Among those who could come out on top is the calwave team led by marcus lehmann a visiting student researcher at lawrence berkeley national laboratory who is working to take a unique wave carpet technology out of the test tank and into the open ocean.
Calwave wave carpet.
Calwave was founded in 2014 and is based on a wave carpet concept developed at the university of california berkeley cal berkeley.
Calwave project lead marcus lehmann explains that when the waves run over the carpet the carpet adopts the wave motion which in turn runs the pumps.
The wave carpet is also designed to survive tough ocean conditions.
They generate hydraulic pressure that gets sent into a discharge pipe which brings the pressure onshore to convert it into electricity.
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Our design uses a synthetic seabed carpet that is connected to a grid of generators underneath that has the ability to extract wave energy the same way the muddy seafloor does.
500 000 grant under the name calwave from berkeley lab s clean energy.
Ocean waves are 20 60 times more energy dense predictable and consistent compared to other forms of renewable energy.
Calwave is developing a wave energy converter whose design is inspired by the ability of muddy seafloors to effectively absorb overpassing ocean waves.
When the waves run over the carpet the carpet adopts the wave motion which in turn runs the pumps.
An undersea carpet could be used to efficiently capture the energy of ocean waves according to a team of engineers called calwave who are working with uc berkeley s theoretical and applied fluid dynamics laboratory to develop the wave energy harvesting system.
Marcus explains that the wave carpet sits atop a series of double acting piston pumps.
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The carpet sits atop a series of double acting piston pumps.
It s built of corrosion resistant materials operates submerged and thus sheltered from storm conditions and sits far enough below the waterline to eliminate most surface collision danger.
