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I read his analysis, I found it roughly to be back of the envelope math and I did not think it was authoritative especially when he uses phrases like "my crude estimate" and "my st…

"wave power (the latter is effectively nil) " ~30 terawatts, about double the electrical consumption of the whole planet, is effectively nil? " [tidal is] slightly more viable than…

Wave energy would be any type of machine that uses the motion of individual waves or swells, rather than tides. There is a wide range of ideas, most are at small scale, early stage…

Why don't they scale? is there not enough ocean in the world or something?

Well the comment you replied to that you agree with "100%" also said wave energy + tidal energy. Your method of analysis is assuming we exist in the best of all possible worlds. "F…

The existence of fundamentally non-effective wind capturing technologies, such as rooftop windmills, vawts, and kites, does not preclude existance of effective designs aka multi-me…

Quick note, confusingly throughout this thread people have used the phrase "wave energy" as essentially a synonym for "tidal energy", they are separate technologies sometimes talke…