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Eco Wave Power launches first megawatt-scale wave energy project in Portugal (www.waterpowermagazine.com)
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[โ€“] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How many Mega Watts is the wave power itself? The whole project is only 20MW. A wind turbine is between 2 and 16MW depending on the size, so sounds like this would be equivalent to a few wind turbines?

[โ€“] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Presumably while winds are intermittent, tides are constant.