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Wave energy offers the prospect of electricity from a non-polluting, endlessly renewable source which could provide more than 20 per cent of the UK'S electricity demand by the year 2025. Yet little is known by the general, concerned public about how the waves can answer many of our needs, and about what has already been achieved by engineers and scientists.
No information has been available to answer the objections that have been raised, and in particular the absurd suggestion that a fuel which arrives free on our shores is too expensive to capture and process.
In this book David Ross explains clearly and comprehensively how wave power could work, how experimental stations do work, and the politics and vested interests that have hindered it, and continue to do so. He writes from first-hand experience and with authority - he attended the events that he describes and knows personally the engineers, scientists, politicians, and civil servants who are involved.
The book contains an urgent environmental message combined with a detailed technical account, yet is written in plain English understandable to scientist and layman. It shows that wave energy is a resource which creates no environmental problems and which cannot be depleted because 'the waves go on for ever'.
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Electric power production, Ocean wave power, Ocean wavesPlaces
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Power from the Waves: Incorporating and expanding on Energy from the waves by the same author
February 22, 1996, Oxford University Press, USA
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0198565119 9780198565116
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