ORECon Uses Wave Power To Produce Energy Efficiently
By Nick March 24, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, we presented an idea which is supposed to give wave power the credit that it deserves for its future contribution at Earth’s renewable energy. The project is called ORECon and now we came in front of you with an upgrade and some technical details of the system that is going to be built.
ORECon is a self-contained buoy which floats at the surface of the water and each of its unit generates about 1.5 Megawatt of energy. This system is based on a design setup called Oscillating Water Column or OWC which keeps the majority of ORECon’s parts well-above the water in order to protect them from the salt and chemicals in the sea water, but this power generating system has many other technical challenges in the offing besides water’s composition and one of them is the inefficiency of the OWC.
OWC uses the pressure of the waves to push the air in and out the device in order to bestir the turbine that produces the energy. ORECon will be more efficient than other wave power system because of a new technology called Multi Resonant Chambers or MRC.
ORECon has already raised $24 million and the system will be built off the coast of England in Cornwall, near Plymouth, but for the moment the company is trying to ensure the government that ORECon will not have any negative impact on the environment.
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