Comments on: Massive Offshore Waves Sink Australia's Oceanlinx Wavepower Pilot

By: Jl3793

Jl3793 — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:28:00 +0000

And I note that many newspapers actually said that the Maui project would be delivering electricity to the grid in 2011 – based on information from the company. I’ve always floated “pie-in-the-sky” info too when I wanted to float some shares too. This whole thing doesn’t pass the smell test. Even after a couple of years.

By: G.Bowyer.

G.Bowyer. — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:09:00 +0000

Absolute rubbish, a competent engineer should anticipate a worst case scenario before the manufacture of any structure. Let’s build it and see if it works is a recipy for adisaster, a method usually adopted when someone else is picking up the tab.

By: Man Schoenemann

Man Schoenemann — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:32:56 +0000

I found your blog very interesting. I will check back often to read your updates.

By: david lasker

david lasker — Sat, 29 May 2010 01:37:12 +0000

I see where you have had corrected your comment about the device being “93 miles off the coast of Australia” – good on you. For your further information it is really a case of back to the drawing board as the latest info is that the device has literally broken up into “40 pieces” and salvage and repair is not an option – to add insult to injury the local port authority (who own the breakwater against which the device foundered) have instructed Oceanlinx to move the debris off the ocean floor asap so that it does not become a hazard to shipping entering Port Kembla !!! Engineers who have had experience with designing structures subject to the power of the ocean along the coast of New South Wales cannot understand how anybody would have been so ill informed as to place their equipment (dredges,platforms etc) so close to “a hard place” like a breakwater or revetment wall- David Lasker

By: david lasker

david lasker — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:40:02 +0000

re Susan Kraemers article on the Port Kembla fiasco – the device was moored approx 150 metres off Pt Kembla’s Eastern breakwater so please cannot reconcile this with SK’s comment that the device was located “93 miles off the coast of Australia” – is there something I’m missing?

cheers

david lasker

civil engineer

By: Ed Swanson

Ed Swanson — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:53:17 +0000

Honesty means all the relevant facts.

Links to originating story and web resources are helpful.

What does our society expect? Getting the moon and back on first launch?

If any of you youngsters look back at the US Navy Vanguard program, see at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_(rocket) , it takes trial and “learning failures” to achieve something new or out of the box.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:07:06 +0000

I don’t think there is any dishonesty in “this industry”. There’s nothing to hide.Harnessing wave power is completely new – hardly an industry yet – just a few prototypes.

And R&D is inherently full of school-of-hard-knocks lessons – that’s how R&D will come up with the right way to harness wave power.

By: Martin Aker

Martin Aker — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:58:02 +0000

Thanks for the report. We need more honesty in this industry. In Europe there seems to be some progress but there are plenty of failures too.

Pelamis (the sea snake) – their 3 machines in Portugal are tied up on the dock. The only guys still working it seems are Aquamarine Power they have their first 315kW machine operating in Orkney. They duck under the big waves – seems to make sense to me.

Not sure if the OPT guys are actually producing any power. They are not grid connected but could be producing power to a load bank.

More honesty from all – please!

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:03:09 +0000

Link to the actual news report might help.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/17/2901059.htm

[SK: thanks, sorry, forgot it]