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Nice post.

i want to discuss about my idea automated power plant

it is can be possible to autometed a power plant

Nice !

Best of luck, would love to know about future updates.

GOOD LUCK!!!!

Great idea. But is it limited to oceans? How about lakes, streams or waterfalls?

Love the innovative approach to capturing wave energy, and hope my small donation helps. As the prototypes get more and more mature, I wonder if you could also advance the concept as it being a way to reduce the wave erosion of man made marina barriers. And once the you have the wave machine installed with the power inverters in place, I hope the marginal cost of installing, say a small scale wind turbine on the marina barrier would be economically feasible also. Also, I wonder if in the future the carpet and pump could be tilted at an angle so that it captures waves as it hits rock faces. Anyways, your project is a fantastic example of engineers and scientists advancing a way for energy consumption to be sustainable. Best of luck!

Viel Glück mit dem Projekt ! Herzliche Grüße Ingeborg Osborne aus Nürnberg

I can't make up your full difference, but as a UC alumna, I can at least round up your numbers!

Interesting Project looking forward to following its developments.

Saw this and wanted to throw in some financial support, Marcus. I see a mag meter is a big part of the budget at $2100. Pretty fancy gear--maybe a more basic gauge could work almost as well? Help close the funding gap? I know a diaphragm pump manufacturer, btw, maybe could get a free pump if we get lucky. Later, Robert Bergstrom

Good luck with your campaign!

Good luck folks, your project is very important.

Interesting angle on how to harvest wave energy. Could also be used to protect some coastal zone subject to wave erosion. One question: Why not use electromagnetic dampener and produce electricity and the spot? That should be easier to transport to shore than a pipe of under pressure fluid.

This is very, very cool stuff - We wish you luck...

What an awesome project Marcus - looking so much forward to seeing it become a beautiful reality! Best, Peter "It always seems impossible, until it's done." - Nelson Mandela

Wish you luck Marcus!

[This is an abridged adaptation of a letter emailed to Mr. Lehmann, Dr. Reza Alam, and journalist Sarah Yang (“Seafloor carpet catches waves to generate energy”, UC Berkeley News Center, 28 January 2014), in which I offered encouragement for the research and raised some questions for the team.] SAVE International has learned various lessons from the controversy over tidal-power technology, especially in South Korea. The national government of South Korea has proposed several huge tidal barrages [a different tidal-power technology] in the name of "clean energy" and "green growth", but those tidal barrages would devastate nearby intertidal wetlands and other ecosystems that provide important environmental and economic benefits, such as supporting the endangered Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor) and other species of migratory birds. In the United States in decades past, too -- right here around San Francisco Bay -- people destroyed tidal flats and other wetlands, but now we recognize their value and are spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to restore them. Although environmental laws in the United States and certain other nations should block a proposed “clean energy” project with severe drawbacks, not every country has such rigorous standards. If your seafloor-carpet technology becomes widely available, I hope you and your team will keep watch and be willing to speak out if you hear of one being proposed at an inappropriate location. Respectfully, Derek Schubert President, SAVE International saveinternational.org [For our investigations into tidal power in South Korea, please check out http://saveinternational.org/saveinaction/tidal-power-in-south-korea/ .]

Looks great especially compared to expensive and hard-to-maintain alternative wave power projects. Assuming it doesn't work very well in kelp fields, will have to stay pretty northern coast, right? Maybe off Eureka or Humboldt??? Have you sussed out potential environmental impacts? This is California, after all...

Good luck with your project. I hope my small donation helps .

We have studies in El Salvador of positive wave power potential, maybe you would like to clone your study here?

Very interesting concept, good luck!

Here we go folks, let's get this out to have more clean energy! It's not like the waves will complain ;)

Good luck!

Super cool project! This technology really needs to happen!!!

Yo dude!

Hey Marcus, how soon before you are powering your house with the hydraulic carpet? Only joking, I love the project, best of luck and keep up the good work!

Go Marcus!