.

[OnlinePoker]

3. Poor whales

A 100 MW farm would be 300 of these. Species like Humpbacks and Grey Whales don't have echolocation so they would go into these farms and smack headlong into them.

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. I'd worry more about large ships with immense spinning propellor blades.

https://www.neaq.org/about-us/press-room/press-releases/right-whale-calf-seriously-injured-by-boat-propeller/


I imagine these buoys, bobbing up and down, pumping internal pistons and generating machinery would make a fair amount of underwater noise, and (unlike ships) they don’t have sharp keels cutting through the water at several knots