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So why do you need to editorialize by using the phrase "climate change" in a headline? Can't you just say "Oyster Wave Energy Converter turns waves of water into waves of electricity" or something similar?]]>Mar 9th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
As the moon creates tidal currents, this here machine has little use for the tides...more for waves really if I look at the prudy picture]]>Mar 9th 2009 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 10th 2009 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
-Sean]]>Mar 9th 2009 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
At one point people probably thought there would never be enough cars or airplanes or other industrial pollutants to make a difference to the environment. The earth isn't fragile, but maybe an earth that can support human life is?

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Finally, someone who understands the macro effects. Europe can be an example (I can't find the article here at work) about how the eastern countries are not liking the wind farms produced in the western countries. Anytime we fiddle with nature, there are consequences that just happen.

And the earth was just fine before humans. The earth will be just fine after we are gone. ]]>Mar 9th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/]]>Mar 9th 2009 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
Eventually it will right itself again, though.]]>Mar 9th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
There still isn't enough industrial pollution to warrant any meaningful climatic change. I know this is going against popular opinion, but the data points to no real correlating rise in global temperatures due to the onset of the industrial revolution. Now, I am not saying the earth isn't warming....but most likely the change in temperature has more to do with the natural planetary climate cycles and less to do with our influence.]]>Mar 9th 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
Stop it. You are going to rile up the Zero Pop wackos with all your reasonableness. ]]>Mar 9th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
The apparatus needs to be on the sea floor. To capture wave energy at great distances from shore would be difficult and costly. ]]>Mar 9th 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 10th 2009 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
It all depends on what you read as to how big an effect there is and if there is an effect at all. Al Gore for instance used a glacier in Argentina to prove that global warming was fact and caused by man. However one of the scientists that works on the glacier has stated that the glacier is and has been stable over the past 30 or so years!

I have also read articles by scientists that state that the global ice volume is actually increasing rather than decreasing. Some areas are loosing ice while others are gaining it.

As I have not been to antarctica and many of the other places used as indicators of climate change I do not know who to believe, but one thing that stands out is that the great dog leg graph that apparently shows mans impact on climate change has such a huge possible error rate (also shown on the graph) that it could indeed show any number of scenarios, including global cooling!

However the more we use clean energy and the less we impact nature, the better we will be as a whole.]]>Mar 9th 2009 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
NO ONE is going to be happy seeing Al Gore with his pants down.]]>Mar 9th 2009 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
I always wonder about these "solutions" because sea water not only promotes the rapid corrosion of almost any metal known to man, it's full of all kinds of tiny microscopic little critters that grow up to become great big critters gumming up the works of anything that comes into contact with it. Who is going to keep the barnacles from growing at any point in that long tube from the wave catcher to the hydroelectric generators?]]>Mar 9th 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
Sorry but considering it will destroy the shore, I don't want it more than a nuclear power plant.]]>Mar 9th 2009 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
Once again why not test it, we could be wrong and it creates a nice moving reef that allows algae to attach creating a more oxygen, thus offsetting our "Clean Coal Technology".]]>Mar 9th 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/If they could install some in Scarborough and have them store energy and then when there's no waves "reverse the thrusters" and get these things to make waves then that'd be cool.
I'd be up for surfing the giant hair curler waves.
On that point what's to stop people swimming out and riding them back and forth in some new slo mo extreme sport? The fact that they're yellow?

Anyway
I'm betting the Orkneyites don't even have xboxes. This'll be like a slightly pointless Christmas to them. They'll be able to get rid of their gas lamps and manuscripts and enter the world of technology. They will no doubt benefit from the fount of knowledge that is the internet... or just procrastinate for hours on end and look at porn.]]>Mar 9th 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/
What's the chance a reactor will fail and cause fallout anyway? How many times has it happened in history? People want to complain about fossil fuels but don't want to move on to technology that we know works and can produce power cleanly and efficiently.]]>Mar 9th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/1. Just how much power is 300 - 600 kw (aka, how many Dell XPS h2c's could we power for 1000 years on that)?
2. How cost effective is it?
These are the only things that really matter :)]]>Mar 9th 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/oyster-wave-energy-converter-puts-climate-change-to-good-use/Mar 9th 2009 1:39PM