Harnessing the power of ocean waves for energy
By Michaelyou
@Michaelyou (182)
China
May 14, 2010 10:23am CST
Denmark generates a fifth of its electricty from wind power, Germany is a golbal leader in solar technology and Iceland heats huge numbers of homes with geothermal energy. Could Britain match the achievements of its neighbors in renewable energy by harnessing the power of the waves along its abundant coastline?
Marine power is the newest form of zero-carbon energy, winning attention from investors and governments, with wave farms in development in countries including Portugal and Australia.
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
14 May 10
I think its great and I encourage use and research of natural resources. I do not think they should be mandated though. But i think anytime you can harness that energy s great!
@Michaelyou (182)
• China
17 May 10
Hi there,
Thank you very much for your response!
I can't agree with you more that harnessing should not be mandated. But whatever, resource is resource, it is so limited for us to harnes now. I am sorry for that and evrn harnessing stuff can't get all the countries be involved in.
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@zed_k4 (17589)
• Singapore
14 May 10
I think in time, there will be more sophisticated technology, especially gearing towards eco-friendly environment. In time, perhaps other countries might be able to follow through with this achievement..
@Michaelyou (182)
• China
17 May 10
Hi there,
Thanks for your response!
Perhaps other countries might be able to follow through with this achievement...but how hard it is to put it into practice. There are a lot of developing countries in the world, and being called "developing" means that these countries is having the problems with agriculture, economic, and education...that means they have no enough power to do good in environment protection. I don't think they are right or not, just the fact. In a word, ideas maybe easy to be found, but when to do it? Never known!
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@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
30 Jul 10
Interesting new idea. I have watch an episode in Discovery Channel that explains this technology and I think it is in its infancy and is not yet applied on s full scale operation unlike the solar, and wind technology. I have not seen yet but all are proposals as of now. But I think these three can be applied to where I am living since We are a small country surrounded by wide coastal areas and since were an island country wind is a good source as well. I have seen in one of my provinces that they have applied this technology and powers several small villages nearby. With us being located near the equator sunshine is almost available 12 months a year. We only have two seasons, Wet and Dry and between these two seasons sun is always available and only few instances do we have cloudy or no sun during the year.
But all of these sadly has not been tapped by any businessman or the government itself. I do not know what the reasons are in all of these things but I think if there is only one soul that would risk in this technology I think we would never have energy crisis at all.
@Michaelyou (182)
• China
17 May 10
Hi there,
The idea of using clean, renewable energy is great. However, I don't quite watch you about the hot air in Washington D.C.. And what do you mean by that? What is the situation in Washington, D.C.?
@trruk1 (1028)
• United States
17 May 10
"Hot air" is term used in the U.S. for the posturing and sounding off by politicians. They say a lot, but most of it does not mean anything. They use key words like "progress" and "moving forward" when they want to make noise but do not have anything to say.
