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New Turbine to Harness Wave Power

Posted July 30, 2008 8:34 AM

From BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition:

A turbine designed to be the forerunner of the UK's first commercial wave power station has been officially switched on in Argyll and Bute. The device on Islay was set in motion by Scottish Energy Minister and local MSP Jim Mather. Inverness-based Wavegen plans to install 40 of the turbines off Siader on Lewis in the Western Isles.

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Re: New Turbine to Harness Wave Power

07/31/2008 9:08 PM

Good idea, because it is a shore-based installation of the equipment.

This interesting turbine runs in either direction, from the air compressed or rarefied, as the wave height surges up and down in a shore-based concrete structure.

Easy to work on, minimal corrosion problems too.

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