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Wave Energy with Jan Skjoldhammer

Climate Changers

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How to Harness Wave Energy?

There are many sources or systems which have been in development stages for wave energy, but so far very few have succeeded. Some of them are extracting energy by the particles in the waves going forth and back or up and down. The other ones like ours is by the laws of Archimedes with air in the water which then is pressed upwards. And how do you actually anchor the buoys to the C4? Well our system is used like this. It's a large rectangular float in our first edition 38 meters long times 8 times 4 meters. It leaves 600 tons in a wave of 4 meters. In the middle there's a cylinder and the piston rod goes down to the C floor.

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