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- inactive, on 10/23/2008, -1/+15Some more info which I miss in article:
* Initial costs are put at 8.5 million euro.
* Once complete the project is expected to meet the average annual electricity demand of more
than 15,000 Portuguese households whilst displacing more than 60,000 tonnes per year of
carbon dioxide emissions from conventional generating plant.
* About the company http://www.pelamiswave.com
* Depending on the wave resource, machines will on average produce 25-40% of the full rated output over the course of a year.
Tech news: http://www.chilipress.com/technology.php - masahlko, on 10/23/2008, -0/+14more like until the moon moves away
- fragileKnight, on 10/23/2008, -0/+13Technology going Green! This is good and welcome news. This should be combined with the power generating windmills and this might be a solution to the energy crisis that is omnipresent in about 65% of the world.
- Internazionale, on 10/23/2008, -0/+13***** rights Portugal
- jwolcott, on 10/23/2008, -1/+14OMG, you're right! Quick, everyone STOP tanning, or we're going to run out of sunlight!
- lemur, on 10/23/2008, -2/+14It sounds awesome until everybody starts doing it and the waves run out.
- inactive, on 10/23/2008, -0/+8And the wind farms will steal all the wind. :(
- inactive, on 10/23/2008, -1/+8We also have one of the world's largest solar farms.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23660598/
Proud to be a Portuguese. - jwolcott, on 10/23/2008, -0/+7No, you're going to get dugg down for trying to manipulate us into digging you up by stating that we will digg you down.
- SyuRi, on 10/23/2008, -0/+6I feel so good for seeing my beloved country on international (good) news :')
- tinus, on 10/23/2008, -1/+6Now let's see what the maintenance costs will be...
- rickyisawesome, on 10/23/2008, -1/+6why does the author write like an old gold miner?
- IAmRoot, on 10/23/2008, -1/+6These devices may pose probems for marine life, especially whales and other large marine animals (mainly because of the anchor cables). The proposed wave farms would eventually spread many square miles and could potentially disrupt migrations of whales and such. It may reduce CO2 emissions, but don't think it doesn't have it's downsides as well. These devices need to be engineered not only to be efficient, but also to cause as little damage as possible to the ecosystem. Efficient wave farms aren't necessarily silver bullets.
- jwolcott, on 10/23/2008, -1/+6no.
- Metyu, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4Wave power is a good thing in the right context but the article is a little over optimistic with it's claim:
"If we laid these 459-foot orange caterpillars all over the world's oceans, we could tap 2 terawatts of power"
There are roughly 25 million homes in the UK. Assuming they're 2m across, you're looking at nearly 5 million m2 surface area coverage for the UK alone. I can't help thinking this might get in the way of fishermen and ferries, not to mention sea life. Also decommissioning problems, contamination from rusting etc. - malignatius, on 10/23/2008, -0/+3Oh, the seapeople won't like this..
- wellgood, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2Huzzaa!
- omarst, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2poor poor seamen
- Sheethappens, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2Too bad it's wrong in its claim. Australia had the first one:
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/issues/climate ... - Rapax, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2You'll want them close to the coast for several reasons:
1) Vertical Amplitude of Waves increases as they approach the shore
2) Shorter distance to bridge with the cables bringing the juice home
3) dito for maintenance etc.
I've probably forgotten some other reasons, but the main point is that whales don't usually come that close to the shore (there are exceptions --> Hermanus, RSA). - djodorg, on 10/26/2008, -0/+1That's unbelievable. Wow.
- inactive, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Ah, gotta love that Portuguese/British Alliance. Thanks John of Gaunt ;)
- spriggig, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Nothing like a late comment to a late post of an old news story--been seeing these as concept drawings in magazines for as long as I can remember, nice to see the real thing made it off the drawing board.
- nigelmansell, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1nor the sea monkeys
- organicboy, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1This is good news, which is why I Dugg it.
But it's also a woefully late post, since the story was announced 15 July.... 3 months ago!
See the original source:
http://www.pelamiswave.com/news.php?id=27 - brandonthebuck, on 11/01/2008, -0/+1I've grown up with having to see big oil derricks along the coast. I've always been in favor tearing those out and installing windmills instead, but know that'd be nixed for "unsightliness." This, however, I imagine would be fairly invisible after a mile or two, so it'd be easier to convince the public for installation.
- inactive, on 10/23/2008, -0/+15 million metres = 5000 kilometres
- TEMM, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Yea a 5 square km patch of ocean is huge. There are 361,000,000 square km of ocean on the planet.
- UCBrother, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1it's not complicated science.. We should have been doing this a long time ago.. google even has a floating data center project which will utilize the same design for energy... Until these huge companies start focusing on alternative American's as a whole won't either
- vi0letruby, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Yep, and via the article, it was was back in 2006. Whole topic is interesting enough to re-visit (or in my case, visit for the first time). Thanks for the link.
- since1983, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1portugal could do better if there was no spain...
- zacharytelschow, on 10/23/2008, -1/+2And the cost per kilowatt/hour is...?
- Kishoba, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Very intriguing for localized instances, but 2.25MW for the amount of shoreline consumed isn't very practical.
- BassMann22, on 12/06/2008, -0/+0Well I hope it is rust free!!
- CressCrowbits, on 10/23/2008, -1/+1Ensure they are placed in locations far from migration paths. Shouldn't be too difficult.
- IntoTheFuture, on 10/23/2008, -0/+0I can’t believe that something as powerful as the awesome force of the tireless ocean hasn’t been utilized this way before, sure there are things to consider such as, it is man made and anything we make, eventual expires and it could result in a hazard to the ocean and its inhabitants. However this could be viewed as a right step in the right direction, I eagerly await the refinement of this technology and future use.
- Cybermaul, on 10/23/2008, -1/+1Silly, that will only happen when the water crystal shatters. Now, go make sure the cracks aren't spreading any more.
- Inox555, on 10/26/2008, -0/+0Give Doc Brown a call when output improves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_Dh2zvwLI - PiotreG, on 10/27/2008, -0/+0And I have read that windmills may pose a threat to birds. Nevertheless, the less impact on the environment the better - even if it is just a lesser evil.
- Mcdz, on 10/23/2008, -4/+1Portugal still sucks
/sarcasm - NoozeHound, on 10/23/2008, -6/+2Let's start a wave (stand up).
- zacharytelschow, on 10/23/2008, -5/+1Depending on how its set up, you're either proud to have fellow countrymen paying more than they need to for electricity or proud to subsidize asinine projects that change almost nothing with your own money. Congratulations! I bet that wave power is really changing your daily life compared to other things the money could have been used for.
- atgmac, on 10/23/2008, -6/+2Did anybody else read peniswave.com ?
- blankoboy, on 10/23/2008, -7/+1Portugal hates the US for their freedoms. That's terroristic behavior on their part!
- zacbro, on 10/23/2008, -8/+1That's perfect since everyone knows the only thing that can stop the waves is true love!
- joeconway, on 10/23/2008, -13/+2no it's not, 15Kw peak output. Thats what i call a big failure
Although im going to get dugg down because my source was a person and not an article on the internet that i can link to...
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