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How this ‘artificial blowhole’ could make wave energy mainstream

It’s called the UniWave200 and it was recently deployed off the coast of King Island in Tasmania, Australia. To learn more about this deceptively simple piece of technology, and its potentially wide range of applications, I spoke with Wave Swell Energy’s co-founder and Executive Chair Dr. Tom Denniss.

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It’s called the UniWave200 and it was recently deployed off the coast of King Island in Tasmania, Australia. To learn more about this deceptively simple piece of technology, and its potentially wide range of applications, I spoke with Wave Swell Energy’s co-founder and Executive Chair Dr. Tom Denniss.

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  1. Jesse Orrall

    February 23, 2021 at 6:29 pm

    Do you think wave energy will be an important renewable in the future? Are there other futuristic technologies you’d like to see us cover? Please let us know down below!

    • Herbert Pocket

      February 23, 2021 at 9:56 pm

      There’s no way to overcome the corrosive nature of the oceanic environment, and I don’t think wave energy will be a large component of energy generation. If it’s an enhancement of a breakwater like these are and the energy generation is a side thing I can see it happen, but there’s no way a grid can rely on this.

    • CC Rabbitry

      February 23, 2021 at 10:47 pm

      @Herbert Pocket I disagree…. we improve constantly and if we don’t push new innovation we will go no where ….

    • aaron parys

      February 24, 2021 at 9:34 am

      Absolutely…would like to see what is happening with deep water energy projects(hot/cold) ? if it’s still viable..any in the works?

    • Mike Coshan

      February 24, 2021 at 10:41 am

      I think we need to mention smart pavements (sidewalks) and roads where energy is generated by walking and driving on them. On new builds it would be easy to fit in shopping centres (malls) etc also if high rise buildings could have wind turbines on top of them as well as widows with solar cells built into them. If implemented on a large scale then buildings could take a huge load of the national grid

  2. Millionarc

    February 23, 2021 at 8:28 pm

    I don’t know if I missed it but won’t these have an effect on the aquatic ecosystem

    • calsta619

      February 23, 2021 at 10:11 pm

      My concern would be sand, fish etc drifting in the blowhole container and not getting out. Apart from that, it seems fine

  3. VAMobMember

    February 23, 2021 at 8:31 pm

    But wave energy will CAUSE climate change. If the Gulf Current is tapped of the southern coast of USA then the energy it elveres o Britain will be less and that will impact their weather a thus the climate

  4. Chadrick Walker

    February 23, 2021 at 8:31 pm

    At this point I think these people want to destroy all natural ecosystem, the more they try to solve something they create more problems than before

  5. EyesOfByes

    February 23, 2021 at 8:49 pm

    Flood protection and electricity? Sign me up!

  6. WHY

    February 23, 2021 at 8:54 pm

    Great movie! I hope that someday in the future I will get an audience like yours. Please visit my channel, maybe you can advise me something 🙂

  7. Alfred Kossmann

    February 23, 2021 at 9:08 pm

    They mention that the turbine only works one way……so why dont they design the turbine in such a way that they can use both ways but the turbine still spins one way

    • Tom The Bob

      February 23, 2021 at 9:16 pm

      When it sucks air back in, it would generate electricity. So yes it would be better to make the turbine multidirectional.

    • Uncle Jaffar

      February 23, 2021 at 9:32 pm

      @Tom The Bob I think we are about 100 years away from that kind of technology

    • Tom The Bob

      February 23, 2021 at 9:37 pm

      @Uncle Jaffar bruh we have had that technology for awhile now. That’s what regenerative braking is basically. It like if you have a small motor you have a power supply connected to it, you can use the power to spin it one way or, use some other power source to spin it another way which would charge the power supply.

    • Uncle Jaffar

      February 23, 2021 at 9:44 pm

      @Tom The Bob but it’s a TURBINE not a motor, the air pushing up from the waves can only go in one direction, unless you’re going to put automated vents inside the chamber and reverse install another motor inside the chamber then I don’t see how that would work

  8. John Lozo

    February 23, 2021 at 9:12 pm

    Just when you thought you’d like take a look at paradise today.

  9. Uncle Jaffar

    February 23, 2021 at 9:29 pm

    blowhole

    lol

  10. Uncle Jaffar

    February 23, 2021 at 9:33 pm

    they should put a giant rubber ducky around it

  11. Someone In This World

    February 23, 2021 at 10:06 pm

    This is so good for making clean energy! Well done!

