Ocean Wave Energy

A Green Team series on clean energy resources in Oregon beyond wind and solar.

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.