Waves hold a lot of energy. The challenge is to turn that motion into steady electricity. When speaking with Mikael Sidenmark, inventor of the InfinityWEC technology at Ocean Harvesting, the focus quickly moves to the PTO, the system that converts motion into...
In earlier articles from the INFINITY project, we have explored how design choices shape environmental performance, how circularity can be integrated from the start, and how different parts of a wave energy system interact. As the technology moves closer to real-world application, attention is shifting towards how these systems perform over time, in practice and under real conditions.
Environmental performance in wave energy systems is largely determined in the early design phase. Choices related to materials, system configuration and performance set the foundation for resource use and emissions. According to Johanna Berlin, researcher at NILU,...