Wave power reborn

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2918, 2013, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • Wave power is to get another bite of the cherry when a commercial wave farm opens off the coast of Italy next month. The farm, the first of its kind, will use an approach that eschews the heavy swells favoured by previous systems and aims to make it possible--and cheap--to harness the surf along previously unviable coasts. Wave energy companies have typically focused on the most energetic seas--off the wild coasts of Scotland, for example. But Michele Grassi, founder of London-based wave energy company 40South Energy, says this means building expensive, bulky platforms which can survive powerful storms. In contrast, 4OSouth's machine does not try to endure extreme conditions--it hides beneath them.