美国加利福尼亚大学斯克利普斯海洋研究所,最近设计成功一种将海洋波浪能转化为电能的新设备,日发电量2.3千瓦,可供23个100瓦灯泡照明,亦可供电给海水脱盐或沼气生产等厂家。这种设备主要由一个直径为2.5米、平底圆顶的起伏式浮筒组成,形状象一个浮在海面上的茶碟,底部是一个系在海底的用弹簧加载的水泵。海浪卷来时,浮筒被 Recently, the Scripps Institution of Oceanology at the University of California, San Diego, recently successfully designed a new device that converts ocean wave energy into electrical energy with a daily generating capacity of 2.3 kilowatts, which can be used to illuminate 23 100-watt light bulbs and also power seawater desalination or biogas Production and other manufacturers. The device consists mainly of a 2.5-meter-flat, dome-shaped undulating buoy shaped like a saucer floating on the sea, with a spring-loaded water pump attached to the bottom of the sea. When the waves come in, the buoys are covered