Harnessing the power of the sea: is wave energy the world’s biggest untapped source of renewable power?
The first wave energy converter was patented by French inventor Pierre-Simon Girard in 1799. Conceptually, the device was simple. A raft floating out at sea, attached to cables and pulleys on shore; as the waves moved the raft, the raft pulled the cables, producing kinetic energy that could be deployed…
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