Ocean Wave Energy
A Green Team series on clean energy resources in Oregon beyond wind and solar.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2025
1:00 p.m. in the PAC
Dr. Burke Hales will tell us about developments in ocean wave energy.
Dr. Burke Hales is a professor at OSU in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. He is the director of PacWave, an open ocean wave energy testing facility recently constructed just a few miles from the deep-water port of Newport, Oregon. There is a huge amount of non-carbon energy in those Pacific Ocean waves, but capturing it is not easy. The PacWave facility will provide wave-energy developers with a place to test a host of different designs.
The lecture on ocean wave energy will be the second in a series of presentations organized by the Green Team on lesser-known clean energy resources in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.