We found the following article at Wikipedia. The yardstick of Wave Energy Generation is Salter’s duck with a 90% efficiency. Why are we talking about this on hydrogen autos. Well, mere creative logic.
There is a large reservoir of hydrogen in the earths oceans. In Australia at least and in many countries, large segments of the population live on coastal areas. Hydrogen can be produced by electrolysis of sea water.
Electricity can be produced by wave energy.
Wave Energy => Electricity => Hydrogen => Hydrogen Fuel Cells => Automotive Motion
We posit that members of the Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Lobbies were not under the principal of law and juries a properly constituted jury to decide the fate of wave energy. Read on dear reader to discover the fate of the UK Wave Energy Program.
Discussion of Salter’s Duck
While historic references to the power of waves do exist, the modern scientific pursuit of wave energy was begun in the 1970s by Professor Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in response to the Oil Crisis.
[Historically speaking - another oil crisis and an inventor comes up with something that looks viable]
His invention, Salter’s Edinburgh Duck, continues to be the machine against which all others are measured. In small scale controlled tests, the Duck’s curved cam-like body can stop 90% of wave motion and can convert 90% of that to electricity. While it continues to represent the most efficient use of available material and wave resources, the machine has never gone to sea, primarily because its complex hydraulic system is not well suited to incremental implementation, and the costs and risks of a full-scale test would be high. Most of the designs being tested currently absorb far less of the available wave power, and have for this reason much higher Mass to Power Ratio than is theoretically possible.
According to sworn testimony before the House of Parliament, The UK Wave Energy program was shut down on March 19, 1982, in a closed meeting, the details of which remain secret. The members of the meeting were recruited largely from the nuclear and fossil fuels industries, and the wave programme manager, Clive Grove-Palmer, was excluded.
[Does this look slightly suspicious? Representatives from the nuclear and fossil fuel industries were according to Wikipedia, the main members of a meeting deciding the fate of the UK Wave Energy Program in a secret closed meeting]
An analysis of Salter’s Duck resulted in a miscalculation of the estimated cost of energy production by a factor of 10, an error which was only recently identified. Some wave power advocates believe that this error, combined with a general lack of enthusiasm for renewable energy in the 1980s (after oil prices fell), hindered the advancement of wave power technology
In 1989 according to Energy Ocean Tom Thorpe raised the profile of wave energy - by his own lobbying. As describe here.
Tom Thorpe—while managing part of the UK’s Department of Energy research program in 1989 he carried out a review of wave energy for the UK government and became a supporter of both wave and tidal technology. He then took his promotion of ocean energy to an international stage with work for the European Commission, the International Energy Agency and the World Energy Council. Continuing to raise the profile of Ocean Energy his support eventually led to the rebirth of the UK Wave Energy Program (WEP).