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Wavefront Power (Team FLAPPER) (Floating Lever and Piston Power ExtractoR) (Research Triangle Park, N.C.)

Wavefront Power’s Very Large Flap- into electrical energy through a power power take-off, hydraulic motor and per Array (VLFA) is being developed conversion chain including a hydraulic electrical alternator.

for utility-scale power production from deepwater ocean swell waves.

The design will introduce a number of innovative, patent-pending technolo- gies that will enable for the ? rst time the economic capture of deepwater wave power.

Operating at depths up to 100 meters, the device is expected to be rated at ap- proximately 5 MW with a capacity fac- tor of 48% based on an annualized aver- age wave density of 30 kW per meter.

The VLFA generally falls into the os- cillating wave surge converter category of wave energy collection devices.

While intellectual property concerns prevent us from disclosing many of the

VLFA’s internal mechanisms, general operation is characterized by a conver- sion of the kinetic energy of wave swells

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