The US Department of Energy has announced a new $6.5 million competition to promote low cost wave power. The competition will use the Navy’s MASK basin, recently upgraded by Edinburgh Designs, to test the devices.
Read more at cleantechnica.com
FloWave tank now making waves.
The FloWave tank at the University of Edinburgh is now complete and making waves. The video below shows a large focus event from all directions, something uniquely possible in a circular tank.
Carderock basin officially opens
The US Navy’s new upgrade to the Manouvering and Seakeeping (MASK) basin was officially opened in a ribbon cutting ceremony on 19th December by Dr. John Holdren, assistant to the president for Science and Technology.
The upgrade to the 360-foot long and 240 foot-wide (110x73m) facility consists of 216 flap paddles designed by Edinburgh Designs Ltd, and can reproduce a wide variety of scale model sea conditions with continuous regular waves up to 1 metre in height possible.
Professor Stephen Salter visits FloWave site
From left: Dr Thomas Davey, operations manager; Stuart Brown, FloWaveTT CEO; Robert Uri, client representative; Professor Stephen Salter; Matthew Rea, Edinburgh Designs Ltd director.
Breaking waves makes musical history
Kevin in his wave tank
We have just received an email from a long time user of our machines, Kevin Drake of University College London. He entered the competition to produce the best sounds of the University and his entry for wave tank and lute was judged the joint winner alongside Kate Oliver’s entry for solo wave tank! Congratulations to them both for showing how wonderful the noise of breaking waves in a tank can be.
Construction underway on US Navy MASK Basin upgrade.
Construction has begun on the upgrade to wave generating equipment at the US Navy’s Manouvering And Sea Keeping (MASK) basin. The basin, part of the Navy’s Carderock Division, is one of the largest mavouvering basins in the world and, once complete in late 2013, will have 216 flap wave generators capable of producing a total of over one megawatt of wave energy.
The One Show Sinks a Boat in an Edinburgh Designs Tank at the Plymouth University COAST Lab
BBC one program “The One Show” have produced a piece on the Plymouth COAST laboratory. The clip features the labs Edinburgh Designs wavemaker from 1 minute 10 s.
See the video here on the Edinburgh Designs YouTube page.
Edinburgh Designs creates “The Impossible” wave.
Edinburgh Designs created the giant wave and flood scenes for 2012 movie The Impossible about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, staring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts.
Most of our customers are looking for accurate, perfect waves; however, the director Juan Antonio Beyona was looking for the opposite effect. His vision was a mean ugly and chaotic wave: something that looked more evil than one dreamed up by the effects guys.
Duke of Edinburgh opens Plymouth Marine Building
On Tuesday 30 October 2012 His Royal Highness Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh opened Plymouth University’s new Marine Building. The Marine Building is a state of the art marine research facility with 4 separate wave and current tanks designed and installed by Edinburgh Designs Ltd.
The world’s first depressurised wave basin opens.
Marin opens the world’s first wave basin capable of operating in depressurised atmospheric conditions. The facility, which first opened as a depressurised towing tank in the 1960s, has recently had a €17m upgrade to provide it with wavemaking capabilities provided by Edinburgh Designs Ltd.