Yeah. Turns out a lot of those cheap simple solutions are expensive and complicated.
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This is actually old tech. There’s an oscillating wave power generator in Orkney that is bidirectional and uses a Wells Turbine to only have a single turbine in the flow. It’s not as efficient as a unidirectional turbine though as it relies on the moving air hitting the moving aerofoil to give enough angle of attack to turn the turbine.
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'Tasmania’s King Island is the sight of the first OWC machine. ’
Just because spellcheck doesn’t tell you it’s wrong, that doesn’t mean it’s right.
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I kind of like, “spill chuck doesn’t write all rings”.
Typed that in and never got one of those squiggly red underlines.
i wonder if the pylon of a wind turbine would be a decent place to house a wave power generator like this. you have the infrastructure of cables and concrete, so even if it’s not hugely efficient it still adds some additional output to the overall setup.
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Probably in some locations but I think most ocean-based wind turbines are far enough out at sea that they don’t typically experience a lot of wave action.
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