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Solar Kelp Beds

Another fabulous technology that mimics the behavior of plants to produce electricity, the bioWAVE looks like a huge mechanical kelp bed implanted on the ocean floor. Each bioWave generator consists of three buoyant blades resembling giant kelp bladders that harness the energy of ocean currents as they sway back and forth like real sea plants.

Tags: biomimicry, janet marinelli, ocean power, plants, solar power

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