Study: Ocean waves could power Australia
CANBERRA, Australia, Jul 26, 2012 -- UPI
Ocean waves could supply as much as 11 percent of Australia's
electricity by 2050, a government research study released
Wednesday found.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organization study found that Australia's ocean energy resources
could power a city the size of Melbourne by 2050.
Ian Cresswell, director CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship,
said The CSIRO study aimed to understand the potential of the
clean and sustainable energy source, Ian Cresswell, director
CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship, said.
"Assessing the opportunities and challenges from resource to
the market is a first for ocean renewable energy in Australia,"
he said in a CSIRO release.
Areas that could benefit from wave energy technology include
Perth, the southern coastline and to a lesser extent the east
coast of Australia, the report said, while tidal technology
could supply niche areas such as northeast Tasmania and the
Kimberley region in Western Australia.
Although wave energy could possibly provide a significant
proportion of Australia's electricity needs by 2050, there were
many economic, technological, environmental and societal
challenges that would determine its place in Australia's future
energy mix, the report concluded.
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