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It is common knowledge that the world is facing an energy crisis. If new energy sources are not developed, human civilization would be in serious trouble. One potential energy source, that has been underused until now, is the one created by ocean waves. The World Energy Council estimates that wave power could generate as much as a trillion watts per year – twice the amount of electricity currently produced by two thousand oil, gas, coal, and nuclear power plants.
Wave power has many advantages: wave energy is abundant and renewable; the potential output of wave power generation would meet all the electricity needs of the world; although the initial investment in equipment would be great, the “fuel” is free and non-political; wave power would have a minimal effect on the environment. In the last two hundred years, inventors worldwide have filed patents for a vast number of devices that make use of wave power, such as rocking “ducks”, rafts and floating bags. Many of these ideas are technically feasible, and indeed, some have been patented and implemented in several places around the world, including the Faroe Islands in Denmark and a commercial "wave farm" in England.
Yet, this renewable energy resource has not been used to capacity. Probably the biggest reason is that getting people interested and invested in renewable energy is difficult when nuclear and fossil fuel energy production systems already exist, receive subsidies, and have the necessary equipment in place. But despite all those difficulties, as renewable green fuel, wave power just might be the wave of the future.

It is common knowledge that the world is facing an energy crisis. If new energy sources are not developed, human civilization would be in serious trouble. One potential energy source, that has been underused until now, is the one created by ocean waves. The World Energy Council estimates that wave power could generate as much as a trillion watts per year – twice the amount of electricity currently produced by two thousand oil, gas, coal, and nuclear power plants.
Wave power has many advantages: wave energy is abundant and renewable; the potential output of wave power generation would meet all the electricity needs of the world; although the initial investment in equipment would be great, the “fuel” is free and non-political; wave power would have a minimal effect on the environment. In the last two hundred years, inventors worldwide have filed patents for a vast number of devices that make use of wave power, such as rocking “ducks”, rafts and floating bags. Many of these ideas are technically feasible, and indeed, some have been patented and implemented in several places around the world, including the Faroe Islands in Denmark and a commercial "wave farm" in England.
Yet, this renewable energy resource has not been used to capacity. Probably the biggest reason is that getting people interested and invested in renewable energy is difficult when nuclear and fossil fuel energy production systems already exist, receive subsidies, and have the necessary equipment in place. But despite all those difficulties, as renewable green fuel, wave power just might be the wave of the future.

It is common knowledge that the world is facing an energy crisis. If new energy sources are not developed, human civilization would be in serious trouble. One potential energy source, that has been underused until now, is the one created by ocean waves. The World Energy Council estimates that wave power could generate as much as a trillion watts per year – twice the amount of electricity currently produced by two thousand oil, gas, coal, and nuclear power plants.
Wave power has many advantages: wave energy is abundant and renewable; the potential output of wave power generation would meet all the electricity needs of the world; although the initial investment in equipment would be great, the “fuel” is free and non-political; wave power would have a minimal effect on the environment. In the last two hundred years, inventors worldwide have filed patents for a vast number of devices that make use of wave power, such as rocking “ducks”, rafts and floating bags. Many of these ideas are technically feasible, and indeed, some have been patented and implemented in several places around the world, including the Faroe Islands in Denmark and a commercial "wave farm" in England.
Yet, this renewable energy resource has not been used to capacity. Probably the biggest reason is that getting people interested and invested in renewable energy is difficult when nuclear and fossil fuel energy production systems already exist, receive subsidies, and have the necessary equipment in place. But despite all those difficulties, as renewable green fuel, wave power just might be the wave of the future.

It is common knowledge that the world is facing an energy crisis. If new energy sources are not developed, human civilization would be in serious trouble. One potential energy source, that has been underused until now, is the one created by ocean waves. The World Energy Council estimates that wave power could generate as much as a trillion watts per year – twice the amount of electricity currently produced by two thousand oil, gas, coal, and nuclear power plants.
Wave power has many advantages: wave energy is abundant and renewable; the potential output of wave power generation would meet all the electricity needs of the world; although the initial investment in equipment would be great, the “fuel” is free and non-political; wave power would have a minimal effect on the environment. In the last two hundred years, inventors worldwide have filed patents for a vast number of devices that make use of wave power, such as rocking “ducks”, rafts and floating bags. Many of these ideas are technically feasible, and indeed, some have been patented and implemented in several places around the world, including the Faroe Islands in Denmark and a commercial "wave farm" in England.
Yet, this renewable energy resource has not been used to capacity. Probably the biggest reason is that getting people interested and invested in renewable energy is difficult when nuclear and fossil fuel energy production systems already exist, receive subsidies, and have the necessary equipment in place. But despite all those difficulties, as renewable green fuel, wave power just might be the wave of the future.

It is common knowledge that the world is facing an energy crisis. If new energy sources are not developed, human civilization would be in serious trouble. One potential energy source, that has been underused until now, is the one created by ocean waves. The World Energy Council estimates that wave power could generate as much as a trillion watts per year – twice the amount of electricity currently produced by two thousand oil, gas, coal, and nuclear power plants.
Wave power has many advantages: wave energy is abundant and renewable; the potential output of wave power generation would meet all the electricity needs of the world; although the initial investment in equipment would be great, the “fuel” is free and non-political; wave power would have a minimal effect on the environment. In the last two hundred years, inventors worldwide have filed patents for a vast number of devices that make use of wave power, such as rocking “ducks”, rafts and floating bags. Many of these ideas are technically feasible, and indeed, some have been patented and implemented in several places around the world, including the Faroe Islands in Denmark and a commercial "wave farm" in England.
Yet, this renewable energy resource has not been used to capacity. Probably the biggest reason is that getting people interested and invested in renewable energy is difficult when nuclear and fossil fuel energy production systems already exist, receive subsidies, and have the necessary equipment in place. But despite all those difficulties, as renewable green fuel, wave power just might be the wave of the future.