Some Scottish industrial designers fell in love with the curves of floating jellyfishes. Usually, every will freak out; this time, it’s different.
Why? Because the result of this love is a fantastic power plant that can convert the waves up-and-down flow into electricity. Currently, a battery of those wave turbines are being tested near the Portuguese coasts; and according to the reports, they simply rock, the average output amount of electricity averages 200kW, a lot higher than other renewable energy power plants.
Usually, we just add those words: “According to its manufacturer”, or “It is claimed that” to warn you, dear readers, about eventual press release frenzy. We won’t break this rule here. It’s Archimedes Wave Swing, the wave turbine manufacturer, that has done the analysis and claimed that their device is the world’s most powerful and efficient wave converter.
But the device is still impressive. Its system could last 10 to 15 years without any maintenance needed. Under stormy conditions, when sea bottoms are getting as wild as the water surface, it can lower to about 18 meters under, to decrease wave perturbation. And when left as usual, the 10-meter diameter floater should not bug disturb fishers and fishes that much.
“According to” Archimedes, the Portuguese grid will be the first to welcome electricity coming from those artificial jellyfishes. If things go right, Scotland and England should also get some of those.
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