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Giant Underwater Buoy Generates Power From Waves

The Archimedes Waveswing is a 50-ton buoy from AWS Energy that’s spent the last six months generating power off the Scottish coast. The company says the device has surpassed its expectations by 20%. Related video: World’s most powerful tidal turbine: Orbital 02 Andy on Twitter: @theandyaltman Subscribe to CNET: Never miss a deal again! See…

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  1. Abel_Arriola

    November 13, 2022 at 1:39 pm

    Reminds me of solar panels. The cost of maintaining vs production.

  2. OrthOrngN42

    November 13, 2022 at 1:43 pm

    Thanks moon!

  3. EyesOfByes

    November 13, 2022 at 1:53 pm

    Future fortunes this

  4. JogBird

    November 13, 2022 at 1:53 pm

    every part of the world is gonna have to figure out what wroks for them, this wouldnt work in the middle of a desert

  5. miiqbalrama

    November 13, 2022 at 1:55 pm

    I was thought it was AWS servers by amazon 😂

  6. Mary Weber

    November 13, 2022 at 1:58 pm

    Hope the use it for good not evil

  7. Wo Thinker

    November 13, 2022 at 2:10 pm

    but i just worried about the ecosystem balance

  8. sanjuansteve

    November 13, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    I had this idea back in the 90’s.
    Imagine a floating pier with a hotel, restaurants, etc that takes advantage of both waves as well as tide change to generate power.

  9. Bobby

    November 13, 2022 at 2:29 pm

    Y’all better chill before you piss Namor off..

  10. Susie Stogsdill

    November 13, 2022 at 2:30 pm

    I still think we’d need to be VERY cognizant of what we could be doing to the ocean…the sea life, the crap the machines put out, etc.

    • Cherished Cat Lover

      November 13, 2022 at 9:01 pm

      Yeah,. But we all already Know, People don’t Care about ANYTHING Except their own Agendas & Life etc.. Humans rather Destroy our World & Planet than Help or Save it.. Even in the Name of “It’s Better For Our World”..

    • John Lauro

      November 13, 2022 at 9:05 pm

      These should be pretty much self contained and not put out crap. That said, this would take a lot of kinetic energy out of the waves and who knows what kind of side effects that could cause if done at large scale.

  11. h7opolo

    November 13, 2022 at 2:34 pm

    wave energy, finally. good work. let’s go.

  12. h7opolo

    November 13, 2022 at 2:35 pm

    get your generators running

  13. Tore Lund

    November 13, 2022 at 2:36 pm

    10 Kilowatts is plenty for an American home, that would be 240 kWh per day, far more than any home uses.

  14. M T

    November 13, 2022 at 2:48 pm

    How about Corrosion, breakdowns and getting run over by large ships? Or is that like the $10,000 electric car battery that we shouldn’t talk about?

  15. Nick Gangadis

    November 13, 2022 at 3:01 pm

    Interesting device but energy saving? How much energy is needed for the whole infrastructure of this industry? Imo, the only type of energy with positive gain output is fusion.

  16. Alfonso Rivera-Moctezuma Jr

    November 13, 2022 at 3:39 pm

    I like the concept, interesting to see how far they will go with it. Water volume is dense and to see them utilize the motion of this dense liquid per planetary motion is intuitive. Although water can be very cold, crushing and corrosive, looking forward to a day that this idea could supplement future electric grid if not act as a contingency to our standard electric infrastructure.

  17. Paul G

    November 13, 2022 at 3:52 pm

    Is it 10KW generated per hr or per day? 10KW can power average home for a day.

    • Zak Hawthorne

      November 14, 2022 at 4:02 pm

      You understand that a watt is a measure of power and not energy right?

      I.e. 10kW is 10,000 J/s

  18. Dave Freeman

    November 13, 2022 at 3:56 pm

    “Guys we need renewable, sustainable energy to save the planet from the devastating effects we are causing by burning fossil fuels!”

    *Develops creative solution to harvest energy from the ocean.

    “uHh, LeT’s uSE tHiS tO MiNe fOR fOsSiL fUEls”

  19. The Transformation Channel

    November 13, 2022 at 5:08 pm

    I think it’s a great ideal for future energy source.

  20. Haitian Refugee

    November 13, 2022 at 6:36 pm

    Can you imagine needing 1 of these for every home(best case 1 for every 5 homes :)? Talk about sea level rise with the water displacement….smh Just think about the amount of maintenance needed to keep the barnacles off the piston. What a joke!

  21. Rob B

    November 13, 2022 at 8:11 pm

    Wow, what a great idea!

  22. gorrilaunit99

    November 13, 2022 at 8:26 pm

    *The logo looks so apocalyptic* 😭😂

  23. Desu VR

    November 13, 2022 at 9:04 pm

    I just hope governments or power providers aren’t gonna find a BS reason to block technology like this that’s gonna solve rising energy costs. We need this TODAY.

    • Zak Hawthorne

      November 14, 2022 at 4:09 pm

      @Greg Kramer Presumably this is test scale, which explains the low power output.

    • Greg Kramer

      November 14, 2022 at 9:07 pm

      @Zak Hawthorne I guess we will see. It seems like one with 10x the size may cost more than 10x. Hard to say at this time.

    • Zak Hawthorne

      November 14, 2022 at 9:12 pm

      @Greg Kramer There have been other attempts at this style of wave energy converter. But the companies always go out of business since it costs so much to go to full scale. Hopefully one day the economics will work out.

