The
DoE
money
comes
via
Northwest
Energy
Innovations
in
Oregon,
which
is
collaborating
on
the
project
to
more
effectively
harness
the
complex
water
movements
experienced
in
ocean
deployment.
The
concept,
a
‘point
absorber’
wave
power
device
described
as
having
“special
characteristics”,
was
hatched
by
Industrial
Research
Limited
(IRL).
It
is
being
advanced
through
a
tie-up
with
Power
Projects
as
part
of
the
Wave
Energy
Technology
New
Zealand
(Wet-NZ)
research
and
development
programme.
"The
technology
is
different
from
other
wave
energy
converters
in
that
the
machine
is
anchored
to…
