Showing posts with label pelamis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pelamis. Show all posts

Monday, February 23, 2009

Ride the wave



The bulk of the U.S. population lives on the coasts. We really should be investigating more wave-power projects such as the one above.

The video is of a Pelamis wave generator. The first commercial wave farm was started in September 2008 off the coast of Portugal. It can generate up to 2.25 megawatts, or enough to power 1,500 Portuguese homes.