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Introduction
Waves are created by the gravitational action of sun and the moon and also by the interaction of wind with the surface of the sea. Wave power is practically inexhaustible and classified as a renewable energy source. Wave energy can be extracted and converted into electricity by wave power machines. They can be deployed either on the shoreline or in deeper waters offshore.
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Wave energy fluxes in open sea or against coasts may vary from a few watts to kilowatts per metre. In favourable locations, wave energy density can average 65 megawatts per mile of coastline. The total power of waves breaking on the world's coastlines is estimated at 2 to 3 million megawatts. They are smallest in summer and greatest in winter.(Westerlies and the Trade winds.)
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Wave motion consists of both vertical and horizontal movement of water. Individual particles of water undergo almost a circular motion, moving up as the crest approaches, forward at the crest, down as it recedes, and backward in the trough.
static and is arranged in such a way that the waves motion will move only one part of the machine. Electricity is generated from the bobbing or pitching action of a floating object which can be mounted to a floating raft or to a device fixed on the ocean floor.
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Advantages
A much greater extent of power is concentrated in the motion of waves than in the movement of air. Whereas the power density at a good wind energy site may be of the order of a few square metre, the power density in a corresponding area of wave motion may be up to 100 times greater. It produces no greenhouse gases or other waste. It needs no fuel.
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Advantages ..
Wave energy has this advantage over wind or solar energy that the energy has been naturally concentrated by accumulation overtime and space and transported from the point at which it was originally present in the winds. Wave power devices do not use up large land masses like solar or wind. It produces electricity reliably. It is free and renewable energy source.
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These devices are relatively pollution free, and because they remove energy from the waves, the water is left in a relatively placid(calm) state in their wakes.
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Disadvantages
The major disadvantage of wave energy, as compared to wind, is that the energy is available in the ocean. Therefore the extraction equipment must operate in a marine environment which will have to be taken into account during its construction and its maintenance ,lifetime and reliability should be considered since the energy may have to be transported through a great distance to the shore.
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Disadvantages
There is relative scarcity of accessible sites of large wave activity. Wave energy conversion devices that have been proposed are relatively complicated . Economic factors such as the capital investment, costs of maintenance, repair and replacement as well as problems of biological growth of marine organisms which seem to be very large, are all relatively unknown.
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Disadvantages
Wave energy converters must be capable of withstanding very severe peak stresses in storm.
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