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Australia’s Entire Power Grid Could be Fueled by Wave Power

by , 08/18/10

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The World Energy Council just named Australia’s southern shores the world’s most promising site for the development of wave power. Australia has a goal of reducing their emissions by 60 percent of year 2000 levels by 2050. The World Energy Council noted that if Aussies developed just 10% of the country’s viable wave power sites they could meet their quota. That means that if just 20% of the possible wave power sites in Australia were developed, the whole country could be run entirely by the sea.

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3 Responses to “Australia’s Entire Power Grid Could be Fueled by Wave Power”

  1. awam awam says:

    Unfortunately, the population density near these places with large consistent waves is too low to justify installing wave powered generators and the distances to the population centers results in too great of a transmission loss.

    Practically nobody lives between Albany and Port Lincon on the south coast, the area which accounts for the majority of the potential for wave power.

  2. The Refinishing Touch The Refinishing Touch says:

    Couldn\’t the people who would travel here for the environmental aspects alone eventually offset the costs this type of implementation would have? It’s a long way away, but this is very promising.

  3. [...] renewable energy project that is set to become the UK’s first offshore facility dedicated to wave energy, has been installed off the North Coast of Cornwall. Four wave energy generation devices will [...]

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