World’s first grid-connected wave power station switched on in Australia, supplies desalinated water [View all]
Sciencealert.com MYLES GOUGH 23 FEB 2015
The world’s first grid-connected wave power station has been activated off the coast of Western Australia (WA). After more than a decade of testing and demonstrations, Australian company Carnegie Wave Energy has switched on a pilot project that has begun feeding wave-generated electricity into a local WA grid.
“This is the first array of wave power generators to be connected to an electricity grid in Australia and worldwide,” said Ivor Frischknecht, CEO of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, in a statement. The Agency has provided $13 million of the $32 million project.
The company’s technology named CETO after a Greek goddess of the sea converts ocean swell into zero-emission renewable power and zero-emission desalinated freshwater.
The company says its system is “different from other wave energy devices as it operates under water where it is safer from large storms [and corrosion] and invisible from the shore”.
The round, submerged buoys are tethered to seabed pump units, which are installed at a depth of between 25 and 50 metres. Waves crashing into the buoys drive the pumps, which push pressurised seawater through a pipeline beneath the ocean floor to an onshore hydroelectric power station. Here, the high-pressure water drives a turbine and generates electricity...snip
http://www.sciencealert.com/world-s-first-grid-connected-wave-power-station-switched-on-in-australia
$13 Million Dollars? The US spends almost $20 MILLION DOLLARS PER HOUR just on the wars and "homeland security" https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Existing Worldwide Desalination facilities and facilities under construction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Existing_facilities_and_facilities_under_construction
Seawater desalination in Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater_desalination_in_Australia
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