Re: idea to generate electricity from wave energy


You expect to find two places in the ocean that are at different
pressures, and deliver these pressures to an accordion box? Try an
experiment in your bathtub with some plastic tubing. I think you'll
have a really hard time finding *any* pressure difference gets
delivered to the box. Hint: If there was a pressure difference, why
wouldnt the higher pressure zone push against the lower pressure one
until the pressures average out?

Also pressure is not energy. Pressure has to work over a distance to
supply work. For instance, the pressure at the center of the Earth is
many trillions of pounds per square inch, but there's no energy being
expended and no work done.

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