Converting Ocean Motion To Energy

Off Oregon's coast, researchers hope to pump electricity from the ocean.

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September 18, 2006, 5:00 AM PDT

"In late July, New Jersey-based Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., filed for a preliminary permit with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to anchor one of its generating buoys off Gardiner, Ore. Meanwhile, researchers at Oregon State University are working to establish a national wave-energy research and demonstration facility here off Newport.

The efforts highlight a renewed interest in the US for enlisting waves and tides in the quest for renewable energy sources and greater energy independence, specialists say."

FULL STORY: Off Oregon's coast, researchers hope to pump electricity from surf to turf

Saturday, September 16, 2006 in The Christian Science Monitor

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