The company’s concept uses a modular array of steel floats hinged to piston-equipped arms that pump a working fluid via a subsea umbilical pipeline to an onshore generator in time with the rise and fall of incoming waves.
EWP has engineered the machine – which was put through its paces with differently shaped “Wave Clapper” and “Power Wing” floats – to be attached to existing shoreline structures, such as sea walls, breakwaters and piers, to get around the complexities and costs of building foundations on the ocean floor.
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