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What is the Pelamis Wave Energy Converter do?
Enhances wave energy captured
Who can benefit from wave energy
Everybody that has the resources to set it up and maintain it
2 types of waves
ocean's surface using the kinetic energy of the waves and deep inside the water due to pressure
it work without fossil fuels?
The water is channeled in a small area spinning some turbine
cost of pelamis wave converter
Around 6 million
Is it renewable or non renewable?
Renewable
using wave energy on a large scale?
No one, wave energy is still very new and just got the worlds attention again
first wave energy patent?
issued in France in 1799 by Girard and his sons
it get funded?
By government bonds and grants
Estimates of wave energy to use in the house?
$0.60 to 41.00 per kilowatt-hour
What can wave energy do ?
Anything you need electricity wise
the company with the largest wave energy testing rig?
CorPower Energy Company
What is the driving force of it all?
Heat from the sun
it have the potential for enormous amounts of energy?
Densely packed energy
Cost of wave energy
endangering some life forms of marine species
the potential in wave energy?
Waves hold an abundance of energy
the leading company working on wave energy?
Murtech and Ocean Power Technologies
What is wave energy also thought as?
thought of as one type of wind energy
wave energy created
when air currents collide with the water, waves are created
Is there pollution with wave energy?
yeah noise pollution for sure and never know if any spillage can happen
what is wave energy replacing
fossil fuels and non renewable products
Founder of Wave Energy
Pierre-Simon Girard
Best ocean for waves
Pacific Ocean
wave energy compare to gas energy price?
Gas:$1.667 kWh Electricity:$0.165 kWh Wave: 7.5 cents per kWh
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Cost?
Only people by the coast can have the most energy and best energy