{"id":137,"date":"2007-04-11T08:03:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=137"},"modified":"2007-04-11T08:03:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T15:03:53","slug":"mechanical-ocean-energy-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical Ocean Energy Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we explored Ocean Themal Energy Conversion and today we&#8217;ll move to mechanical harvest of the ocean&#8217;s energy. In the past, we&#8217;ve done an entry on <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=5\">tidal barrage<\/a> which is one form of mechanical conversion using a reservoir system.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/channel-reservoir.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of channel reservoir system\"><br \/>\nIllustration of channel reservoir system<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFundamentally there are two ways to mechanically harvest ocean energy, using the wave motion and\/or using tidal action. One of the simplest devices is the channel reservoir system which uses tidal action and wave action to capture water in a reservoir then uses gravity to release the water through a turbine.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/floating-channel-reservoir.gif\" alt=\"Seapower floating reservoir system\"><br \/>\nExample of floating reservoir system (Seapower)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCommercial interest in reservoir systems has existed for some time with Sweden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seapower.se\/\">Seapower<\/a>, Norway&#8217;s Norwave, Denmark&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waveplane.com\/\">Waveplane International<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wavedragon.net\/\">Wave Dragon<\/a>. The animated gif below shows the Wave Dragon floating platform that is intended to capture water from the waves breaching the outer rim of the device, holding the water in a reservoir, then allowing it to drain through a turbine generating electricity.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wavedragon.co.uk\/images\/stories\/side-princip-300.gif\" alt=\"Wavedragon floating reservoir system\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll look at other harvest technologies in future entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we explored Ocean Themal Energy Conversion and today we&#8217;ll move to mechanical harvest of the ocean&#8217;s energy. In the past, we&#8217;ve done an entry on tidal barrage which is one form of mechanical conversion using a reservoir system. Illustration of channel reservoir system Fundamentally there are two ways to mechanically harvest ocean energy, using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-2d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}