Reply #13: It's surely either a strawman or hyperbole, but there's plenty of room [View All]

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for sarcasm to target.

Kris was insisting just a few weeks ago that wave power is really based on mature well-understood technologies and essentially OTS parts... and that new plants would be popping up with a number of commercially viable options within five years. Insisted that anyone who didn't think so was obviously biased.

This is at least the second example of a new wave-powered generator that didn't last more than a month or two of actual operation.

I'm not saying that this isn't a good idea. I'm all for throwing a BUNCH of money at developing wave power. I'm just far more rational about my expectations. There's quite a bit of "growing pains" like this to go through before it's ready for prime time.