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| Motherboard | DFI Lanparty |
| Cooling | Big tower thing |
| Memory | 6 gb Ballistix Tracer |
| Video Card(s) | HD 7970 |
| Case | a plank of wood |
| Audio Device(s) | seperate amp and 6 big speakers |
| Power Supply | Corsair |
| Mouse | cheap |
| Keyboard | under going restoration |
The system is a giant hollow chamber that sits partially submerged on the seabed, funneling waves in and out of an underwater opening and generating electricity via a turbine.
Wave Swell’s ‘artifcial blowhole’ – called an ‘Oscillating Water Column (OWC)’ is a large hollow concrete chamber, sitting partially submerged on the seabed.
It funnels waves in and out through an underwater opening, and it also has a small opening above the water, which houses an air turbine.
As waves pass the column, which measures 20 x 20 x 18 m (66 x 66 x 59 ft), water enters and leaves the chambers, rising and falling inside the column – causing the air above it to change pressure.
These changes in pressure force the air to pass by the turbine, generating electricity as they do.
‘So the water wants to fall, and that creates a partial vacuum inside the chamber, and it sucks air back through past our turbine, and that's what generates the electricity,’ CEO Dr Tom Deniss told NewAtlas.
What makes it different to other OWC’s is that its turbine is only exposed to air flow from one direction .
The only moving parts in the entire technology are the turbine and some simple off-the-shelf valves, all of which are well above the water line.
There are no moving parts in or below the water.
The device uses ‘resonance’ to make the most energy out of the moving water.
So the motion of the water inside the chamber get amplified because it’s resonating at the same frequency as the waves – it does this by modifying the surrounding wave field.
That gives it a capacity factor – which is the ratio of the average power a system can generate to its peak – of about 47 percent, compared to the 30 percent that other wind and wave energy systems usually manage.
The company claims its system should be able to produce electricity for a cost of about $0.07 per kWh, which is roughly the same price as coal.
The technology is set to be trialed off the coast of King Island, which lies between Tanzania and Australia.
Wave Swell Energy
Wave Swell’s ‘artifcial blowhole’ – called an ‘Oscillating Water Column (OWC)’ is a large hollow concrete chamber, sitting partially submerged on the seabed.
It funnels waves in and out through an underwater opening, and it also has a small opening above the water, which houses an air turbine.
As waves pass the column, which measures 20 x 20 x 18 m (66 x 66 x 59 ft), water enters and leaves the chambers, rising and falling inside the column – causing the air above it to change pressure.
These changes in pressure force the air to pass by the turbine, generating electricity as they do.
‘So the water wants to fall, and that creates a partial vacuum inside the chamber, and it sucks air back through past our turbine, and that's what generates the electricity,’ CEO Dr Tom Deniss told NewAtlas.
What makes it different to other OWC’s is that its turbine is only exposed to air flow from one direction .
The only moving parts in the entire technology are the turbine and some simple off-the-shelf valves, all of which are well above the water line.
There are no moving parts in or below the water.
The device uses ‘resonance’ to make the most energy out of the moving water.
So the motion of the water inside the chamber get amplified because it’s resonating at the same frequency as the waves – it does this by modifying the surrounding wave field.
That gives it a capacity factor – which is the ratio of the average power a system can generate to its peak – of about 47 percent, compared to the 30 percent that other wind and wave energy systems usually manage.
The company claims its system should be able to produce electricity for a cost of about $0.07 per kWh, which is roughly the same price as coal.
The technology is set to be trialed off the coast of King Island, which lies between Tanzania and Australia.
Wave Swell Energy
