How Waves Could Power A Clean Energy Future
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- The ocean’s waves are immensely powerful. Harnessing that energy for grid-scale electricity production would be a major boon to the clean energy industry, but building durable, powerful, and cost-effective wave energy converters has proven difficult. Now though, an influx of federal funding is helping many U.S. companies gear up to test their latest wave energy technologies, giving many in the industry hope that wave power will see massive growth over the next few decades.
Chapters:
1:46 The challenges
4:05 Wave energy in the U.S.
4:49 (Subchapter) CalWave
6:05 (Subchapter) Oscilla Power
7:34 (Subchapter) C-Power
9:00 Wave energy in Europe
11:51 The future
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How Waves Could Power A Clean Energy Future
should partner with offshore oil rigs to generate their power and allow them to be repurposed after they're done extracting oil (due to lack of need or lack of supply) into off shore power stations
Unfortunately, due to the power having to route through subterranean shielded cable, it would never be practical to reach the long distance of offshore rigs.
@@InspiredScience why would it be a long distance? they could be located very close to offshore rigs yeah? if you're talking about bringing it back from the rigs maybe but also consider the cost reduction of having a facility out there already instead of having to construct one.
We are getting rid of oil if you forgot we're not helping them do anything but destroy there crap
@@alexz5574 - Correct, the conductor between the rig and land. The bulk of U.S. offshore rigs are over 100 miles out. If it were data, that would not be a major issue; however, for the amount of power generated, there would be no way to make that a sustainable proposition. I wish it were.
In addition, within the context of the U.S. and Gulf-drilling, the Gulf exacerbates the problem because the swells are not as large as the Pacific (best) or Atlantic.
@@InspiredScience So is oil brought back via ships then from these rigs? because I thought that it was piped back and they could just fill the pipes with power cord, shame its not feasible, could have been little power islands all over.
I saw a documentary of waves generation of power when I was a little kid, now a few decades later, they are still struggling and needs at least a decade to make it into the grid, you know how that is.
Pipe dream money pits.
Yes, it was called OTEC and I invested in it, too, 1970s early 1980s, never scaled, then energy prices went down as other technologies surpassed the ROI.
There is a power plant in Pico island of the Azores, which worked for years connected to the grid. It works on a water column oscillation principle where air passes through a turbine. I have data and I saw it producing energy. It sounded like a living creature, breathing. It was a real privilege to see it running.
24/7 365 day reliable constant supply - amazing
@@jimlofts5433 not exactly because sometimes you don't have waves, but you can forecast it for 9 days ahead
If you look at most wave energy projects they typically fail because water erosion is almost impossible to build against. the water itself destroys whatever device you're using to capture the energy.
Well any projects, clean energy or not, will require maintenance. This is no different. Corrosion control is part of the maintenance of many sea equipments anyway.
Not just erosion, the device itself is too expensive and doesn’t produce enough electricity to justify the cost.
Early days, but surely somebody will come up with a feasable system to harness the power of the waves.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to have some inlet that have a high tide, and then you keep it in, and then allow the Highwater level in low tide to generate, idk just throwing ideas.
@@MrBoliao98 yep, that’s similar to how hydro power generators work.
All that energy and it cannot be harnessed.
that is on e of the main hurdles they are trying to solve.. if oil rigs can be built in the ocean why can't we we make a rig for wave energy..
Tidal Power in these higher latitude locations is a huge energy potential. 2x a day unfathomable amounts of water change course . I hope we continue to explore all the energy options the oceans can offer us. Very nice video and great job!
we are testing this off the coast of Scotland as we speak - czcams.com/video/4d9zs0W9u2A/video.html
2 times a day, but is that in line with peak consumption periods?
Probably not, which is a considerable challenge as you may be able to generate the electricity, but unless you build significant storage capacity reserves it will likely be wasted…..
@@brian2440 Tides stop 4 times a day, otherwise current always flowing in places like the Sea of Cortez with 20'+ tides.
@@bob_frazier agree but tidal is reliable and predictable unlike the other crap - as with all renewables "STORAGE" is the problem and is only for the far north of Australia - never going to happen with aboriginal and green activists
You can arrange a set of tidal barrages to provide continuous power.
I’ve always wondered what are the possibilities of wave power/energy.
