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| Massive floating solar power plant is making waves |
| 2025-03-20 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 wave power looks great on paper and small scale tests and installations have gone ok scaling up has been a major challenge as big projects mess up fishing recreation and navigation also the ocean has all kinds of irregularities, large isolated waves, cross directional waves and of course salt water is pretty nasty to many materials finally getting the energy gathered and moved to shore has been difficult and the O&M costs of these systems has been much more than hoped |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-03-20 14:08 |
| #7 Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems there is more opportunity for wave power generation than wind turbine power generation. It seems too simple. Must be more money in tax deductions and land grabs for the wind power and turbine industries. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-20 13:57 |
| #6 List of [active] wave power stations List of tidal power stations |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-20 13:49 |
| #5 When I was living in Hawai'i List of wave power projects |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-20 13:45 |
| #4 This plant is inland and integrated with some reservoirs so it might be augmented with pumped storage (I can't tell). The environmental impact is pretty significant and not discussed. It basically changes the ecology of the lake and makes it a different type of lake with much less oxidation, much less sunlight. Probably a non starter in the USA or EU. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-03-20 11:53 |
| #3 When I was living in Hawai'i, there was talk about using wave action of the surf to generate electricity. Never heard of it actually being tried. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2025-03-20 10:15 |
| #2 They did this once before; it functioned sorta meh, until a typhoon blew it to hell. You'da thought they'd have a plan for, you know, weather. Kinda like the solar array down by Lake Jackson. Worked well enough until the hail storm and tornado. Then they're out with vaccuum cleaners trying to get all the pieces. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-03-20 09:06 |
| #1 Not only mechanical wear from the ocean action, but sea water corrosion. Who's going to clean the panels? I can't even clean my windows. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-20 00:18 |