Wave energy is moving along rapidly as a valuble source of renewable energy to generate electricity. With Australia's southern margin being identified by the World Energy Council as one of the world's most promising sites for wave-energy generation. That is quite a statement.One minor problem for wave-energy developers, however, is that estimates in the past of wave-energy potential are based on the information in deep ocean water, while "wave-energy generation systems are typically positioned near to shore," says a physical oceanographer Mark Hemer who works with Australia's CSIRO Wealth for Oceans National research flagship.
Australia has been consistent with decreasing greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent of year 2000 levels by 2050. Although an economic analysis of wave generation in Australian waters hasn't been promptly carried out. Hemer states that wave energy offers a "massive resource" to aid the Australian Government's aim of producing 45,000 gigawatt-hours/year of a surplus of renewable energy before the year 2020. ""Convert 10 percent of available wave energy from a 1000-km stretch in this area to electricity, " Hemer says, and "the quota could be achieved by wave energy alone.""
website: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817090758.htm
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