Inhabitat.com reports:
The world’s first commercial wave farm went live at the end of September in Agucadoura, located off the coast of northern Portugal. Designed by Pelamis Wave Power, the farm employs three Wave Energy Converters - snakelike, semi-submerged devices that generate electricity with hydraulic rams driven by waves.
Look at the pictures they’re publishing in the blog. These machines look like giant red snakes that literally block the coastline, creating a sea maze, and uglifying the entire area.
If you ever want to seriously use wave power to generate electricity then we would have to encompass whole coastlines with these red monsters. Putting these far out in the ocean is both hazardous to bypassing ships and is making it impossible to economically transfer the electricity back to the land.
So is it worth the price?
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