50 de nos besoins d energie grace aux vagues, page-4

Cheers for the support - i was a bit worried that translating french articles might qualify me for a straight-jacket! It probably still does, but at least they'll be after you too.

Here's another one with an equally dodgy translation but it looks like it's true - Carnegie did send Ian Fisher (non executive Director) to Mauritius and was pretty well received by the locals. Interestingly he gave the same 3000MW by 2020 estimate and also gave a 1 yr estimate for each wave farm to be built (once the site's been identified and studied).

Anyway, here it is. Make of it what you want. The info's quite interesting and does show you there is a lot going on behind the scenes that CNM dont talk about - but personally i just love the translations! I wonder if it will rate a mention in their upcoming report:


le Maurice: The new wave of the renewable ones

July 8 2008 Published one on the web July 8 2008

Harbor Louis

At the time of a visit in Australia, marcel-lindsay Noe of the "Mauritius Climate Changes Action Forum", fell on a revolutionary technology of the "Carnegie corporate Body". A director of this firm was passage to Maurice.

The energetic independence of Maurice passes doubtlessly by the development of the fine energetic bouquet that consists in a happy mixture of sources of renewable energies. Until now it especially was question of the solar energies, windmill and hydroelectric, as well as biomass. But Maurice equally ideally is placed to exploit another source of energy: the waves. A pioneer of this domain, the Australian firm Carnegie corporate Body, recently presented his invention to the Central Electricity Board (CEB) and to the Board of Investment (DRINK). The occasion to discover a technology surprising innovation and of potential one.

Even if the tidal energy is again to its stammerings, the baby of Carnegie, baptized CETO Wave Energy Technology, represents clearly the future in this domain. This is in any case which thinks Electricité of France for she already bought the rights to develop CETO in the hemisphere North. Carnegie, of his side, reserved itself all the hemisphere South. Of here 2020, this specialized firm in renewable energies hopes to produce 3 000 MW that with CETO.

The technology CETO effective as a pump all simply. Thanks to the bio-mimétisme concept, the submerged spare tires hitch the energy of the ocean and do to work track them CETO (the cylindrical objects situated under the spare tires). These pump sea water under high pressure until the coastal one where she let turbines turn that produce electricity.

Simultaneously, sea water is initiated by inverse osmosis without emitting the least pollution.

Of by his geographic positionnement, Maurice perfectly is placed to capitalize on the untiring tidal energy. "The region possesses one of the better systems of waves to the world. This is a fantastic timeliness for the wave energy is not random. She allows producing electricity 24 hours on 24. This is a little dearer than the energy windmill but the production levels are clearly superior. Water is 8 000 denser time than the wind, which allows condensing the required area to produce the energy. The production of energy windmill necessitates a lot of space. Coal remains the energy source the better market. In in cash the expenses of importation, of transportation, the rights of customs and the whole remainder, one amounts the production of a central one of coal to $60 Mégawatt/Hours. One thinks that once one will arrive to produce CETO in mass, one will be able to produce the electricity to $80 Mégawatt/Hours. The major advantage being, of course, that there is not any pollution", explains one of the directors of Carnegie corporate Body, Ian Fisher.

CETO effectively can boast itself to offer number of advantages. Its spare tires of 7 meters of diameter remain submerged (between 2 and 3 meters under the sea surface). Of fact, they are protected from the intempéries and do not offend aesthetic sensitivenesses of person. The boating boats can operate without fear. Of more, they are comparatively simple to install and to maintain (all the electric installations are located on earth). The Fact that the procedure initiates sea water without having recourse to another source of energy is in itself remarkable. Ian Fisher is equally prompt to recall that let us track them completely are lubricated to sea water, which wants to say that they do not necessitate does or grease does or oil.

The construction takes about a year

According to Ian Fisher, it would be necessary in all and for all three years to Carnegie to be operational to Maurice. "One would need about two years to carry out a feasability study on the better sites, the depth where we can connect ourselves to the electric network. This left it the most complicated one. After two years we will be in a good position for student the question in a deepened way. Once the completed study, we will be able to begin constructing. The construction does not take a long time, about a year."

It considers that with five sites of 40 MW (every spare tire produces 200 Kilowatts of electricity), principally situated in the south and the country west, Maurice can, in very big party, reply to its energetic and hydrologic needs. In the matter of the cost of implement, Ian Fisher is satisfied to say that it is close to the one of the energy windmill. Ian Fisher judges that the reactions to his presentation were "extremely favorable" even if it grants that it still remains "a lot of research to carry out".

It is true that the technology CETO did not again do its proofs on a large scale. The first projects of breadth will be launched next year. But the renewable energies are, by definition, a future sector. Of fact, we cannot allow ourselves to neglect the least track.

http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200807080548.html