WaveBob Company Profile

Powering the future WAVEBOB WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER The Wavebob Wave Energy Converter (WEC) is a highly innovative, self-reacting, oscillating point absorber designed to convert ocean wave energy to electricity, with further application for sea water... More

Powering the future WAVEBOB WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER The Wavebob Wave Energy Converter (WEC) is a highly innovative, self-reacting, oscillating point absorber designed to convert ocean wave energy to electricity, with further application for sea water desalination. The key Wavebob innovations are now protected by a series of world patents covering 45 countries. . The Wavebob incorporates four key elements; a submerged mass attached by way of a slender neck to a buoyant inner float structure, a buoyant torus structure, and a Power Take-Off (PTO) with support frame. Wavebob generates energy primarily from the differential vertical motion (or ‘heave’) of the torus structure and the inner float. As waves propagate past the device, both structures respond differently. It is this differential movement between the structures which is exploited to generate power. The Wavebob represents a major breakthrough in wave energy conversion technology given the fact that it can be tuned and control Less