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Ocean Energy Harvesting History and Technologies
Summary
This review traces the history and current state of ocean energy harvesting technologies, examining three key challenges — reliability, levelized cost of energy, and production capacity — and discussing pathways toward commercialization and the role of renewable energy policy in accelerating marine energy deployment.
Marine energy is abundant and has been around since the very beginning. The energy density is much higher than those of solar energy and wind but we have yet to commercialize the product. Three main challenges are proposed by many peer-reviewed journal papers: Low reliability, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE), and energy production. I would like to get deep into the source of the issues in the harvester development, discuss the potential improvements, and application of those converters, and lastly focus on the commercialization along with the renewable energy policies. This will help the audience understand how it all started, where we are currently, and how far we are from commercialization.
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