Here you will find information about other wave and wind energy converters.

The wave energy people in Denmark have done a great job, on their web site you will find information about 70 systems tested. You will also find information from 400 patents of a total of about 1000.
www.waveenergy.dk

Wave Dragon is a result of a program from 1997 to 2001, but the politicians did not see the value of the work done. As a result Denmark can loose an industry based on wave power inventions.
In Denmark as in Norway there is a “missing link” between the idea/model work and the prototype investment. It is difficulties financing this part which is called the “death valley” do to high risk.
Wave Dragon has been tested first as model and than as prototype trough 8 years with good results.
www.wavedragon.net and www.kmek.dk

The open wave energy program in Demark is based on the success from the wind industry and unlike a Norwegian wave energy program from 1973 to 1986 where people not working in the universities was not aloud to contribute.
The Norwegian program was no success.
University of Trondheim should have known that there is more energy out at the sea compared to the coastline, but they chose a shore based system called “Kilerenne”, one of the most costly systems ever tested.
A Norwegian company Kværner tested a system called “Svingende vannsøyle”(oscillating water column) at the same time. Wavegen has built this kind of wave energy converter at island of Islay and called it Limpet.
www.nve.no
www.wavegen.co.uk

Fred Olsen has tested a wave energy platform called “Buldra”, which in principal is the same as my Wave Pump Rig and based on point absorbers.
The next step for Fred Olsen is a prototype, placed at the west cost of Norway.
www.konferanse.energirike.no

Egil Andersen in Haugesund has invented the Slot-Con Generator, which has been sold to Stig Bakke and his company Wave Energy AS. A prototype is supported by EC and is going to be placed at Kvitsoy on the west coast of Norway in August 2006.
www.waveenergy.no

The AquaBoy is a point absorber and much like a Norwegian system from the program 1973 to 1985 at the university of Trondheim and K. Budal and J. Falnes called it “Duppen”
www.phys.ntnu.no
www.aquaenergygroup.com

EC information about renewable energy.
www.iccfglobal.org

Float Incorporated in USA is working with pneumatically stabilized platforms, called PSP, which is the same as my Wave Pump Rig if they combine the technology with wave pumps.
www.floatinc.com 

How big can a wave be?
www.hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu

The Pelamis wave energy converter is the system Norsk Hydro invested in, but it is difficult to combine wave and wind with this technology.
www.oceanpd.com  

Norsk Hydro AS has also developed and tested a sea based wind farm system at the university in Trondheim. Hydro have plans to test these windmills at their hydrogen test station at Utsira islands in Norway.
www.hydro.com

The university in Trondheim is also testing a point absorber which has a pelagic construction and called “Pelagisk Bolgepumpe”.
www.nve.no