| Not only is Australia a large land mass that | | | | In addition to electricity generation, drinking water |
| constitutes an entire country and continent, it is also | | | | can be provided by wave- power. As buoys rise and |
| a rather large island with miles and miles of shoreline. | | | | fall, driving pistons up and down with their motion, |
| It is off of Australia's abundant coastline that the | | | | water is forced through lines that power electrical |
| renewable energy of wave power is harnessed. Since | | | | turbines. Some of this water is directed to |
| agreeing to the Kyoto Protocol, Australia has made | | | | desalination plants, producing clean drinking water |
| great strides in the advancement of wave-power. | | | | straight from the largest source of H2O on the |
| The Oceanlinx is a wave-energy converter device | | | | planet; the ocean! |
| developed in Australia. Founded by Dr. Tom Denniss in | | | | Based on this application of wave-power as well as |
| 1997, Oceanlinx technology has grown rapidly since | | | | the efficient performance of the Oceanlinx device, |
| that time due to numerous investments from energy | | | | Carnegie Corporations seek to develop three of |
| firms as well as a $1.21 million research and | | | | these wave-power projects in Australia. They wish |
| development grant from the federal government in | | | | to tether buoys to pistons submerged 15 to 50 |
| 2004. The grant was part of Australia's Wave Energy | | | | meters below the water's surface. Carnegie's desire is |
| Optimisation program, established to help meet the | | | | to establish a 50 MW demonstration in Western |
| guidelines set by the Kyoto Protocol. | | | | Australia by the end of 2013. Another 50 MW wave |
| Oceanlinx is testing a wave-power system at the | | | | power project is set for development near the town |
| New South Wales suburb of Port Kembla. A noted | | | | of Albany in Western Australia, jointly funded by |
| seaport, its location on a particularly wavy portion of | | | | Carnegie Corporations and the state government. |
| the ocean makes it an ideal site to utilize the | | | | As numerous countries around the world look to |
| renewable energy created by water movement. It is | | | | alternative energies for electricity and other power |
| hoped that the Oceanlinx will provide electricity and | | | | generation, Australia has taken the lead in wave |
| water to the homes, steel mills, and shipping | | | | power. Renewable energy that powers homes and |
| companies found in Port Kembla, providing evidence | | | | provides drinking water only makes sense in a |
| of the efficient energy production of wave-power to | | | | country surrounded by ocean. |
| the rest of Australia. | | | | |