Giant Underwater Buoy Generates Power From Waves
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2022
- The Archimedes Waveswing is a 50-ton buoy from AWS Energy that's spent the last six months generating power off the Scottish coast. The company says the device has surpassed its expectations by 20%.
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Such a good buoy
😂
Bestest buoy ever 😍😂
Shame on u😊
you made my day!
Good one! 😀
If anything I'd say this is a great way to supplement existing electricity sources and as a means for a backup in case the power grid goes offline.
We need to start building new Nuclear Power plants again. They are unbeatable.
This video seems to have been made using footage edited together from a variety of source, including ours. As orginators of the footage we own it and have never given anyone permission to use it.
Would like to see a similar video about Oscilla Power who has a great design for wave energy capture
So glad to see that smart people are coming up with these innovative ways to power our lives.
Go For It
Thank you sir. We need lotsa such things all around globe.
Amazing video bro
wave energy, finally. good work. let's go.
Wow, what a great idea!
I had this idea back in the 90's.
Imagine a floating pier with a hotel, restaurants, etc that takes advantage of both waves as well as tide change to generate power.
sounds cool, even doable but infrastructure wise and logistics wise would be a nightmare
10 Kilowatts is plenty for an American home, that would be 240 kWh per day, far more than any home uses.
Great video 👍
Have you heard of another company that’s using break waters to generate energy? I believe they’re working on the northern coast of the Mediterranean. I’d like to hear your take on it, and any opinions you may have.
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I think it’s amazing can’t wait till it’s in commercial use
Amazing 😲
Any article is available on this work?
Fantastic
Reminds me of solar panels. The cost of maintaining vs production.
true but if we dont invest in research then we arnt gonna get good products which is why funding is so crucial
great idea. Would like to see them applied it to car's suspensions while driving to generate electricity to the HEV/PHEV/EV battery pack and recovering additional electricity when breaking.
Yes, and roads made of holes for extra power
@@anteromano5559 imagine how fuel efficient a large vehicle would be if they apply your idea! Maybe no more road tax since no road repair is needed😉
Regen breaking
that would make a car extremely bulky, as it requires a magnet wrapped around a coil of copper to generate the power.
I have that same lamp
I was thought it was AWS servers by amazon 😂
I still think we'd need to be VERY cognizant of what we could be doing to the ocean...the sea life, the crap the machines put out, etc.
These should be pretty much self contained and not put out crap. That said, this would take a lot of kinetic energy out of the waves and who knows what kind of side effects that could cause if done at large scale.
honestly valid response, but as far as im aware it just uses a magnet sent up and down through a copper coil to generate the electricity
All innovation is good, but at this point there are already really attractive and cheap green energy sources.
This is really cool in the aspect of clean energy, I know this is a silly question but how loud are they? Are they interfering with whale pods and how they communicate? What about their migration patterns, have you found a place where they won’t be?
A giant octopus throws this in anger on a pirate ship 🐙
Yes it's animal friendly. And could be used in conjunction with fish farming reefs
The good: more optimal for surviving storms, less wear and tear in a rough sea state. No visual impact. Potential to avoid marine traffic. Potential to adjust power density by adjusting depth.
The bad: Invisible to ships (without sonar). (Collision hazard.). Power density decreases with depth. Fixed depth may not be optimal. Adjustable depth is more complicated.
I f I remember. One company had the idea of putting out nasty trash into space
Mal idea too.
I don't suspect (outside of specialized uses like the ones mentioned) its probably going to be viable. I'd have to dig into it more, but how much materials/cost/etc go into it versus the expected payout in electricity? Also given the degradation they are likely to face being exposed in the ocean, how long will they last before having to be either replaced or retrofitted. Also considering the implicit danger from where these are placed (assuming higher tidal activity being better).
Neat concept though. I am curious why they opted for underwater versus on the surface.
