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1. This sounds like it could be used to produce energy

Reply to theHandpuppet (Original post)

Mon Aug 11, 2014, 11:44 PM

Aug 2014

There has been research on the steady, continual, to and fro undulation of waves as a green energy source.

Since they seem to have found a way to create and control movement in water I wish they'd apply their tech breakthrough towards energy generation.

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Physicists make 'tractor beam' in water [View all] theHandpuppet Aug 2014 OP

This sounds like it could be used to produce energy brush Aug 2014 #1

Doing it mechanically would consume more energy than it would produce Scootaloo Aug 2014 #2

Good thought brush Aug 2014 #3

part of me doesn't mind Scootaloo Aug 2014 #4

I don't think it will take two hundred years, to be frank theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #5

I don't get your first sentence brush Aug 2014 #6

History has already and continues to prove the point. There's no profit in limitless free energy. NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #7

Wouldn't the profit come from green energy though? brush Aug 2014 #8

Yes, it could and would and will. The book "Climate Capitalism" makes a case for it. NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #9

I can see it being used to capture an oil spill sooner than energy. Vincardog Aug 2014 #10