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1. A Current Paper on Global Wave Energy (Using Satellite Data)
ASSESSING THE GLOBAL WAVE ENERGY POTENTIAL
Proceedings of OMAE2010 29th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
June 6-11, 2010, Shanghai, China
LINK: http://www.oceanor.no/related/59149/paper_OMAW_2010_20473_final.pdf
2. Historical Review
"The Development of Wave Power - A techno-Economic Study, 130 pages, 1976
Leishman and Scobie, National Engineering Laboratory Glasgow Scotland (EAU M25)
This is a must read. It has a comprehensive review of British wave patents from 1855 to 1975, see "European Patent Search" below
is clear concise and critical, has loads and loads of information about devices and how they worked up to 1976
3. Tom Thorpe
Here is an early Paper by TW Thorpe that has the famous first world wave energy map,
this is where that (peculiar) metric "kW per m of wave crest front" was initiated.
LINK: http://waveberg.com/pdfs/overview.pdf
Here is a more recent Report with an image of Tom Thorpe
LINK: http://ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/issues/issue13/thorpe.pdf
4. World Energy Org
LINK: http://www.worldenergy.org/data/resources/resource/marine
Reports:
"Wave energy is a renewable resource, created as winds pass over open bodies of water, transferring their energy to form waves. Wave energy has many important advantages over other energy sources, including the increase it gains in power over winter, when electricity demand peaks; low environmental costs; and the ability of satellites to predict waves two days in advance."
Their latest Report on Wave energy is at:
LINK: http://www.worldenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ser_2010_report_1.pdf
page 562-588
5. European Patent Search (espacenet)
The main European patent search page is here:
LINK: http://worldwide.espacenet.com/?locale=en_EP
This explains how to enter search request info for old British Patents on espacenet
LINK: http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/busmanlaw/ip/historicalsearching.html
6. OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST
LINK: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-power-the-world