{"id":135843,"date":"2022-02-19T19:23:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T03:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-window-into-the-future-of-wave-energy"},"modified":"2022-02-19T19:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T03:23:05","slug":"a-window-into-the-future-of-wave-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-window-into-the-future-of-wave-energy","title":{"rendered":"A Window Into the Future of Wave Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H2HoI0LMqqc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Award Helps Move Cost-Effective, Productive, Robust Wave Energy Design a Step Closer to Commercialization and Widespread Use<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 1974, Stephen Salter, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2015\/11\/07\/waving-good-buy\">sent his \u201cducks\u201d into the Scottish seas<\/a>, launching the world\u2019s first major wave energy project. But the ocean\u2019s rough heaves and surges proved too much for his house-sized, floating generators. Like the more recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.power-technology.com\/projects\/pelamis\/\">Pelamis\u2019 P-750 model<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emec.org.uk\/about-us\/wave-clients\/aquamarine-power\/\">Aquamarine\u2019s Oysters<\/a>, they succumbed to the power they were meant to harness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to ask ourselves,\u201d said Krish Thiagarajan Sharman, the endowed chair in renewable energy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, \u201cwhy have we been working on this for so long? Why don\u2019t we have grid-ready, commercial-scale wave energy systems out in the world?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award Helps Move Cost-Effective, Productive, Robust Wave Energy Design a Step Closer to Commercialization and Widespread Use In 1974, Stephen Salter, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, sent his \u201cducks\u201d into the Scottish seas, launching the world\u2019s first major wave energy project. But the ocean\u2019s rough heaves and surges proved too much for his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}