This miracle device harvests wave energy and should power 1/3 of the US in near future

We have 332,519,000 cubic miles of water on the planet. That’s a staggering 352,670,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water flowing all over the earth!

A vast majority of this water is contained by the oceans. We can barely imagine how much energy it is holding in terms of perpetually moving waves! If there is a way to harness it, it could provide a clean, green and renewable source of energy. There have been efforts in this direction and mostly by adopting windmill type of strategies. But, these efforts mostly ended with massive corrosion in salt water and problem of maintenance of the moving parts in remote sea.

To alleviate these problems Oscilla Power developed a new technology which directs all kinetic energy towards a solid piece of metal instead of rotating the blades of an impeller. This, in turn, creates an alternating magnetic polarity in the metal which is subsequently converted into electrical current.

Oscilla’s technology, predominantly a solid-state implementation, may eventually prove far more durable than any previous effort. Once implemented, it is supposed to produce power from oceans cleanly and endlessly.

This specific mechanism is called Triton which remains on the ocean surface and generates power from the ever moving source of waves.

“As waves interact with the device, there is an alternating magnetic polarity created in the metal that is used to generate electricity,” informed Meagan Parrish for ChemInfo. “By the use of flexible tethers, themselves enabled by an asymmetric heave plate, Triton uniquely captures energy from heave, pitch, sway and roll motions”.

The basic implementation is a giant, floating, metal plate which is connected to tethers. Tethers generate electricity when they’re pushed around by waves.

Each Triton implementation is expected to generate about 600kW of power which is adequate to supply energy to 500 average homes every month. It is expected that, in its full blown form, this program should cater to 1/3 of the United States’ power requirement and about 15% of global need.

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