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I'm Brad Buckham, I'm a professional engineer and I work at UVic in Mechanical Engineering.
The single most important thing about the work we're doing, is the fact that we
combine the technology development with a fairly extensive body of wave energy resource
assessment.
If you're a technology developer
that's not located at UVic
there's very few resources or databases that you can go to, to get information about what the waves are. We're
working to populate that database and make it accessible to people who are
developing their own concepts.
One of the exciting aspects of the research is that it has a chance to impact
Canadians at a variety of scales. A lot of people view the break in point of wave energy
coverters, as
being with communities on the BC coast that are not connected to the BC Hydro
distribution system.
For those communities they are relying on
diesel shipments to come in, to power
stand alone power plants which
would give those communities the everything things we take for granted:
charging cell phones, surfing the internet.
So there is an opportunity to alleviate that social inequity.
At a larger scale,
we can look to see if
wave energy can be a commodity that's of value to the province.