Legend has it the French mathematician and engineer Pierre-Simon Girard had an intuition while watching the waves violently break against the coast: what about exploiting the mass of energy contained within them? And how to do that? Girard was first, in 1799, to patent a system for capturing wave energy. In the centuries since, hundreds of other engineers have set themselves the task of designing similar systems. All have wanted mankind to stop wasting such a promising source of energy, but only recently has the technology been developed to transform their ideas into something that could one day be of service to everyone. Today the phrase “renewable energy” brings to mind two images above all: wind turbines and endless fields of solar panels. One downside of both these “clean” energy sources is that they are not always readily available. Obviously, the sun only shines in the daytime, and even then, often hides behind the clouds. Wind is erratic by nature, and only in certain places does it blow hard enough to generate energy all the time. If these problems were not enough, the challenge of storing the energy for future use is still very much ahead of us. And as for the ocean waves? Anyone who has been to a beach will know that they break on the coast endlessly, all day and all night, all year long, which makes them an ideal source of clean energy without interruption. The overall energy density of waves is more than five times greater than that of wind and 20 times that of the sun. By converting it, we could satisfy much of the demand for electricity on the planet. Waves remain the biggest unexploited source of renewable energy in the world.
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