So, I've been doing my own research into this, and I've found that the exact numbers vary a lot with sea conditions. the most common wave type I was looking into (1-3 foot waves with a 3-4 second period) are just below solar panels (about 70%) for energy potential per unit area, assuming minimal losses. but those numbers rise quickly with taller waves or a faster period.
It's hard to see here, but it looks like the cross sectional area here looks to be in the neighborhood of about 12 feet in diameter, so that's around 10 meters squared, or about on par with solar panels, before losses and ignoring interference distance. which is pretty good.
We should be supporting all means of producing power beyond fossil fuels.
Have an indoor pilot test bed and derive the calculated result from the scale
get your generators running
Been an idea with little motivation at least since the 70's when it was my brother-in-law's middle school science project.
And... powering undersea oil rigs... what? I thought we were killing the oil industry.
Interesting, but does it work and how would it be able to deliver it to homes and businesses. Sounds Good?
The math on effective capture of wave energy is simple. A generator should maximize area of ocean surface covered (to maximize energy potential) while being durable, and cheap relative to its ocean coverage. This device may work great. Looks potentially durable. But tiny ocean coverage relative to its weight and therefore it’s cost. Therefore it is far far from competitive as a solution design, and is not the answer.
The tide is coming in for tidal energy. 😋
It looks like a jellyfish.
Nice idea, but probably subject to corrosion. Seawater enters the shaft of the kind of piston pump mechanism. This might occur in very small quantities but seems to be inevitable. It would corrode both piston and bushing. How could such intrusion be avoided?
What does it become when the water is not there? It's there a plan for a bobbing windmill?
It's very good tech that we require to meet our current and future demands, how about the heat dissipated and transfer to water by these devices, I am thinking about millions of such devices.
Nice
500 KW for 50 metric tonnes, it is best for some specialized industrial purposes
SCALING IT is then for everyone!!!!! think big FREE FOR POOR FOLKS as big corps been squashing this for generations , cant stop social media now we take over and BECOME self-sufficient
I love it
Future fortunes this
I like the concept, interesting to see how far they will go with it. Water volume is dense and to see them utilize the motion of this dense liquid per planetary motion is intuitive. Although water can be very cold, crushing and corrosive, looking forward to a day that this idea could supplement future electric grid if not act as a contingency to our standard electric infrastructure.
Interesting... The buoy has solar cells on it.
Is it 10KW generated per hr or per day? 10KW can power average home for a day.
You understand that a watt is a measure of power and not energy right?
I.e. 10kW is 10,000 J/s
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lol
It looks fairly expensive for 10kw 😞
so… shake weight for the sea
Nah let's keep funding solar panels that only last 9 years and leach heavy metals and wind turbines that break down frequently.
every part of the world is gonna have to figure out what wroks for them, this wouldnt work in the middle of a desert
but i just worried about the ecosystem balance
This should be very unobtrusive and self contained.
Use it to power electric boats across the ocean
Not a hazard to navigation at all.
Y’all better chill before you piss Namor off..
portable power supply FROM tide and wave power!!!!!!!! this the future of power generation!!! ive been trying to push this since 1980, always no help, toss small one in at anchor and poof my BOAT HAS LIMITLESS POWER!!!! free POWER!!!!! portable power supply FROM tide and wave power
Very cool 😎,
but i keep thinking about the hydroelectric plant that is the prison in the TV show Andor ( Star Wars ) Disney
That concept is a decade old at least and this example is way too complicated and expensive. The same motion an be achieved with a floater on the waves itself and does not have to be submerged.
Seems a lot of the power of the wave is lost by only extracting energy a one point .. better to take a blade of a wind turbine .. fill it with foam or air and rig it to rise and fall with each wave ..let’s start small ..or maybe a twin system spaced so the drop of one blade combines with the lift of another…wave power is the way to go
There had been so many ideas and probably patents (american style of - i don't know, but i want to block, use drawing, cannot apply cannot implement cannot work. Block first talk later. Steal all credit before any work done. Observe to trick and cheat and put into patent) for so many years but to no real significant progress.
