Why Wave Energy is the Final Frontier of Renewable Energy

With the Earth’s atmosphere being effectively just a less dense fluid than the oceans around us, it’s reasonable to ask why we got wind turbines and wind mills quite literally …. Why Wave Energy is the Final Frontier of Renewable Energy. In a recent video by [Giordano Scarciotti] this issue with wave power is addressed, in particular the massive engineering challenges involved.

Internal view of the CorPower Ocean wave turbine buoy. For wave energy there’s no such one-design-fits-all solution, with each attempted design having its own advantages and disadvantages that may prevent it from working in various sites, or incur high maintenance costs in the highly abusive marine environment. Having more energy in waves than in wind is also both a benefit and a curse, as wave turbines have to work with the waves and not get demolished every time there’s a storm.

Even wind turbines regularly fail in windy weather when e.g. The brakes fail, under conditions that would be considered mild in a marine context. Also covered in the video is a new contender, in the form of CorPower Ocean’s new buoy-like design that bobs up and down on the surface.