Interesting Wave Energy video

[chknltl]

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=22638
(also please note the myriad other green energy links and the 'take action' link provided)

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Very cool, thank you for posting. n/t

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2. Was the concept and design stolen from this guy? It looks identical

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Energy from the motion of the ocean
A former surfer designs a buoy that can convert wave motion into electricity.
By Dan Drollette, FSB Magazine
December 15 2006: 10:01 AM EST


(FSB Magazine) -- If you wanted to choose the perfect location for capturing the ocean's energy, you couldn't do much better than the Oregon coast. Waves arrive there with immense power, having traveled across thousands of miles of open water with few barrier islands, reefs or other obstructions to slow them down.

Some are so large that they can be tracked by Satellite days before they arrive. Starting in 2007, those massive, ceaseless waves will help light homes and businesses along the West Coast, thanks to an entrepreneur named George Taylor.

A former surfer who grew up in Australia, Taylor, now 72, studied electrical engineering and spent the past 40 years as a small-business owner in the U.S. His most recent invention is a buoy that can convert a wave's up-and-down motion into electricity, which can be carried ashore by undersea cables and fed into the national power grid.

The buoys get deployed a mile or so offshore, either individually or linked together in a field of a dozen or more covering 30 acres of the ocean's surface. They are also an environmentalist's dream - barely visible from the beach, drawing on an abundant, renewable energy resource, with little or no impact upon marine life and emitting no gases that contribute to global warming. <MORE>

http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/14/magazines/fsb/nextlittlething_wave_power.fsb/index.htm

[chknltl]

3. Huh...sure looks like the same gadget doesn't it.

Not my call to make though. I got this vid from a Care-Too link, I get about 2 requests a day from them, some, like this one, I post here. I would have no idea where the lady got her wave-energy gadget from, but hers DOES look like the same one in your link! FWIW, in the vid, there is a mention of PG&E having an involvement... if memory serves wasn't PG&E involved in the Enron scandal as one of the bad guys??? I am not a promoter of this lady, (only knowing her through this vid) but I confess that the system seems like it has pretty good potential. Still a very cool vid imo.

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4. Let's face it Marconi got credit for inventing wireless telegraphy/radio when it had actually been

...patented several years before by Nicholas Tesla

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html