2008Aug7: Lancaster University professors develop the Anaconda wave energy converter, “a giant rubber tube closed at both ends, filled with water and anchored in the sea with one end facing oncoming waves. It relies on “bulge” waves, which form inside when a passing wave squeezes the tube. As the bulge wave moves down the tube, the wave that caused it runs along the outside at the same speed – making the bulge wave inside grow even bigger. This action turns a power-generating turbine at Anaconda’s far end,” wrote Michael Pollitt in the UK Guardian (UK Guardian, 2008).
Reference: UK Guardian. 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/07/research.waveandtidalpower
Image Description: Anaconda wave energy converter. Image from video file found at Bulgewave.org http://www.bulgewave.com/
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