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Watch These Floaters Turn Waves Into Electricity 🌊⚡
We spoke to the co-founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power to learn about how their floaters convert waves into energy. Subscribe to CNET: Never miss a deal again! See CNET’s browser extension 👉 Follow us on TikTok: Follow us on Instagram: Follow us on Twitter: Like us on Facebook: #Waves #Energy #Power
Stephen Chen
November 20, 2022 at 3:57 pm
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November 20, 2022 at 4:10 pm
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s pharr
November 20, 2022 at 4:26 pm
You could put them off the east and left coast of America
People will love it
Tom Tom
November 20, 2022 at 4:31 pm
Awesome. Can’t call it a floater though.
chemjam
November 21, 2022 at 12:29 am
Well it’s not a sinker…
THE Marineman
November 20, 2022 at 5:05 pm
Maybe there is hope after all 🙂 what an innovation
Jason Butler
November 22, 2022 at 11:58 am
Maybe for turning on your tree lights at Christmas.
Jason Zak
November 20, 2022 at 6:47 pm
So is CNET trying to steal the ‘N’ from the Apple News logo? lol
P C
November 20, 2022 at 8:33 pm
Great keep going
Mohammed Alshehhi
November 20, 2022 at 8:40 pm
Salt + 1 year
Relax Your Mind
November 20, 2022 at 9:14 pm
כבוד
Nathan Larson
November 20, 2022 at 10:32 pm
I’d love to see more of them!
xJuiCYxxJaYx
November 20, 2022 at 11:52 pm
way too bulky and looks like we would have to recycle cars to build these. I think current tech used to harvest water energy is good enough
oid bio
November 21, 2022 at 12:58 am
The floaters look like they are metal. Seems like they should be made of fiberglass since sea water is so corrosive to metal.
oid bio
November 21, 2022 at 1:02 am
I’m down for having those things. 50% ain’t too bad. They said one floater powers 10 households. What if those households have electric cars? And can we use the electricity for electrolysis instead so that we can make clean hydrogen from the water also.
MadsterV
November 21, 2022 at 2:33 am
or water-powered desalination
oid bio
November 21, 2022 at 3:54 am
@MadsterV wow….that’s an excellent idea! Especially in California where there are droughts all the time and major coastal ag production
Infinite Digital & Print Services
November 22, 2022 at 6:46 am
They said a floater generated 10kilo watts.
A bit unfair to ask them if it will cover electric cars as it is all dependant eg if the electric car was used every day to its maximum range every day it will need 7x more than if the car was only topped up every week.
If you know how many kilowatt hours the house you are thinking of uses then you can get a fair estimate of the number of households.
Storing hydrogen is an issue, it is the smallest molecule so can leak through the gaps in-between other molecules and can leave the earth’s atmosphere.
Regenerating aluminium would allow you to have hydrogen on demand without electricity rather than stored.
oid bio
November 22, 2022 at 6:53 am
@Infinite Digital & Print Services
Unfair? That’s silly. What’s the definition of a household then? Don’t be an idiot. We are always talking about averages in these situations. You should know that.
Jorge Egroj
November 21, 2022 at 1:56 am
Anything to get away from fossil fuels, especially oil
MadsterV
November 21, 2022 at 2:34 am
While it looks neat, I’m sure it’s instantly dwarfed by nuclear.
Seriously, we need to go back to nuclear. The modern, safe kind.
Coolmtn
November 21, 2022 at 3:22 am
Seems like little gain for what it takes but not sure
Rube Hayseed
November 21, 2022 at 4:32 am
Someone’s gonna complain that they’re eyesores and ruin it for everyone.
Ramón Castillo
November 21, 2022 at 6:54 am
Ten years ago I had the opportunity to achieve a study to optimizing a wave energy converter quite similar to this one, but we could not get financiation to build it. I am glad that our idea was not so crazy and someone else can bring it to the reality.
kilgore farms
November 21, 2022 at 1:45 pm
what does the phrase “renewable energy” even mean? The energy itself is just that – energy. It’s not “renewable” no matter how you split it. The device isn’t “renewable” either. Its gonna rust out and be tossed in the landfill soon as well. Modular nuclear powerplants are where its at. I like the idea of harvesting energy from earth processes, but their usefulness extends to edge cases. We either need to develop highly efficient sources of mass power (i.e. nuclear) or go back to horse and buggy. Seems anything in-between is just 6th grade science experiments.
Anthony Lockly
November 21, 2022 at 6:26 pm
I love to see this technology tested in Wisconsin, along the shores of Lake Michigan.
Daniel Turner
November 22, 2022 at 12:25 am
can you possibly get your camera people to hold the camera steady for long enough to actually see it? and if they can do that, can you get your editors to not cut away to a different shaky shot after 1.5 seconds?
Mohamed Mabrouk
November 22, 2022 at 6:47 am
Egyptian Red Sea is not good enough. No big waves. Egyptian Mediterranean is certainly a good place to have.
mootsmanuva
November 22, 2022 at 10:32 am
Looking forward to this technology coming to Wichita, Kansas.
Jason Butler
November 22, 2022 at 11:56 am
Industrial civilisation is unsustainable, sorry. The sooner we adapt to that reality the less traumatic the transition will be. Many will profit from grifting onto the denial of that fact, unless we destroy ourselves first.
Ozner Riznick
November 22, 2022 at 3:48 pm
Awsome idea!
When waves are smaller, a wave generating chamber could create larger waves by filling and releasing water passively using a free moving vertical butterfly valve system.
Carlos Rebelo
November 22, 2022 at 6:01 pm
Like Paul C. Sachse Jr. said, looks quite probably a maintenance huge regular cost. And I add to that, what about tides? No explanation is given on that, but they seem to be fixed structures. Consider 2 metres water level difference there times a day and one wonders how the system can perform and thus influencing eficiency.