  12. Ivan Laws

    February 23, 2021 at 10:16 pm

    Fantastic, Good work, need it everywhere!

  13. Will McKinty

    February 23, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    Looks brilliant to me – break wall that provides electrical power, with very few moving parts – there must be many thousands of loactions where these could be spotted to reduce erosion and provide clean power

  14. CC Rabbitry

    February 23, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    absolutely amazing I love it do more of it …………WAVE WAVE WAVE ENERGY….whoop whoop

  15. maszlagma

    February 23, 2021 at 10:57 pm

    I mean it’s ugly as sin… but sounds cool and necessary.

  16. Ray Watson

    February 23, 2021 at 11:07 pm

    Thanks for this fairly detailed overview of a project close to my home
    There have been years of failed attempts to produce power from waves, all around the world. Hopefully this one will be the exception.
    I would have loved to hear some actual power production figures, and capital costs. Maybe a follow up video on a few months?

  17. 平和

    February 23, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    Looks pretty promising to be honest…

  18. Greg James

    February 23, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    Would love to hear about the unintended consequences

  19. JMillz512

    February 23, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    Who else initially read that wrong?

  20. hks hks

    February 23, 2021 at 11:52 pm

    How much power does it generate?

  21. Antonio Gallaccio

    February 23, 2021 at 11:53 pm

    It’s a great concept but it’s visually polluting the environment.

  22. PlainStev

    February 24, 2021 at 12:10 am

    I recall seeing their concept video awhile ago. Glad there’s an update on it.

  23. Patrick

    February 24, 2021 at 12:18 am

    Like the idea but with all the outcry about how ugly windmills are in the water I could only imagine how the outcry will be with these concrete eyesoars

  24. Bart Pola

    February 24, 2021 at 1:20 am

    Super interesting technology, but I was really hoping to hear some more objective information. How efficient is it compared to bidirectional? How much energy output is there? What is the cost of the structure and cost per kwh at present and what could it get down to with economies of scale in the future? This video has a lot more potential!

  25. Atlantis Mediterranean

    February 24, 2021 at 1:27 am

    Ocean Power Technologies – OPTT – has great potential in this industry, good stock value also.

  26. Sal Zen

    February 24, 2021 at 3:06 am

    No numbers dude!

  27. Anuradha Ranasinghe

    February 24, 2021 at 3:18 am

    I’m from Sri Lanka and I feel that this technology would be the best for island nations near the equator like srilanka and Maldives

  28. MalachiTheBowlingGod

    February 24, 2021 at 3:23 am

    Saw a similar design decades ago!

  29. Abdullah Senani

    February 24, 2021 at 3:31 am

    interesting!

  30. Dallas Mojican Camuyot

    February 24, 2021 at 4:47 am

    No.

  31. 808Island Life

    February 24, 2021 at 7:37 am

    I remember when we started putting up wind turbines in Hawaii. People complained that they were unsightly. I wonder how people would feel about seeing those so close to shore across our pristine beaches ?

  32. aaron acosta

    February 24, 2021 at 8:02 am

    please don’t fill the beaches with these things

  33. Steve Williams

    February 24, 2021 at 8:27 am

    Why don’t they have 2 turbines ?
    One on the outlet and one on the inlet

    • Greg Herzberg

      February 24, 2021 at 3:45 pm

      My thought as well. I can only assume that the net cost curves just didn’t quite produce yield to make it viable, at least, not until the cost per turbine comes down. Perhaps after production ramps up this will change.

  34. aaron parys

    February 24, 2021 at 9:28 am

    Interesting technology…hopefully this works out in the long term…would probably make a great hybrid platform for wind and Solar as well?

  35. Max Powers

    February 24, 2021 at 10:25 am

    Didn’t know Ryan Eggold worked at cnet

  36. Greg Herzberg

    February 24, 2021 at 3:52 pm

    Spinning a turbine directly is interesting but given that the spin is based on a 1/2 wave cycle (pun intended) I wonder how that affects turbine speed during the blank 1/2 of the wave? Is turbine momentum sufficient at all wave periods? I would think/hope that the mechanical transmission between the turbine and the generator compensates for turbine speed but then this makes me wonder about the efficacy of employing a flywheel to keep generator speed steady.

  37. Jesse S

    February 24, 2021 at 7:25 pm

    Where can I invest or help the development of this technology??? Take my money!!!

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