Wednesday, December 28, 2005

A NASA scientist is working to pry electricity from the sea.

Second-generation inventor Tom Woodbridge is now close to perfecting a machine that’s designed to make cheap, clean electricity from the ocean. He believes it will change the world, and he knows of about 20 other companies trying to achieve the same thing.

He has six U.S. and international patents, a $30,000 grant from the state's Technological Research and Development Authority and whole whack of prototypes.

Testing in the Indian River is planned this spring. Then, if he gets financial backing, Woodbridge will build three full-sized buoys, each about as big as the size of a small bus, for testing in the open ocean.

Woodbridge says he needs about $550,000 for 18 months of development for three ocean-trial models, and he expects it will cost $4.2 million to complete through production. He says he’s had a lot of inquiries at this point, but not a lot of investors.

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Aqua-Magnetics Inc (no website found)

PAT. NO. Title
1 6,791,205 Reciprocating generator wave power buoy
2 6,020,653 Submerged reciprocating electric generator
3 5,696,413 Reciprocating electric generator

Full story at:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/nation/13339728.htm

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