Revolutionizing Renewable Energy: The Wave-Engine Innovation

[Pust]

Hello guys
Some years ago, i "invented" this machine to make power out of waves in the ocean. So far no one else had come up, with total same ideer as i. What do you think, is it realistic to make it work?

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[DrClaude]

You should describe how it works. Does "updraft 1" bob up and down, turning the generator?

Have you tried to calculate how much power you could get? How does it compare to/differ from existing wave power generators?

 

[berkeman]

And it seems like it would be more efficient to have the two floats on the surface, and kept 1/2 wavelength apart. Have you calculated the difference in efficiency between your scheme and other wave energy harvesting schemes? The ones that are actually built and operating in ocean trials are probably among the most efficient possible so far...

 

[CWatters]

As I understand it the wavelength and height of waves varies a lot so one design objective is to make it work efficiently under all conditions

 

[Pust]

I am not the big mathematician. But my thought is. if there is only one updraft. The one is limited in between, its own weight, and gravity to make energy. In this model, you can fill both with air, which cost much lesser to produce, and the model can produce limitless mass of energy multiplied with an half(in theory) but it will pull the generator equal both ways. some of the "limit" will be the wave high and wave top, but then again, you just make bigger pontoons which is not very expensive..

 

[Pust]

A correction; I write: "The one is limited in between, its own weight, and gravity to make energy" I mean between its own weight/gravity and upraft.