Not great. The harsh, corrosive environment quickly raises havoc with just about anything you stick in the ocean. Not to mention the mussels and other difficult marine life. I doubt there will ever be widespread adoption of this sort of energy technology.
endless. Anything that moves, can generate energy. ocean waves are the most powerful movements on the planet
Liar
@@jadenpark7943 they said the same thing for wind energy, guess what, you think stopping the wind will have no effect on the local weather? Think again, where your mountain ice get their water from? They will tell you it’s climate change, then ask you to throw more money, don’t enjoy your life to try to solve the problem that they created, in the name of global warming 30 years ago. Mover another 30 years, guess what they were talking about? Global ice age, aka global cooling, try to go to your local library look for news paper back in the 60-70s. Dump your money for their agenda the ask you for more money to advance more of their agenda in the name of solving a global crisis. Different generation, same trick.
@@briandbeaudin9166 I would call these a unique set of challenges to be overcome, but eventually good solutions should be found. It looks like such systems wiill require a lot of maintenance, but otherwise it should be practical.
Of the companies presented, my opinion are that Wellos penguin concept is the most solid. All the technique and moving parts is in the buoy and easy to maintain.
The Gibraltar pilot plant does not exist any more @11.01 An easterly storm destroyed part of the pier and possibly parts of the Eco wave plant, thus the whole thing has been removed.
The plant was mainly operational with fairly calm weather, the moment waves got bigger the floats would be raised to protect the plant infrastructure. If real energy tapping is going to be done the plant needs to be able to stand up to storms to harvest the energy within. The overall concept is good but needs perfecting. Its a shame we don't have a proper plant to harness the waves ,government promised a full-scale plant ,but as yet not delivered.
This is why shore wave kit is so hard to do. There is a factor of 1000 power difference between calm and stormy weather and it's really hard to make something that works in most conditions and survives all conditions (for a reasonably amount of money). But if the pier the thing is attached to gets destroyed well that's kind of fair enough if it has to be moved at that point. We probably just have to accept some pier-rebuilding as a cost of such generation. We build and rebuild piers, sea walls and breakwaters anyway.
Having the machinery underwater helps enormously with survivability but gives you a whole different set of problems with maintenance, biofouling, cost, anchor damage etc.
Mind you after many years of difficulty and all sorts of crazy designs from many companies, Orbital seem to have made a tidal stream device which is cheap enough, robust enough and maintainable enough to have decent commercial prospects, so maybe the wave people will find a solution eventually, too.
@@lepidoptera9337 I fully agree, many a times I have seen waves smash everything in its path ,that why I say if any consistent energy harvesting is to be carried out, designers and engineers need to come up with structures that will have to stand in harms way many time during service .Not an easy proposition.
shame should have built before climate change
This is really exciting and fascinating.
Great observation of Wave energy - one kind of reneable energy! As you imply in presentation it can be said that wave energy is concetrated wind energy and form of solar energy with higher rate. Thank you for all you mention, especially how to deal with these problems in civil engineering! 👍
One thing I have been playing with is using hydropower to compress ammonia and dump the heat into the moving water, bypassing electrical production and generating the end product, refrigerant instead. Unlike electricity, cold can be stored in underground bunkers to use as heat sinks for air-conditioning units. I call it Riparian Refrigeration. It would be perfect for Third World areas.
Oh yeah! 😀 Simple to build and operate...and maintenance free too..!
Hahaha....are you serious?
@@henryrollins9177In some applications it may well be compared to other alternatives. Look at my video on it.
@@lewisdoherty7621 good luck man. Hope your work create an impact even in a small scale
Hopefully your work can make a good impact in the future. Best of luck to you.
Despite the ocean being a vertiable heat sponge, dumping heat into the ocean sterilizes it and reduces the oxygen production bit by bit. it's going to contribute, even if not directly.
$500 million then you realize that $480 million went to this guy's salaries and bonuses!
The up and down "fishing cork" method on a single cable works super.
Also you need add one more spectacular energy sources- windy back human instrument...
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They cleared all the regulatory issues for this. That's great! Now why haven't they done that for SpaceX Boca Chica launch site? SMH.
there are appropriate applications for all energy sources, meeting the needs of 7.5 going on 10 B of us in vastly different circumstances will likely take all options. As NP is by far the lowest environmental impact we should be using it as much as possible. Nuclear power is the gold standard of clean energy. It’s as clean and safe as any alternative, requires a fraction of the resources and produces clean, reliable energy 24/7/365. NP really is the premier example of dematerialization in which we actually use less to produce more.
