Thursday 6 March 2008

Wave power as Irish energy source


AN IRISH expert is convinced that energy derived from the waves around our coastline will be providing power to our homes within the next five years. Dr Tony Lewis, the director of UCC's Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre has catalogued a number of Irish companies currently testing quarter-scale models of wave-energy devices in Galway Bay, all of which could potentially be developed as commercial systems. Swedish power company Vattenfall is to collaborate with one of them, Wavebob Ltd, which will hasten the day when we begin taking "free" energy from the oceans.

and also the Sustainable Energy Ireland site at http://www.sei.ie/