[elfick]

Hey, has anyone ever heard of the anaconda? its a snake like device that harnesses the power of waves (mostly potential energy) and converts it to electricity.

Heres an article to find out more:
Wave Power Research Snakes It’s Way Here | New Green Research

What do you guys think?

[Kitten]

I think it's a wonderful idea and hope people continue to research in order to make it more easily (and cheaply) harnessed.

[mollyL]

Is it an anaconda that has been placed offshore in Portugal? I read about it a few months ago. It fits more in with its surrounding, and doesn't seem as invasive to the shoreline vistas.

[justontime]

I think it is an excellent idea, hopefully they will develop it so that it can be more widely used.

[atula]

this is the first time I am hearing about this and feel this is great news...but i think with the rising crisis...these ind of research shud be now carried out in a fast pace so that more alternative sources are avaialble to us at a lower cost....

[mollyL]

I agree, Atula; studying and manufacturing these kind of green devices should become a top priority.
I think it could be very helpful in the unemployment area. New jobs for manufacturing would be very welcome about now.

[ALF]

Care must be taken when applying science to natural systems. For example opponenents of a (wave) tidal project in Fundy Bay threatened to effect the rate of tidal exchange from Fundy Bay to the Outer Banks. Estuaries and fresh /brackish water is the premeir nurseries for fish and Aquatic life. Fundy bay takes about as long to drain as it does to refill thus the sloshing of the worlds highest tides in a sort of bath tub effect. Fathoming the potential effect of altering natural ongoing processes is probably not the side of the wave I want to be on. Avoiding effecting un-natural changes on Natural, processes maintains healthier ecosystems, some of which we depend on in a "Web of Life". Conservation and cogenerative production models on the utilization of resources seems to be a better option in most cases. Like a papermill that uses its "Waste heat" from paper processing, to heat the air of the plant for employees etc... So often Cogeneration is lost under the auspices of Conservation. But by recognizing that there is a need for lets say toilet paper, then I don't see why Great Northern Paper can't heat thier factory with there waste water, causing a conservation of energy greater than the potential energy they could get from Damming the Penobscot river (Maines best Whitewater) for their energy profile. At least thats what I told them 20 years ago and it stopped the BIG A damn from being built. Turns out I was right, they stopped the Damn proposal and saved more energy then they could of produced by combining energy cycles in a "cogeneration" Model.

[mohan_lotus]

excellent idea and must focus on implementing without harming nature

[ALF]

I've heard of folks floating turbines on the water in rivers. That sounds appealing and affective. If the top priority isn't conservation than there will remain a constant tendancy to consume, where conservation limitations have results, so do consumption limitations. I know which I would prefer, the constant opportunity to change should be cognitively monitored. It took 6 months for discussion to continue,see
There had been a proposal to hydro/wave damn the Fundy Bay to utilize the high tides. Research indicated the high tides were like motion in a tub. i.e Magnified by the length of the tub the sloshing was magnified due to the length of the bay and wave speed being about the same as the timing of the outside-bay ocean tide. Fortunately they didn't block off and spin out the fish breeding grounds of the Atlantic fleet of international fishers.

[kernow]

I think that harnessing wave power is a very good idea I hope this can be developed and then used more widely.