In spite of the fact that we will quite often think about the untamed sea waves as long, delicate rollers, any individual who has been adrift realizes that wave movement is frequently inconsistent and eccentric. So is the voltage delivered by the generator on the power float. As each wave passes, the generator first rates…

This sounds straightforward in idea, yet as is regularly the situation, things become a lot trickier when you attempt to assemble a genuine gadget that will work in the genuine sea. Luckily, Hamilton enrolled a group of clever architects to chip away at the venture. Mechanical specialist François Cazenave has worked all day on this…

MBARI engineer Andy Hamilton peers out his office window in Moss Landing and focuses at the waves slamming around the ocean beneath. “Really noteworthy, right? You’d think there’d be a method for utilizing all that energy.” Since 2009, Hamilton has driven a group of designers attempting to do exactly that. Their objective isn’t to supplant…