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Old 24-09-2014, 20:07   #31
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By the time the wave action was strong enough to produce any appreciable power, you'd have pulled up anchor and moved to someplace where you'd be able to sleep at night.
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Action from waves, swell, wind, current,,.. all impart cyclical loading on the rode. It is possible to convert and store some of that energy.
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a64--seems right to me, too.

How about using the force directly onto a piezoelectric crystal which itself produces the power? No moving parts.
Most of the answers to why these ideas won't work in a practical application are addressed in the Wikipedia article mentioned previously. But using a piezoelectric transducer is a new twist to the technology. You can simplify your initial design by assuming a 100% perfect coupling of energy into the transducer, and concentrating your effort on matching this to any practical power distribution system. That's going to be the tough part.
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This pulsed DC could perhaps be applied, through diodes, directly to the battery bank.
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While you're at it ad the ability to capture lateral water movement also, from tide/current changes and boat traffic. Maybe like the attached or a vertical version in more of a paddle wheel configuration. The possibilities are many, but efficiency needs proving.
The funny thing is, that might be feasible, at lat.s with sufficient tides, if not practical.
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when i figure this out o am using my 1st bazillion dollars to buy each of you a beer.

A64... u get 2 because you are extra smart!

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I think we are all having fun
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when i figure this out o am using my 1st bazillion dollars to buy each of you a beer.

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Hey man... I work cheap... But it's going to take a promise of lifetime beverage supply to entice me...

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FINE! 1 beer and 1 beer nut for each of you...

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I think you where speaking to me or about me? Either way you're right.
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I don't work cheap! I want a 12 pack of Pacifico...
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I don't work cheap! I want a 12 pack of Pacifico...
That works for me. I've met some of the nicest people walking down the dock with a beer. Them me or both.
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