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lördag 15 november 2008

Wave Power Competition

WaveRoller and WaveDragon, technologies that have been mentioned earlier in this blog, are far from alone in the quest for efficient utilization of the energy generated by waves and tides.
earth2tech providedes a neat summary of 12 other competitors.

tisdag 14 oktober 2008

Wave Power Already Profitable?

According to a study by Olav Olsen A.S. on behalf of Norwegian Langlee Wavepower, wave power technlogy from Langlee and other companies may already profitable in some parts of Europe such as Great Britain, Ireland and Portugal. The reason for this is the high prices of other types of ocean based energy in these countries.

Langlee, partly (10%) owned by Swedish Borevind, is developing a wave power technology that can exploit the energy relatively small waves.
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torsdag 25 oktober 2007

Fortum to acquire shares of wave power company

According to Ny Teknik (in Swedish), Finnish power company Fortum will buy 8.4% of the company AW-Energy. The company work has developed a wave power solution called Wave Roller. In contrast to other wave power solutions, that take advantage of the motion energy at the surface, the WaveRoller concept is focused on generation power from bottom currents. Also covered here