absorber, commonly called a buoy (buoy), which achieves a remarkably high efficiency.
Only one buoy has a power of 250 Kilowatts can produce enough energy to power 200 households, so the potential of an entire park is obvious.
With a width of seven meters, the eastern absorber of the CorPower is smaller in comparison with the respective devices.
The technology is divided into three parts: a wire rope tether that keeps the buoy stable in the upright. A device called WaveSpring, which controls the oscillation of the buoy when the moving waves. Finally, a mechanism for drive transmission which converts the kinetic energy of waves into electrical energy.
The company claims that the floating absorbers is three times more efficient in comparison with the second most efficient technology thanks to the addition of a control system of the oscillation WaveSpring, which maximizes the energy density.
The CorPower argues that such systems of wave energy could meet 20% of the world’s needs in electric energy.
The continuous motion of the waters of the ocean means that, potentially at least, the wave energy could be more efficient than solar or wind energy, which “suffer” from the intermittent nature of their production.
So far, the Swedish company has carried out successful tests of the tank, while at the end of the year will transfer the system to the open sea.
Wave energy: new technology promises miracles
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