"Hawaii would seem a natural site for such technology. "The ocean is a really hard place to work," said Patrick Cross, specialist at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, which helps run the Hawaii test site. "You've got to design something that can stay in the water for a long time but be able to survive. China, too, has been building and testing dozens of units at sea.Though small in scale, the test project near Kaneohe Bay represents the vanguard of U.S. wave energy development. "Nobody wants to look out and see wind turbines or wave machines off the coast."

Source: Economic Times September 19, 2016 07:52 UTC