{"id":844,"date":"2010-09-16T16:05:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T06:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2010-09-16T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T06:15:42","slug":"worlds-largest-wave-energy-device-planted-off-uk-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/worlds-largest-wave-energy-device-planted-off-uk-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s largest wave energy device planted off UK coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 605px\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-846\" title=\"wavehub\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wavehub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wavehub.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wavehub-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wavehub-119x74.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: North News &amp; Pictures Ltd<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>A British company has taken a major step towards harnessing wave energy by planting a grid-connected power hub in a seabed in England&#8217;s South West.<br \/>\n<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The $70 million project, developed by <a href=\" http:\/\/www.southwestrda.org.uk\" target=\"blank\">South West RDA<\/a>, hit a major milestone with the lowering of the 12-tonne device more than 20 kilometres off the coast of Cornwall on September 3.<\/p>\n<p>South West RDA hopes the socket, dubbed Wave Hub, will be the centrepiece of a testing facility that could one day help provide energy for homes and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Wave power devices will be able to connect to the 12-tonne socket more than 20 kilometres off the coast of Cornwall. Scientists will then evaluate the devices for their performance.<\/p>\n<p>Wave Hub will spend an estimated 25 years in service on the seabed as British scientists look for new ways of developing renewable energy from wave power. It is connected to the shore via a 25 kilometre subsea cable, and is anchored to the ocean floor by four 300 metre cable &#8220;tails&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The video below shows Wave Hub being deployed to the seabed.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eSLIbq1oIjo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eSLIbq1oIjo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British company has taken a major step towards harnessing wave energy by planting a grid-connected power hub in a seabed in England&#8217;s South West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,37,36,8,9],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geology","category-news","category-science","category-technology","tag-rhiannon-elston"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}