Israeli Company Will Harness Wave-Energy To Power India

Environment News: Israeli Company Will Harness Wave-Energy To Power India

Last July, India lived through a modern nightmare – a massive power failure that left some 600 million people in the dark, in the heat and out of work for days. Lesson learned: A country that strives to take its place in the modern world, touting itself as a place for multinationals to set up shop, needs a power insurance policy. And for that, India is turning to an Israeli company, SDE, which will build a series of power plants along the Indian coastline, supplying the country with power from waves.

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SDE’s wave technology has been making news of late, with the company building facilities in China, India, and other far-flung destinations. The India project is set to be the company’s biggest, supplying hundreds of megawatts of power to the country. Last week, a delegation of major Indian automobile manufacturers visited the SDE offices in Tel Aviv to sign the latest in a series of agreements that the company has made with governments and private businesses in India in recent months to build the power plants that will ring India’s coastline, providing the country with backup power if and when the power goes out again.

SDE’s power plants are a form of wave-based hydroelectric production, using buoys in the water that bob up and down as waves move towards the shore. The buoys’ movement provides pressure on a hydraulic system that operates an electric generator. The buoys, which constitute 10 percent of the system, are placed in the water, and the rest of the system is set on land. In the event of storms, the system is easily accessible for technical service.

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Via Times of Israel
Photo by SDE 

Comments

  1. nomis101 says:

    Underdeveloped countries are happy to receive top notch Israeli technology, no doubt & so they should be. Yet, when we examine the bottom line, we are faced with a surprise…everything boils down to politics. Past “friends” turne into vehement opponents, to the point of voting against Israel at the U.N. ( as if it matters) but still…I trust any recipient of Israeli technology pays top prices for moving their production into the 21st. Century…because the day will come when they stand with Israel’s opponents, openly!!!

  2. Giborah says:

    Tony,

    Unfortunately, their morbid envy of Israel and their medieval concept of “honor” makes it all too easy for them to deferto the fanatic, suicidal domination of Hamas, Islamic Jihand and the other crazies.

    So ordinary Palestinians who more or less got along with Israelis way back when, are now forced to sacrifice themselves and their children to the relentless cycle of violence that THEY initiated.

    This is a culture that worships death, whereas the Jews worship life. “See, I set before you life and death; therefore choose life, that your days may be long in the land.”

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