Talk:Pelamis Wave Energy Converter

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Vandalism[edit]

Vandal keeps adding, "Compiled by I. Palmer."Anthony717 08:22, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup suggestions[edit]

pending better arguments I will remove the following:

The farm will displace more than 6,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions that would otherwise be produced by conventional hydrocarbon-fuelled power plants.

This a) doesn't make sense (6000 tons per day? Month? Year?) and b) is irrelevant to the encyclopedia entry.

b) is also true for

30 of these machines can power 20,000 UK homes. --BjornVDM 02:10, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image problem[edit]

The image will be removed on 2 September unless this is challenged. Ben MacDui (Talk) 20:29, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject class rating[edit]

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:01, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

15% Efficiency[edit]

<added 21/01/2008 11:00> The hydraulic PTO system efficiency is near 84%. However the overall efficiency of the device is far less. I believe it would be nearer to 30% than 15% though. Would it not be prudent to remove all claims of device efficiency unless they are supported? I have removed the efficiency since it is unsupported. Please feel free to reinstate the figure if it can be properly referenced. <anon user>

Is this figure right? Sounds low to me. The efficiency mentioned for the hydraulic power conversion module in the google presentation video is 80%, this seems plausible for a hydraulic system. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.113.222 (talk)

Links? - sounds believable to me :: maelgwn - talk 08:32, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First Prototype in 2007!?[edit]

The first prototype was installed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland, and officially opened on 28 September 2007.[1] This is incorrect. The link refers to a new plant announced in 2007. The prototype was installed in orkney in 2004 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.214.52 (talk) 15:16, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Project dead???[edit]

The Oil Drum seems to be spreading some bad news about this project, [1]. I don't read Portuguese, so I'm a little hesitant to echo their conclusions drawn from the sources [2]. Anyway, I'm skeptical that the current article accurately represents the present state of the project to say the least. -Theanphibian ^{(talk • contribs)} 05:52, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that the Portugal operations and maintenance contract has some financial troubles. The three devices in Portugal are currently moored up at the dock as there is nobody to operate them! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.143.133.108 (talk) 11:56, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

they are developing a new pelamis technology (Pelamis II), the current one (Pelamis) showed problems. the wave park stopped for sometime because one of the companies Babcock & Brown had financial problems and a technological problem, and will now be lead by Portuguese companies such as EDP, the wave park is expected to work again by 2010 (end of 2009) with the new technology. http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:sBcB4wmvtUEJ:www.ambienteonline.pt/noticias/detalhes.php%3Fid%3D8207+http://www.ambienteonline.pt/noticias/detalhes.php%3Fid%3D8207&cd=1&hl=pt-PT&ct=clnk&gl=pt&client=firefox-a -Pedro (talk) 01:34, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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