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Wave Power Experiments and Studies
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Definition
Wave power is the conversion of ocean surface wave energy into useful energy like power generation, etc.
Background Information
- Wave power - Wikipedia [View Resource]
- How Salter's Duck Works [View Resource]
- Wave farm [View Resource]
- Wave technologies: types of devices [View Resource]
- How it works: Wave power station [View Resource]
- Ocean Wave Energy [View Resource]
- Wave power: how it works (Youtube) [View Resource]
- Pelamis Wave Energy Converter [View Resource]
- An Overview of Wave Energy Technologies: Status, Performance and Costs [View Resource]
- What is an Oscillating water column (OWC)? [View Resource]
- The Development of Wave Power [View Experiment]
K-12 Experiments, Labs, Lesson Plans and Science Fair Projects
- Water (Hydro) Energy Science Fair Projects and Experiments [View Experiment]
- Determine if any locations along the coasts of the United States are appropriate for building wave energy power systems [View Experiment]
- Starting to Experiment with Wave Power [View Experiment]
- Let's Make Waves [View Experiment]
- How to Make a Wave Powered Boat [View Experiment]
College Experiments, Labs, Studies and Articles
- Float-counterweight Type Wave Power Generation System: Experiments in Open Sea [View Experiment]
- Experiments on the WavePiston, Wave Energy Converter [View Experiment]
- Conversion of Wave Energy to Magnetic Field Energy in a Plasma Torus [View Experiment]
- Air Turbines forWave Energy Conversion [View Experiment]
- Wave energy utilization in Europe [View Experiment]
- The experimental and theoretical evaluation of a twin-flap wave-energy absorbing device [View Experiment]
Theses and Dissertations
- Analysis and Development of a Three Body Heaving Wave Energy Converter [View Thesis]
- Harnessing of wave power from horizontal flow dynamics of shallow waves [View Thesis]
- Performance Evaluation of Wave Energy Converters [View Thesis]
Patents
- 1975: Stephen Hugh Salter "Apparatus and method of extracting wave energy" - The original "Salter's Duck" patent (US Patent 3928967, 1975) [View Patent]
- 1979: Stephen Hugh Salter "Apparatus for use in the extraction of energy from waves on water" - Salter's method for improving "duck" efficiency (US Patent 4134023, 1975) [View Patent]
- 2001: Piezoelectric rotary electrical energy generator (US Patent 6194815, 2001) [View Patent]
- 2004: Wave energy converters utilizing pressure differences (US Patent 6768216, 2004) [View Patent]
See Also
- Hydropower [View Experiment]
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