Power from the waves
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Power from the waves
Oxford University Press, c1995
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"Incorporating and expanding on Energy from the waves by the same author."
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Capturing the energy of waves could provide more than 20 per cent of the UK's electricity needs by the year 2025. There would be no environmental damage and no use of finite fossil fuel resources. This is a clean, renewable and non-damaging power source. This book explains how it could work, how experimental stations do work and the politics and vested interests that have hindered and continue to hinder it. This text is for environmentalists interested in alternative energy and as background reading on environmental engineering, offshore engineering and renewable energy courses.
Table of Contents
Preface. 1.: Introduction. 2.: How and why it started. 3.: What is a wave?. 4.: From water wheel to gigawatt. 5.: The letter from the Bionics Department. 6.: The catalyst. 6.1: The first big scheme. 6.2: Changing water into air. 6.3: The ship with a broken back. 6.4: The Duck that won't lie down. 6.5: Blow-ups. 7.: Ideas proliferate. 8.: Scuppering the waves. 9.: Norway to the rescue. 10.: Survival of the fittest. 11.: Brussels stumbles into action. 12.: The OSPREY takes off. 13.: The official view. 14.: The future. Appendixes: Wave language. Chronology. Index
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