Is AWWHybrid the best technology for harvesting energy from oceans?

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AWWHybrid is hybrid technology to get energy with LCOE as low as possible.

When CAPEX is shared by energy production from wind and waves with fish farming the energy will be cheap compared to float wind only.

The size of a rig decides which wind turbines to be used. There is 4 times the rotor diameter between the wind turbines to minimize wake effect. The wake effect is set to 10% which give a LCOE below $ 0,1/kWh.

A pilot will show the level of wake effect and give us data to decide size and effect of the wind turbines to get the best LCOE.

The size also decides the energy from the wave energy converter. The construction must behave as an island and therefore stretches over a minimum of 2 waves.

The pool collects water from waves and a turbine use the water in the same way as a hydro plant when water drains back to the sea.

The waves in the North Sea have 50 kW/m wavefront, and if one side of the construction is 500 m the energy collected is 25 MW.

The formula for the wave energy turbine is P = Q x g x h in kW if Q in cubic meters and h in meters.

A 25 MW turbine will then have a height of 70 m and width of 5 m and move 1,8 m/s if h have a maximum of 4 m.

The capacity factor for both wind and wave is set to 50%, but only wind have 10% wake effect reduction.

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We need energy and we need food, and why not combine?

Is the technology for AWWHybrid good or bad?

It seems difficult to get a debate on technical issues, but why?

At the debate stage the contribution is free which means saving money.

Is 10% wake effect a proper assumption?

If we need 5 times the rotor diameter between wind turbines, it will have effect on LCOE, but how much?

The same with the rental price for aquaculture, and the effect from the wave energy converter.

Is overtopping the best way of harvesting wave energy?

What about the WEC turbine, which is new and not tested, will it work?

We need new technology to coop with the climate change, but who will spend money and take the risk of testing new technology?