Flow With It

Waves are constant in the oceans; they never really stop, unless you are on the shore when the tides are changing. According to this source, there are many coastal regions that are using the natural waves to create some extra input of energy. They then explain that there are multiple types of energy that can be used, there are on shore sensor and there are also the sensors for open bays and coves to be out of the way of animal and persons flow. They talk about how these sensors can create large amounts of energy, upwards of 680 terra watts hours a year.

Even if it is not super affective for the internally lying cities in the United States and other countries, this isn’t really an option, but for the coast to be using the sheer power of waves to create and store large amounts of energy. This is also goes with the idea of using the rivers to create energy just by the current alone. I think it is truly amazing that these can cause such drastic change to how much energy we have just by having it sit there and go with the flow of the water.

Article found in this blog can be found at: "Ocean Wave Energy." BOEM Homepage. Bureau of Ocean Management, n.d. Web. 01 May 2013.

Photographic found in this blog can be found at: http://www.boem.gov/uploadedImages/BOEM/Renewable_Energy_Program/Renewable_Energy_Guide/Wave-ParkS.gif?n=257