Well China is doin good by the way... they are more reliable and accurate
@@immunelist2376
It's not that we lack the technology, we lack the will.
Unfortunately we are focused on renewable instead of clean reliable energy.
I've always liked waves. Hope this works out.
I think they are waving the idea goodbye.
Surf's Up!!!
@@briandbeaudin9166 Ever seen the Trapp Family Kids sing Goodnight to the Upper Crust?
Don't forget there's no such thing as "clean" energy but only forms of energy that are cleaner than others. Waves are important part of the oceanic systems - they move sediments around and create important ecological system. Haing said that, there are place where we already built wave breakers and I think putting the generators on those places would not be problematic.
Is there any way to convert the motion of the tectonic plates into electricity?
I have also my own Wave energy converter design. this will be our standard commercial design. Just wait until I can have money to produce it.
10:40 If Eco Wave Power made these look sleeker and put some thought into the aesthetics I think these could actually look kind of cool and attractive bobbing up and down along a coastline or pier. This system might not produce as much power as others, but the fact that most of the expensive equipment is out of the corrosive salt water is probably a big plus for maintenance and longevity.
🤣 facts.
It’ll still get salty and corrode quicker than if away from saltwater.
Wait until climate change really kick in. 😳
Those don't actually look too different from a sailboat
I imagine they could also design them to help reduce the impact of the waves on the land, which could be used to protect things like piers and beaches.
For Calwave, their device is submerged. Did they record any accidents that the device had a collision to any boats, etc.? If so, will they improve their design to improve the visibility or will notify these sea vehicles that the device is within their path?
The device was compliant with coast guard required notice to mariners as well as all other permits required for the pilot.
Using the powerful natural flow of water that covers 70% of the planet to produce power instead of placing turbines in rivers and damming them up would seem less intrusive to the ecosystem.
As the guy said on the video, what's harnessed on the sea is actually not the flow of water but the oscillation of it. Unfortunately only the narrow coastal areas of the oceans can be used for that. The bright side is that there's quite a lot of energy available there too.
@@adoatero5129 What a goofy nit pick comment. Moving water, is flowing water. Tide flows in, tide flows out. Way to pick your battles dude 👍.
@@bensk8in467 "Using the powerful natural flow of water that covers 70% of the planet"
Except it's not the flow it's the oscillation and you can't take advantage of the water covering 70% of the planet only narrow coastal areas. Way to lose your battles dude.
@@hurrdurrmurrgurr Nice try “team trigger.” 😂 I don’t care what the video said. My fan oscillates, water flows whether it’s an ocean, steam, or river. Where do you guys come up with your user names anyway? You have a username generator to create all these junk accounts you use to just go after people? You’re just another coward behind a keyboard you probably can’t debate with anyone in person.
Now if we could only harness the power of the Mexican wave at every baseball game!
The on-shore concept demonstrated by EcoWave Power seems obviously superior, but it will take time to determine the comparative dependability, survivability, and economic factors involved in each example presented in this video production.
The best system would seem to be the one with the least moving parts and generating the most power? Perhaps that design of a solid cylinder anchored to the seafloor with something located inside the cylinder with a crankshaft attached to the surface of flotation? kinda like a car engine?
What I don't quite get, is Y do all of those approaches go for that level of Mechanical complexity? Y do they try to do circular motion?
Green energy doing really well in Europe right now...
i think,
humans can make overunity motion for green energy,
by pumping liquids such as H2O into the atmosphere, by electrolysis of H2O into oxygen and hydrogen gas where the height and density are developed with mercury gas compounds, 1 input energy for electrolysis and there are 2 output energies from the gas recombination reaction and hydrostatic pressure, the tool can be like 2 tubes that are prefilled with 2 types of gas resulting from the breakdown of electrolysis before being run and 1 more tube to drain the liquid material resulting from the re-combination of the gas.
fyi ,its about 287kj/mol H2O for input energy ( electrolisys )
get back energy when turn H2 dan O2 gas about 250kj/mol
the density of liquid and or high and gravity must be at least more than 37kj ( 287kj-250kj )
what about Cl2+3F2 ?
good luck for make better world...
thanks me latter.
