Sentence examples for harnessing wave from inspiring English sources
Harnessing wave power is more complex than the process of converting other renewable energy sources like wind or sun into electricity.
Moreover, the huge multi-billion costs of a new nuclear programme must be compared with what would happen if the same amount of money were spent on promising new technologies such as harnessing wave power.
"The concept of harnessing wave energy isn't new," said Justin Manley, chairman of the Unmanned Maritime Vehicles Committee for the Marine Technology Society, "but the traditional outlook is to convert wave energy into electricity".
But anyone tempted to dismiss his plan as the product of a crank who has spent too much time in the shed would do well to note that Salter was the man behind the Edinburgh Duck, a pioneering 1970s design for harnessing wave energy.
But a central challenge has proven to be the complexity of harnessing wave power, which has led to a host of designs, including writhing snake-like attenuators, bobbing buoys, even devices mounted discreetly on the ocean floor that work by exploiting differences in pressure as a wave passes by.
Sustainable future options might include harnessing wave action or placing solar panels on the surface.
Tom Heap asks if the decades of research into harnessing waves and tides to solve the energy crisis have brought the utopia of a wave-powered Britain any closer.
New technology could provide a way to harness wave energy.
The kinetic energy of the oscillating cylinder is converted to electricity through a linear generator similar to those used to harness wave energy.
Catching waves: A U.K.-based company has come up with a simple design for a device that harnesses wave power: a water-filled rubber tube floating just under the ocean's surface.
A 100kW buoy is also being designed, and within two or three years OPT hopes to link large numbers of these together to build offshore power stations with outputs of between 10MW and 100MW.Previous attempts to harness wave power have involved large and complex structures.
