End of Wave-Energy Project Near Cape Flattery
A wave-energy project off the coast of the Makah Reservation has been discontinued by the developer, Finavera Renewables.
The company is based in British Columbia. They’ve decided to drop all of their wave-energy projects and put all of their resources into wind power.
The project was supported by the Makah tribe and Clallam County Public Utility District. It would have been located in Makah Bay in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. It was supposed to produce enough electricity to power about 150 homes. The project uses turbines to produce electricity from the rolling of the waves.
This method has potential, and we need all the renewable energy sources we can get. There’s already a wave-energy project in operation off the coast of Portugal.
The company is based in British Columbia. They’ve decided to drop all of their wave-energy projects and put all of their resources into wind power.
The project was supported by the Makah tribe and Clallam County Public Utility District. It would have been located in Makah Bay in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. It was supposed to produce enough electricity to power about 150 homes. The project uses turbines to produce electricity from the rolling of the waves.
This method has potential, and we need all the renewable energy sources we can get. There’s already a wave-energy project in operation off the coast of Portugal.
Labels: Finavera Renewables, Makah Bay Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, Makah tribe Clallam County Public Utility District, wave-energy Cape Flattery
posted by Tom Harper at 3:56 PM
4 Comments:
Hum, yes wave energy has got potential. But tide energy has even more potential.
I contend that between the two acting together you could provide the power needs for the whole peninsula.
The limiting factor is the fact that everyone wants to get rich off of it instead of just doing it because it needs to be done.
This isn't the coast of Portugal, obviously.
Well that sucks, this sounded like a win win - a source of income for the Makah and another renewable energy source being developed.
How much money did we waste on that crap?
How about just gettin some drilling going off our coast instead of this pie-in-the-sky bull?
The greenies need to just go live in a frickin cave and leave the energy development to the grownups.
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