Trident to Test Wave Power Device off Suffolk Coast

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Trident to Test Wave Power Device off Suffolk
Coast

• -NewEnergyFocus.com

(September 2, 2008)
By Nick Schleicher
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The Article

• Year-Long Trial of Trident Energy 3
• Power?
• Commercialization?
• Direct Energy Conversion Method (DECM)
• No hydraulics or air compression to generate
  electricity
• Cuts costs of construction, installation and
  maintenance
• Simplicity
• One principal moving part per converter, the
  simplest marine renewable energy generation
  system available

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Trident Energy 3
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Trident Energy 3
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Advantages

• Predictability
• The vast majority of the worlds population live
  within 30 km of the coast
• Waves tend to be stronger in Winter
• When the most energy is consumed

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Why Should We Care?

• Using our technology to harness economic
  electricity from the power of the sea could make
  an immense contribution to the fight against
  climate change.
• Hugh-Peter Kelly, Trident Energy

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Resource

• http//newenergyfocus.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?lis
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