Blurb from Undecided with Matt Ferrell
Every crashing wave delivers a pulse of power. Add them all up, and the ocean carries more energy than the roughly 30,000 TWh of electricity generated globally in 2023. But for decades, wave power has been a sea of broken dreams. But in 2023, buoys from a Swedish company called CorPower survived record-breaking 60-foot waves — and kept sending clean power to the grid.
With costs plunging and the first full wave farms on the horizon, a decades-old dream might finally be about to break through. So the question is: is wave energy finally ready for prime time — or will it be just another shipwreck in the history of clean power?
Featured image: Corpower‘s wave energy converter.
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