"Wind pressure acts like fuel for ocean waves—higher pressure pushes on the front of a wave, making it grow taller and move faster," said Peisen Tan, the lead author of the study and a recent Ph ...

While squeezing every ounce of these kilowatt hours from the ocean is likely impossible, wave energy could still account for around 10–20 percent of the U.S.’s renewable energy mix.

Furthermore, the wave energy converter is designed to hug the surface of the ocean, or the “wave line.” This allows the WEC to become one moving mass with the wave.

Brazilian big wave surfer and seven-time Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Award winner, Maya Gabeira is on a colossal mission. Her objectives are so ambitious, they might just be bigger than the 73 ...