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Oyster Wave Power Machine Generates Electricity Onshore; Sea Trials Begin This Autumn

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The oscillator is fitted with pistons and, when activated by wave action, pumps high-pressure water through a sub-sea pipeline to the shore. Onshore, conventional hydroelectric generators convert this high-pressure water into electrical energy. There is no underwater generator, power electronics or gearbox underwater to go wrong.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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In the meantime, EV buyers’ sticker shock could be alleviated by the knowledge that fuel and maintenance costs are far lower for EVs and that total ownership costs are about the same. Those tax revenues are necessary for the maintenance of roads. passenger vehicles. The International Energy Agency. Sebastian Meyer/Corbis/Getty Images.