Calwave Wave Carpet

Calwave was founded in 2014 and is based on a wave carpet concept developed at the university of california berkeley cal berkeley.

Calwave wave carpet. The carpet sits atop a series of double acting piston pumps. We offer client oriented project development project financing epc engineering procurement and construction services and long term operation and. Calwave is bringing superior power generating technology to market with global reach. The wave carpet is also designed to survive tough ocean conditions.

Our proprietary wave energy converter technology achieves high performance while surviving storms and extreme conditions. The design was inspired by the ability of muddy seafloors to effectively absorb overpassing ocean wave within only a couple of wavelengths. Ocean waves are 20 60 times more energy dense predictable and consistent compared to other forms of renewable energy. They generate hydraulic pressure that gets sent into a discharge pipe which brings the pressure onshore to convert it into electricity.

An undersea carpet could be used to efficiently capture the energy of ocean waves according to a team of engineers called calwave who are working with uc berkeley s theoretical and applied fluid dynamics laboratory to develop the wave energy harvesting system. It s built of corrosion resistant materials operates submerged and thus sheltered from storm conditions and sits far enough below the waterline to eliminate most surface collision danger. Is a turnkey renewable energy project development company with extensive experience in both commercial distributed generation and utility scale solar power systems. Among those who could come out on top is the calwave team led by marcus lehmann a visiting student researcher at lawrence berkeley national laboratory who is working to take a unique wave carpet technology out of the test tank and into the open ocean.

When the waves run over the carpet the carpet adopts the wave motion which in turn runs the pumps. Our design uses a synthetic seabed carpet that is connected to a grid of generators underneath that has the ability to extract wave energy the same way the muddy seafloor does. Marcus explains that the wave carpet sits atop a series of double acting piston pumps. The capture of wave energy is still in early developmental stages but is seeing rapid growth.

Marcus lehman is the co founder and chief executive officer of calwave power technologies a berkeley calif based startup and one of the leaders in wave energy. 500 000 grant under the name calwave from berkeley lab s clean energy. Calwave project lead marcus lehmann explains that when the waves run over the carpet the carpet adopts the wave motion which in turn runs the pumps.