Float generator

US design and construction engineers have developed a "floating buoy float," which takes advantage of the oscillating motion of the waves to move a hydraulic piston to generate electricity.

Engineers have studied many computer models of float testing, buoy design under different wave conditions. Finally, they came up with a 2.5m float. The bottom of this float is a large metal sheet 3m wide, 5.5m long.

Between the floats and the sheet metal is a piston, large hydraulic cylinder on the inside. Float up and down the push and pull this piston running a generator.

Engineers find the best way to convert the turbulent motion of the waves into rotating generators.

Hydraulic motors utilize liquid movement to rotate a rotary shaft, effectively 95%.

Generators have deployed Monterey Bay several times, generating 400W of electrical power.

At the end of spring 2012, the team changed the voltage to a 24 volt one-dimensional stabilizer, used for scientific equipment. There is a digital software that is installed to regulate the speed of rotation, which constantly produces electricity.

Engineers explain that a float must be able to survive in a hurricane wave and it works best in a 2m high wave.