The
WaveStar,
the
brainchild
of
a
Brøndby-based
company
of
the
same
name
set
up
by
brothers
Niels
and
Keld
Hansen,
is
built
around
a
self-erecting
jack-up
platform
with
banks
of
hemispherical
floats
that
drive
a
hydraulic
generation
system.
A
scale-model
“test
section”
of
the
device
has
been
running
off
Hanstholm
in
the
Danish
North
Sea
for
the
past
two
years.
Calculations
suggest
that
180
of
the
full-sized
600kW
prototype
WaveStar
C5s
installed
in
the
open
sea
between
Horns
Rev
2’s
91
wind
turbines
could
increase
the
development’s
output
from
209MW…
