Building Wave Energy in Oregon | ENERGY HORIZONS on SOPBS
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Watch ENERGY HORIZONS on Southern Oregon PBS:
www.pbs.org/sh...
Offshore wind has been getting all the press attention in Oregon lately. But the state has a long history with a different form of ocean energy: wave energy. Researchers from Oregon State University's Pacific Marine Energy Center and the Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory share the latest developments.
What is Energy? Why is it important? How is energy impacting the environment? Are we running out of energy? What can we do next? ENERGY HORIZONS explores technologies including solar, wind, and wave energy generation, and challenges to our electric grid and economy. There are no easy solutions to powering Oregon while addressing climate change and resource depletion - but very smart, engaged and passionate Oregonians are hard at work looking for options.
Love seeing Oregon at the forefront of this research
great insight.
It's like every few minutes this guy realizes how British his accent is getting and quickly tries to americanize it again
Why do you want to take away wave energy? It's the reason that we have such beautiful beaches and sea life. Don't mess with that power source, it's there for a reason. There's no free lunch
The waves are gonna crash regardless. Why not capture the energy?
chill bro. They will not erradicate waves. This would need a 100% energy transition rate, which is impossible. They can be happy when they manage to capture 10% of the energy. The maximum size of such devices and the amount you can place and also need is very limited. If they manage to build lets say 5MW Devices, they only need 200 for a GW that can support up to a Million inhabitans. So at max there will be some thousand of such devices at a size of some meters each. That wont change the coastline and wave patterns significantly.
Worry not..... Windmills are not halting any noticeable amount of wind.
This would be the same concept.
Also, these guys are barely harnessing 40 watts at any time per 1000 lbs of infrastructure. I don't think this is going to get anywhere any time soon, but I genuinely wish them well and hope they manage to achieve something amazing