Ann: WavePOD Prototype ready for European Testing, page-3

Can anyone explain if the full size weighs 100 ton ?? just how it will be installed in the CWE buoy and just how it will be actuated as deeper water is giving a longer stroke requirement due to different wave action.

I still can't work out if CWE is via the partnership buying the knowledge to build a efficient actuator or is selling the knowledge into the partnership or both parties are just on a research learning path? Is the current CWE actuator not scalable , cost effective, efficient or can't be modularlised to adapt to the larger buoys?

From a engineering perspective the buoys with their energy release design should be able to have alighter version but that moves away from the whole shared modular design. My quick ruler over the current buoy shape guesses that there is not enough internal height for teh stroke required as opposed to the seabed model where they could design the hydraulic actuator with any stroke length requierd for the expected deployment site. Guess it can nbe mounted externally under teh buoy but that defeats teh whole ability of being able to service it without divers.

Even on deployment of current system i think buyers will be very gunshy and not enter CWE as it will take a while for any meaningful result to be known in regard to power generation. They are unlikely to release any meaningful information rather just a few headline and upbeat comments and then it will be back to the old silence and fund raising cycle. still irks me they are doing tests on current system so much later than they said it was all ready to be due to be installed as that just isn't the way you commission new plant so i don't think shareholders have a complete picture as there are some bits missing. That will keep future investors away for fear of unable to meet self imposed deadlines and then announce failure at last possible minute.