Oregon Sea Grant Video Transcript:
(Video: Ocean waves. A photo of the generator device. .
(Emmanuel Agamloh)"Survivability is really important because these are expensive devices. You want to put them somewhere and you want to wake up tomorrow and they are still there. You first of all want to make sure that they really survivable to high seas.
(Video) Emmanual Agamloh speaks on camera
(Emmanuel Agamloh) "And, also, you want to make sure that the materials that you use withstand the corrosive environment."
(Video) Underwater shot of the turbulence from waves. Researchers working with buoy controllers. Annette Von Jouanne speaks on camera.
(Annette Von Jouanne) "Part of our research is to really optimize the control of the wave energy devices. But also to be able to determine what wave energy conditions are NOT good for the wave energy device."
(Video) Waves crashing on rocky coastline during a storm. Ken Rhinefrank speaks on camera.
(Ken Rhinefrank) "When the storms are too great, we might design systems where the buoy is actually winched underwater to be in a safe environment; where it might actually still be able to generate power, but be either partially or fully submerged, as compared to its normal operating condition."
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