      If you’re interested in Wave energy though, look into oscillating water columns. They very well might be the best candidate.

    • Greg Kramer

      November 14, 2022 at 11:18 pm

      @Zak Hawthorne They are interesting also. For some areas they may be great. In the US we have room for solar which is getting pretty hard to beat from a pricing perspective.

    • Zak Hawthorne

      November 14, 2022 at 11:44 pm

      @Greg Kramer yeah It really depends where you are. Some places have very good wave potential and may even be able to be coupled with offshore wind

  24. George W

    November 14, 2022 at 1:25 am

    great idea. Would like to see them applied it to car’s suspensions while driving to generate electricity to the HEV/PHEV/EV battery pack and recovering additional electricity when breaking.

    • Antero Mano

      November 14, 2022 at 1:59 pm

      Yes, and roads made of holes for extra power

    • George W

      November 14, 2022 at 2:06 pm

      @Antero Mano imagine how fuel efficient a large vehicle would be if they apply your idea! Maybe no more road tax since no road repair is needed😉

  25. Greg Kramer

    November 14, 2022 at 1:33 am

    It looks fairly expensive for 10kw 😞

  26. Mike Ford

    November 14, 2022 at 1:44 am

    Nice to see this working and going beyond expectations 👍 better than those ugly bird killing wind turbines.

    • Zak Hawthorne

      November 14, 2022 at 6:48 pm

      @Mike Ford Although to make it easier , this is the contents of the table:

      Buildings 100m
      Hunters 100m
      Vehicles 60-80m
      Communication towers 10-40m
      Pesticides 67m
      Power lines 0.01-174m
      Wind turbines 0.15m

    • Mike Ford

      November 14, 2022 at 6:53 pm

      @Zak Hawthorne what’s this got to do with turbines numb nuts. The under sea turbine doesn’t kill wild life wind turbines do. Get it now numb nuts.

    • Zak Hawthorne

      November 14, 2022 at 7:22 pm

      @Mike Ford Your original comment was about wind turbines killing birds…. Maybe you can’t remember that far back

    • Mike Ford

      November 14, 2022 at 7:32 pm

      @Zak Hawthorne the blog is about a new underwater turbine my comment was mentioning how better it is to wind turbines and not killing birds you numb nuts. Your comparison to buildings etc makes no sense to the blog at all with your list of nonsence lol. You really are a real numb nut. Stick to the blog and not your of the wall comments.

    • Zak Hawthorne

      November 14, 2022 at 7:46 pm

      @Mike Ford You mentioned that wind turbines kill birds, I provided evidence they don’t kill many compared with other sources.

      What blog are you talking about? this is a youtube video.

      You were wrong, deal with it “numb nuts”.

  27. Julie Gyong

    November 14, 2022 at 2:49 am

    This is where all the money ought to be invested. Not in the crypto coin craps.

  28. Paul Adams

    November 14, 2022 at 3:42 am

    Fantastic

  29. roguedogx

    November 14, 2022 at 3:46 am

    So, I’ve been doing my own research into this, and I’ve found that the exact numbers vary a lot with sea conditions. the most common wave type I was looking into (1-3 foot waves with a 3-4 second period) are just below solar panels (about 70%) for energy potential per unit area, assuming minimal losses. but those numbers rise quickly with taller waves or a faster period.

    It’s hard to see here, but it looks like the cross sectional area here looks to be in the neighborhood of about 12 feet in diameter, so that’s around 10 meters squared, or about on par with solar panels, before losses and ignoring interference distance. which is pretty good.

  30. Brady

    November 14, 2022 at 5:14 am

    I have that same lamp

  31. spkumar2004

    November 14, 2022 at 7:29 am

    It’s very good tech that we require to meet our current and future demands, how about the heat dissipated and transfer to water by these devices, I am thinking about millions of such devices.

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  33. Shashank Degloorkar

    November 14, 2022 at 1:53 pm

    A giant octopus throws this in anger on a pirate ship 🐙

  34. Jason Flyte

    November 14, 2022 at 5:41 pm

    Would like to see a similar video about Oscilla Power who has a great design for wave energy capture

  35. kilgore farms

    November 14, 2022 at 6:48 pm

    obviously not going to change the world, but a good option for some remote power needs.

  36. Mark Kurtis

    November 14, 2022 at 11:46 pm

    Been an idea with little motivation at least since the 70’s when it was my brother-in-law’s middle school science project.
    And… powering undersea oil rigs… what? I thought we were killing the oil industry.

  37. ROB86079

    November 15, 2022 at 1:07 am

    ☢️ power tho…

  38. Danarius M.

    November 15, 2022 at 8:25 am

    It looks like a jellyfish.

  39. Sathish Yadav

    November 15, 2022 at 10:42 am

    500 KW for 50 metric tonnes, it is best for some specialized industrial purposes

  40. ScenicFilms

    November 15, 2022 at 3:23 pm

    Have you heard of another company that’s using break waters to generate energy? I believe they’re working on the northern coast of the Mediterranean. I’d like to hear your take on it, and any opinions you may have.

  41. Tina Marie woehler

    November 16, 2022 at 12:53 pm

    Ok.
    So you can have a wave.
    And if something hinders it.
    The wave is no more
    Not a good idea

    • Tina Marie woehler

      November 16, 2022 at 12:54 pm

      Only if your trying to destroy the world is this a good idea.

  42. Tina Marie woehler

    November 16, 2022 at 12:55 pm

    I f I remember. One company had the idea of putting out nasty trash into space
    Mal idea too.

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