Crazy how so much is available to help power our needs sustainably and cleanly. Hydrothermal carbonization looks promising too and should be invested in more.
I heard Yellowstone is ready to pop. 😳
@@AwesomeBlackDude Quick ! Get geothermal steam pipes and a special lava turbine down the shaft right away ! Let's not waste this opportunity folks for free clean volcano energy ! Think outside the box ! Get nets ready to catch the Killer Asteroid that'll be coming ! Have it spin a turbine to heat up a sand battery as it ploughs into Earth ! Free energy everywhere !
@@grindupBaker well they're talking speculations 😳
Power extracted from ocean waves is such an indirect way to harness the moon's gravitational tidal energy. I want funding for my project Moondoggle, which would connect the moon by two long cables to dynamos located at the Earth's poles, so the orbiting moon would turn the dynamos.
Lol 😆
And if one of the cables snapped and crash landed, it'll take out everything from WDC through London to Beijing..
@@ameyas7726 : Possibly true, but on the bright side, that would reduce global demand for energy, and would reduce the oversupply of hot air. However, Moondoggle will use low mass cables to minimize potential damage.
@@brothermine2292 doesn’t matter how low mass, eventually you will pull the moon to crashnon earth.
@@TheBooban : Yes, but that "eventually" is so far in the future that even Jared Kushner will be dead by then.
I think the use of the upward motion of a wave to “lift a weight and thus it lifts with multiple waves lifts such a weight to set height, and thus fully charged at that oint, is then released to generate power until its weight needs to be lifting again. Than scalability is then easy as just add these weighted generators to one “one wave lifter”. So the wave lifter is always busy lifting using the “one way winch systems”. Then each “faulty part does not put the other out of order as well
great content thanks
$30 million cost to gain 1 million of electricity that needs to replaced every 20 years and maintained throughout 🤔 This is why this tech will never be deployed to scale. Financially this is a horrible investment and there are much more efficient alternatives.
Even using candles to power a steam turbine is better than this...😀😀😀
We need to come up with something besides burning fossil fuels. Why isn't the US doing any geothermal when they have huge open geothermal areas.
HI has easy access to geothermal air, sea and solar.
@@ellenlandowski1659 We came up with "something besides burning fossil fuels" 70 years ago and thanks to it France has had a 50% share of low carbon primary energy (i.e. ALL energy including transport, heat, etc) for 40 years.
If only fossil fueled """"environmentalists""""" hadn't been slandering it non stop for the last couple decades.
Perhaps maybe something that creates a siphon? Like an old time water pump with a handle, only in a series of pumps feeding a tube that generates power as the water passes through it? or through an Archimedes screw...? the pump handles attached to a float at the surface like the California one?
Self-starting siphon
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Wave energy is an excellent energy source because it is a clean and sustainable. But the biggest problem is the lack of a better frequency caused by the waves' uneven movements, low speed, and high pulsating forces. But we have a solution to integrate every amount of wave motion in a step-by-step manner to provide a continuous rotation, in the form of a single rotational output at the delivery shaft that can rotate a Powerful Alternator.
A planetary gear set can integrate two inputs at a time without any torque loss. It has also been proven in hybrid car technology.
They could also use river current as there's a constant supply of that also.
Excellent story...excellent journalism 👏 👍
This is great I think all we need is the big cable going to shore and the junction box . everybody can plug their own personal wave 🌊 electricity generator and get paid this will speed things up?
boat owners could be paid for creating waves on flat days
@@jimlofts5433 I like the way you think Jim😁
@@greggreg2263 I like the way you think Jim - really seek professional help now haha
Another pie in the sky, all hype no action.
We've been hearing about wave power for the last 40 years.
Excellent possibilities 👍
The only question I have is with the power of swells/waves why only one small generator?
Need to perfect the designs before mass producing
Very promising.
Is there any work being done with electricity generation wth tidal movement? Seems like a no-brainer.
Very exciting stuff!!
Love it Two Bits.
You really have to wonder what forces are at play that are truly making progress in this field so slow. This seems like such a natural solution for our energy and climate issues
The forces of mechanics.
It isn't all a conspiracy...
Nice.... Are you in the sock market like Ocean Power Technologies, INC
Great movie❗
The fact that it is available 24*7 is exciting
Hi. But it's not a 24/7 device. The sea is often calm for days on end. Cheers, P.R.
