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Eco Wave Power launches first megawatt-scale wave energy project in Portugal (www.waterpowermagazine.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How many Mega Watts is the wave power itself? The whole project is only 20MW. A wind turbine is between 2 and 16MW depending on the size, so sounds like this would be equivalent to a few wind turbines?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Presumably while winds are intermittent, tides are constant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Have they considered implementing this technology in Mexican football stadiums?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The main question with these things is how long they last. The sea is unforgiving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure what challenges wave power faces that tidal doesn't, but the Rance tidal power station in France has been operating since 1966.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The sea is unforgiving

That's not true, I peed in the sea once but we're friends again now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Try the same in a storm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If I were in the sea in the middle of a storm, I wouldn't have to try

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how much the total energy is in the tidal waves worldwide.