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Comment by ChuckMcM

Very cool, it would be interesting to build one (large) which would be wave pumped. You could cast it out of concrete I suspect. The idea being that waves would push into the end and then the flow back out would be self resisted, this would allow the wave energy to pump seawater up a bit. Then you provide a drain which runs through a micro-hydro station.

Would be fascinating to see what rate of wave action you would need to keep the flow going up hill.

On a pure art level building a pool on the beach that was filled with wave action like this would be kind of fun.

parent ChuckMcM 14 years ago

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