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Lighting The Oceans With Wave Power
The Wavelight concept coverts mechanical energy captured by ocean waves into electrical energy to illuminate a series of LED lamps. Each lamp is tethered to its neighbor with a weight anchored to the sea floor. The lights are designed to attract attention for rescue operations or to warn passing ships to steer clear. A very intriguing design but are LEDs powerful enough? What happens if the anchor isn’t long enough to reach the sea floor?
Designers: Zhang Yakun, He Siqian, Zhu Ningning, Chen Chen & Mu Zhiwei
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andrews says
okay good initial idea but.. you saying its fixed to ocean floors, if you take the oil rig, and the 100′s of meters it will have to take to get to the bottom, how can that be anchored with ease? and waves do move up and down so would there have to be a slack increasing and decreasing device on it, other wise they would be moving with the waves, give or take a new meters?
brack says
neat idea, but yeah the string to the bottom thing won’t work.
Hunter says
I thought this would be attached to an anchor on it’s own and aid in setting perimeters for underwater divers, I saw the fins as a water turbine… I have no idea how it works now.
John q says
light is not a good communication tool for under water use. GPS or the like would do a much better job
StereoTypo says
@John Q, GPS is not a better tool if you can’t recieve satellite signals.
But everyone is right, scene 2 and 3 are far less feasible than scene 1.
Also materials for design? saltwater = bad product life
John q says
i mis-stated myself, I meant something like RF. In that case it doesn’t have to be dark in order to see the markers and it would also allow someone to embed information into the pod things (e.g. Danger oil spill)as well as relay information specific to distance/depth, time of placement, etc.
stephen russell says
Must for marinas & harbors & for midsea use for Ocean rescues IE sub salvage etc.
Otherwise, minisize for swimming pools.
Neat idea.
Must for NYC, LA CA Harbors alone.
simson says
repeated many amny times please don;t post this again , thank you
Juni says
Nice one I Like this idea ………………
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