@@philliprobinson7724 of course, these are prototypes, meant for r&d.
@@Superajatube Hi. I understand that, and doubtless there's something to be learned, even if it's only that the tides are two daily waves that are completely independent of the weather. Cheers, P.R.
That's it put your heads together and get this 24/7 energy under our arms and making clean energy
Oceanic, atmospheric..
Getting closer to that space wave
This technology can be deployed in rivers. Oscillation would no longer becomes an obstacle. They can draw power without construction of a dam.
You may be confusing wave power for water current power. Those are two different technologies.
@@pjacobsen1000 You misread my statement
@@Aeradill My point is there’s no discussion around such tech for rivers other than building dams. Maybe that’s due to other obstacles.
@@Aeradill Some people can’t read between lines. Maybe you should start a company
@@Aeradill Thanks but no thanks Einstein.
How about the new Small Modular Nuclear reactors that Nuscale makes? Runs for 25 years after fueling it.
But don't allow Samsung to make them because if one catches fire and blows up...
How does small reactors solve anything? I’ve never seen a protest sign demanding smaller reactors.
They just think that they can be cheaper. But thats not for sure. Its just we build so few large reactors, the skills are not there to build them efficiently.
The only good reactors are the ones that consume nuclear waste so we don’t have to bury it. But they just talk about that, never do.
@@TheBooban The smaller ones can be mass produced reducing prices and improving quality control. The same design reduces the need for years and years to get approval. The smaller ones can be rotated in and out. The smaller ones get shipped back to the factory to be rebuilt. Any type of accident is easier to control in the smaller ones.
@@lewisdoherty7621 naval ships have been using SMR's for years - aircraft carriers 600MW
@@TheBooban There are some advantages, namely the ability to mass produce them in a factory and assemble them on site from standardized parts and blueprints, which should substantially reduce cost. Also a small reactor is much easier to keep cool and if it is small _enough_ a catastrophic meltdown becomes physically impossible.
Despite them being at the bleeding edge of what was possible, the old small gen 1 reactors were still way cheaper to build than modern behemoths like the EPR. The Enrico Fermi plant here in Italy was the most powerful in the world at the time (1963) at 260MW, and in modern inflation-adjusted money it only cost about 622 million euros to build and operated flawlessly until its eventual shutdown in 1987.
That means if we built 6 of them we'd get more or less the same power output as one EPR, but for 1/3rd the cost. This is without even taking into account obvious cost saving measures like sharing the tertiary cooling loop across groups of multiple reactors, unified control systems and rooms for groups of reactors (keeping in mind that in 1963 you needed hundreds of discrete physical dials, switches and cables to do what can be done at 1/10th the cost today with a handful of PLCs), etc.
Of course I'm not advocating rebuilding exact copies of gen 1 reactors, but you get the idea.
"That just sounds like water dams with extra steps!"
That's all fine and dandy till the earth stops spinning and the ocean goes calm.
I think there’s actually some hope in this technology.
Just go way more with nuclear now, build this in the future if/when it becomes even remotely plausible.
We need this.
More Wind?
How can I contact EMEC , about My new projects and Ideas of Renewables Energy devices, a new horizon in clear eletric energy, devices that works in rivers, lakes and oceanic energy?
Now if we can combine these with desalination plants (and sea-mining operations) and recharging of electric vehicles for the transport of the remaining sludge.
Would be good for underwater data center too, I’d imagine.
I'm interested to see the developments in this field.
we success develop a devise with multi function convert all wind, wave and current kinetic into electrical. In technical our technology is workable and commercial depend on how big scale of market. in principle it will chipper than oil & gas. You will see soon.
Already had a few in Western Australia - all failed when the taxpayer money stopped because they were duds - promised lots delivered zero
Imagine if all the garbage could produce energy from floating in the ocean.
Eco wave energy seems to be a subsidy hunting PR venture, nothing much more. They keep saying the same thing for 5+ years with no real production results. Their Gibraltar project was a total failure. They installed 100Kw. test system on a jetty and pledged to expand to 5MW in a couple of years. This was in 2016. They picked up the EU support money and left, since then (this February) the peer that housed the system collapsed in a storm. Lack of maintenance, no results published. I would question many of these companies.
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Cool stuff
Thanks
Nice video.
Please change the caption from "Rise" to "over due"
They had no problem using oil produced from crude for those hydraulic cylinders. Lets hope the seals on those cylinders hold up to the wonderful world of corrosion and don't leak it into the ocean.
