Wave Energy In The United Kingdom: A Review Of The Programme June 1975 - March 1982

Abstract

The paper sets out the need for an inexhaustible supply of energy and describes the management system established to examine wave energy as one of the contenders for that role. It then describes the work which has been done in the UK, setting out the various costing figures obtained and the decision making processes which controlled the funding. It concludes that the work is very close to reaching a valuable result and should not be stopped until a prototype has been built.