MAIN WAVE FARMS IN THE WORLD.

 The Aguçadoura Wave Farm was the world's first wave farm (In Portugal).

The main waves farms in the world are in Italy, Portugal, United States, Scotland, England.

SCOTLAND: was innagurated in 2007

ENGLAND: innagurated in 2007

ITALY: it is in the process of converting their concession from fish farming to fish farming plus electricity production.

• UNITED STATES: innagurated in 2007 and is developing

  - Inside the UUEE there are other waves farms:

• LEAP Autonomous, New Jersey
• Coos Bay, Oregon
• Reedsport, Oregon
• Oahu, Hawaii
• Atlantic city, New Jersey.

THE FUTURE OF SEA WAVES POWER.

Wave Power, Powered by Ocean Waves, is the Future of Renewable Energy because the Wave power is a huge untapped resource of all the renewable energy. The motion of the waves has the potential to generate between 1 and 10 terawatts. Even just 1 terawatt would be enough to power a billion homes. Wave power is typically produced by the up and down motion of floating buoys being tossed on the surface of the ocean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcuR800laJ8

PROS AND CONS OF SEA WAVE POWER.

The worldwide potential of wave energy is estimated to be around 2 TW.

Pros:

1.Like with most green energy sources, wave power is also renewable. Since this energy source ultimately comes from the heat energy that is emitted from the sun, it will not disappear for some time

2.The amount power in that comes in waves is huge.  The energy density is typically around 30-40 kW for every meter (2.2 feet) of wave along the shore.

3.Waves are hardly interrupted and almost always in motion. This makes generating electricity from wave energy is faster

4. AREA EFFICIENT: A wave farm that is occupying less than a half square mile of an ocean would generate more than 30 MW of power – the equivalent of 20.000 British homes.

Cons:

1. ENVIRONMENTAL  EFFECTS: The Power farms on shore that are visible from land may cause conflicts with tourism and local acceptance. Due to this, coastal installations and facilities on land has to meet higher restrictions in terms of size and location.

We don’t yet know exactly how wave power affects sea life. We will hopefully in the next following years have more data in this area.

2. Wave power is in very early stages of development, which makes speculating on costs harder. Because is a relatively new technology and we are lacking data on how long these wave power inventions realistically can operate but it is really expensive.

THE MAIN WAVE FARMS IN THE WORLD.

MAIN WAVE FARMS IN THE WORLD.

The Aguçadora wave farm was the first wave farm of the world and it is on Potugal.

-The main waves farms in the world are in Italy, Portugal, United States, Scotland, England.

SCOTLAND: Itwas innagurated in 2007

ENGLAND: It was nnagurated in 2007

ITALY: It is in the process of converting their concession from fish farming to fish farming plus electricity production.

UNITED STATES: This wave farm was innagurated in 2007 and is developing

  - Inside the UUEE there are other waves farms:

• LEAP Autonomous, New Jersey

Coos Bay, Oregon

Reedsport, Oregon

Oahu, Hawaii

Atlantic City, New Jersey 

Aguçadora wave farm, Potugal.

HOW DO WAVES FARMS WORK?

Wave energy works when electricity generators are placed on the surface of the ocean. The energy provided is most use in desalination plants, power plants and water pumps. Today there are very few experimental wave generator plants in all the world. Each wave power generator (also called wind farms when there are more than one) there is a pelamis which are metal tubes joined together and a hydro system inside, so the wave motion into electrical energy resulting from free unlimited once you have finished installing.