A commercial-sized version of this was recently demonstrated in Perth, Western Australia and seemed to have much thought put into it.
The moving parts are large and simple and all the complicated turbines, etc are on the shore, where it's easy to work on them. Desalination is possible using high-pressure seawater (reverse osmosis), so it can be used for fresh-water generation as well as power.
As others have said, why limit ourselves to only one method of generating electricity? Use wind where it's windy, solar where it's sunny, wave/tidal where it's wet, and geothermal where it's shaky!
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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A commercial-sized version of this was recently demonstrated in Perth, Western Australia and seemed to have much thought put into it.
The moving parts are large and simple and all the complicated turbines, etc are on the shore, where it's easy to work on them.
Desalination is possible using high-pressure seawater (reverse osmosis), so it can be used for fresh-water generation as well as power.
As others have said, why limit ourselves to only one method of generating electricity? Use wind where it's windy, solar where it's sunny, wave/tidal where it's wet, and geothermal where it's shaky!