Comments on: World’s Largest Wave Power Hub Goes Live

By: North

North — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:04:49 +0000

Not a bad magazine you are starting here. I suggest you call the department “ocean energy” rather than “wave energy” as you are covering both tidal and wave energy conversion concepts, two very different things. Wave energy originates from the Sun (like everything else), whereas tidal energy is the only known way to capture the energy of the orbital motion of the Moon.

By: Chris Milton

Chris Milton — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:45:37 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys! It’s great to see such positivity behind marine power. Truly, this is a renewable whose only condition is that the moon continues to circle this planet .. if that ever ceased to be the case, I think electricity would be the least of our problems.

Chris.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:02:41 +0000

I agree with Purshottam Panchal, the world’s oceans are a vast resource that we should be looking to use (responsibly) more and more. The fact that the tides are 100% predictable – in some cases we can predict, very accurately, tide patterns 200 years into the future, means that our energy supply is not at mother nature’s mercy.
We have the technology, we have the oceans, all we need now is the determination and the legislation from our nations’ leaders.
If we can develop tidal power alongside battery technology for, lets say, electric cars…then we really could be onto a winner.

By: Purshottam Panchal

Purshottam Panchal — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:53:41 +0000

Ocean power technology is getting popularity. It can be more effective then solar PV system. 24 X 7 out put is what we get out of it. Specially in monsoon where solar is not efficient this will give maximum out put. Ocean is really a ocean unlimited and un-tapped power, we have to take out what we want from it.