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Thermodynamics and Morphodynamics in Wave Energy

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Ocean waves offer a field worth of energetic use. Power from waves impinging the coast worldwide can be estimated in 106 MW, reaching 107 MW if that power is farmed off-shore, (Cruz in Ocean Wave Energy. Springer, 2008, [6]), (Falnes in Mar Estruct 20:185–201, 2007, [13]). Up to now, a long road has been travelled regarding the essentials in the start up of basic concepts and technologies, leading to an open field for a competitive use of the ocean energy resource. Once the world wide ground has been set ready for the urgent need of a better environmental use of natural resources, and once the main technical limitations, gaps and barriers and main economical, social and political issues have been identified, the time is now to take a step further and start to advance in the enhancement of technologies that make the concept of ocean energy usage become a sustainable reality. This book provides with a contribution along a path open by others, in which some advances and improvements in the field of wind wave energy resource conversion are presented, as a contribution aimed to a more efficient usage of clean and sustainable resources in general and to OWC more specifically.

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    Antonio Moñino, Rafael J. Bergillos, María Clavero & Miguel Ortega-Sánchez

  2. School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Encarnación Medina-López

  3. Institute for Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Alistair Borthwick

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Moñino, A., Medina-López, E., Bergillos, R.J., Clavero, M., Borthwick, A., Ortega-Sánchez, M. (2018). Introduction. In: Thermodynamics and Morphodynamics in Wave Energy. SpringerBriefs in Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90701-7_1

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