I'm 50 years old. They were talking about this when I was a kid. Either figure it out or shut the hell up about it.
A float on top of the waves/water etched to the bottom of the sea moving up n down side to dide theirs movement that will generate energy
I am a German engineer and I am thinking of much cheaper and more powerful conversion ideas that I have not seen so far (current/momentum fed). Unfortunately, I could not find a way to get in touch with you.
If the people in NY knew wave energy is better than a wind farm they would consider combining both and also adding flow batteries. Just wind in not SMART but combining different combinations is a better choice...Search wave energy.
Muito interessante
Thankyou CNBC for covering renewable energy options. Please make this a regular beat with followup on deployments, funding, inclusion in Public Utilities, where/when fossil fuels are replaced with percentages of Renewables in US and worldwide.
Why not have the bobbing motion of the wave devices at sea be physically sent through a cable with a pulley to the land so that the electric components don’t need to be underwater?
A flexible movable raft where moving with the waves on a massive scale moving with the waves it will generate a massive amount of energy
Great video! Is is possible that after 45 years of sitting on it's asses, after the US "Energy Crisis," obstructing progress, the Department of Energy is actually doing something productive?
This is crap like windmills and solar panels. Takes more oil to produce, operate and maintain those things than directly burning oil in a generator to make electricity...
May or may not work in a decade or two, while nuclear works now and action was needed yesterday. Fossil fuel business will proudly support the vaporware option, giving them many more years of business as usual.
pretty cool
Let's use ecosia 👍🌱🌳
thats good, we also need a clean ocean our oceans are dirty and needs to be cleaned. their needs to be workers working to clean and filter out the dirt in the ocean.
Combine these with a desalination plant and you got your business model done
And a kinetic pump to send the freshwater onshore.
Timestamps please!
Not this again. This has been talked about and researched for decades, and yet deployment is minimal.
Most good things take a long time
Thats why i invested in OPTT
The CEO gets a few million a year the marketing department gets 1/2 the funds few million for pensions leaving maybe 10% for infrastructure, no good results for decades
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion was first proposed in 1880s. During the 1970s and ’80s the United States, Japan, and several other countries began experimenting with OTEC systems in an effort to develop a viable source of renewable energy. In 1979 American researchers put into operation the first OTEC plant able to generate usable amounts of electric power-about 15 kilowatts of net power.
Ok? So we should just stop and rely on oil? Lol… guess you’ll be giving up all tech that doesn’t run on oil
IPhones were horrible in 1979, as well.
There was a promising air-driven impeller design that used the rushing wind that waves pushed through tubes. Current was generated whatever direction the wind and therefore the impeller was going. Wonder why that didn't catch on.
Wonder why that didn't catch on. because there are many days of small or no waves - unreliable / intermittent same as all the other crap - wave gen companies go broke but not before milking the taxpayer
so you could have put "a new wave of energy" on a preview and didn't
Still need better storage methods than lithium batteries.
It will come, and such storage developments are already underway with ideas like rock and sand temperature storage. No reason to stop the development of one area to wait for another development area to continue. Keep building those electric vehicles.
Otimo😮
What did the ocean say to the beach? Nothing, it just waved
Now this will work harness the tides. They aren't going away
No idea why the world hads't truly attempted this before. If humanity can get into space, it can harness oceanic power.
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
Sure, it can produce energy from waves.
But it can't make a business out of it.
Just like going to the moon. Humanity achieved it but its not economical viable to spend billions to enjoy a nice view...
for reliability they first need to build a wave generator like at a surf park
Underwater and underground infrastructure surrounded by a corrosive environment. What a nightmare.
Wave power!
If the Engineers/Scientists can pull this off it'll be amazing. Deep sea mining & exploration/offshore oil activities, Tsunamis/underwater earthquakes/volcanoes, hurricanes/storms, pirates, exposure to marine life, transporting the energy inland & many other factors make this a daunting task. But if America can go to space this shouldn't be a problem, Just put Elon Musk & Ivy league engineers/scientists in charge
I read that according to engineers Elon Musk is more a problem than asset for engineering in his companies. That wouldn't be a big wonder as he is not an engineer himself. He does have a big ego, so perhaps he thinks he is the ultimate creator behind everything his companies do.