I’m still optimistic about the sector. There’s just so much energy there waiting to be tapped. Wave power in particular is promising, given that it doesn’t require immersion of turbines in corrosive seawater. I believe Pelamis has been plagued with financial problems more than anything else. They might not make it but I expect others to keep trying.

Seems so eco-hostile. . .I mean come on - tether cables, conductor cables, submerged electronics
serious amperage per install, corrosive environment, boats, little mermaids and the like just tryin’ to get along.  I get the idea, and like tapping all that mechanical power, but again, as Cool Earth Solar CEO Rob Lamkin put it, “it’s a materials issue!”

Shame so little.  Baseload power available to any coastal community should be a priority me thinks…

It’s definitely worthwhile and it probably should have been more, but marine is still such a tough task. The government is probably trying to put more into near term stuff It is in the stage of those olde tyme movies they used to show at Shakey’s of biplanes, triplanes and guys flapping their arms in an effort to fly.

Pelamis was financial in the end, but there have been steady trickles of mechanical problems.