The answer is bouyancy which you are complacent due to snobbishness. Bouyancy of tidal rise-receed can produce torque to spin low weight flywheel very quickly (if high toque with high speed = bearings expensive melting good. Not wrong when use to melt metals or destroy rubbish things by hahaha-compaction or pulveriser or "pneumatic-hydraulic"-press)
Ship ballast is push-pull in-out tidal better.
Submerged flexible connected air-pressure controlled metal platforms of 2 different gauge-layers are better to wring-arms of cranes (2 is a lot better than one when it comes to durability), rocker is oil-well pump-arm.
American lawyers are supporters of ... cannot emigrate.
Street lamp, tram electric rails, monorails, power transmission cables, ...
= cable-car the river-bank to pull(bidirectional along) boat up-down counter-weighted
= infrastructure then add ballast push-pull tidal-generator but not using tide using flow
= paddle wheel, paddle boat, excavator tracks, chain links, ... size big is boat efficiency
Hope the use it for good not evil
Nice to see this working and going beyond expectations 👍 better than those ugly bird killing wind turbines.
The number of birds killed by turbines is small compared with other sources.
Also I think turbines look good.
@@zakhawthorne8442 give an example of other sources numb nuts
@@PeaceAndLove303 Although to make it easier , this is the contents of the table:
Buildings 100m
Hunters 100m
Vehicles 60-80m
Communication towers 10-40m
Pesticides 67m
Power lines 0.01-174m
Wind turbines 0.15m
@@zakhawthorne8442 what's this got to do with turbines numb nuts. The under sea turbine doesn't kill wild life wind turbines do. Get it now numb nuts.
@@PeaceAndLove303 Your original comment was about wind turbines killing birds.... Maybe you can't remember that far back
Ok.
So you can have a wave.
And if something hinders it.
The wave is no more
Not a good idea
Only if your trying to destroy the world is this a good idea.
How about Corrosion, breakdowns and getting run over by large ships? Or is that like the $10,000 electric car battery that we shouldn't talk about?
I just hope governments or power providers aren't gonna find a BS reason to block technology like this that's gonna solve rising energy costs. We need this TODAY.
I would worry about cost. This needs to be able to compete with 10kw from solar which is under $20k
@@gregkramer5588 Presumably this is test scale, which explains the low power output.
@@zakhawthorne8442 I guess we will see. It seems like one with 10x the size may cost more than 10x. Hard to say at this time.
@@gregkramer5588 There have been other attempts at this style of wave energy converter. But the companies always go out of business since it costs so much to go to full scale. Hopefully one day the economics will work out.
If you're interested in Wave energy though, look into oscillating water columns. They very well might be the best candidate.
@@zakhawthorne8442 They are interesting also. For some areas they may be great. In the US we have room for solar which is getting pretty hard to beat from a pricing perspective.
Inefficient and also high maintenance. The moving part exposed to the ocean environment. Thumbs down. I have better ideas.
Interesting device but energy saving? How much energy is needed for the whole infrastructure of this industry? Imo, the only type of energy with positive gain output is fusion.
Fusion is not used at all for electricity. The complexity is huge and the cost is a complete unknown! This is simple.
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Can you imagine needing 1 of these for every home(best case 1 for every 5 homes :)? Talk about sea level rise with the water displacement....smh Just think about the amount of maintenance needed to keep the barnacles off the piston. What a joke!
LET ELON MUSK & TESLA deal with energy issues on earth! Not replica companies of the industries that have NEVER IMAGINED solving problems rather than monetizing the problems!!!
Why do companies such as Apple, and Tesla claim to be green whist being against the right to repair?
Competition stimulates growth and innovation. Rule #1 in business
The way Elon is running Twitter, I wouldn’t trust any company he touches in the future. He’s clearly unhinged!
@@ckcnj9175 you are correct. It was reported by a Twitter release that bankruptcy is on the table. What did Musk do with all the multi-millions the Saudis gave home to close his Twitter purchase.
? hunh? Tesla is a car company. Hundreds of companies now more about energy production than they do!
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