Dear OCEAN (WAVE and TIDAL) power Experts, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is opening up a consultation in order to identify which are the most innovative technologies for OCEAN power production. The ideal technologies we are interested in have the following characteristics:
• To be a radically new technology/concept, not achievable by incremental research. • To be in an early stage of development: Technology Readiness Level (TRL) possibly not more than 3 Thank you very much! Alberto Moro
OTEC or Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion is one of the methods. It can be used both for energy and desalination. It makes use of difference in temperature between surface and deeper layer. Most suitable for Tropics.
I think (adaptive) bistable power capture mechanism is one of the promising technologies for wave energy utilization. We have done some numerical work on this nonlinear mechanism (a paper on this has been accepted by Applied Energy) and find that this adaptive bistable mechanism with suitable parameters can significantly broaden the frequency bandwidth of a point absorber WEC. More details can refer to the attached paper.
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