Ocean energy, also known as marine energy, is renewable power generated from the motion of ocean waves, currents, and tides.
Soon, marine energy could power Jenny along with seafaring robots used in marine research, buoys that monitor for dangerous tropical storms, booming offshore industries that make up, and eventually, in part, the U.S. electrical grid. But no marine energy technology has achieved commercial success — yet.
“There was still a big piece missing,” said Rebecca Fao, a research engineer in NREL’s water power technology group. “We still couldn’t fully emulate the conditions that these devices will experience when they go offshore.” Together, the two tools can help accelerate the development of ocean-bound technologies, including marine energy devices as well as offshore wind turbines and floating solar panels, saving developers time, money, and reducing risk as they develop the renewable energy technologies needed to build a 100% clean energy future., for example, on how much energy their devices might produce and how well they could handle the ocean’s big, volatile waves.
True to its name, a wave tank is a shallow chamber used to create waves. NREL’s is about 45 feet long — about the length of three cars parked in a row — 8 feet wide, and a little more than 4 feet deep. Though it is nowhere near the size of, which is used to study tsunamis, it is plenty big enough to test miniaturized wave energy prototypes.
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