OWEC - Web Map

The Dymaxion Sky Ocean World Map was chosen to plot a baseline energy network for OWEC Ocean Wave Energy Converter™. This important map, invented in 1936 by R. Buckminster Fuller, depicts the world as an unfolded icosahedron having twenty equilateral triangular facets with just 5% overall distortion from spherical reality. Smaller triangle networks are superposed to show most possible areas for OWEC™ deployment. In actual use, within small triangles, extremely large quantity OWEC fields are arranged to provide essentially "porous" Ocean Wave Energy Webs (OWEB) over several miles with minor shipping lanes and open areas. Thus, freedom of movement is maintained. Major shipping lanes and national waters are excluded from the grid thereby retaining a semblance of the oceans' great expanses.

Ocean Wave Energy Web world map enhancements will activate data links between near real time wave energy reporting buoys and associative OWEC electrical power generation. Please click on the red dots. As deployment expands, OWEB telemetric devices manifest point to point hydroface and module reports allowing control of actual OWEC system functions over the Internet. Accurate correlation to resource equivalents of diverse interest provide, for example, the electrical product of the number of modules required to power aids to navigation equipment and other remote facilities, desalinate water, produce hydrogen and oxygen via electrolysis, and projections of daily fresh water and attendant hydrocarbon pollution abatement in a worldwide "hydrogen economy". With working growth of both real and virtual realms, the OWEB map will become a practical template for accurately monitoring deployment techniques and managing worldwide OWEC site configurations, wave field and electrical energy routing, and total available energy conversion products. In this manner, the OWEB grid develops as symbiotic extension of the Internet web.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, author of Earth In The Balance, stated that "a global energy network makes enormous sense if we are to meet global energy needs with a minimal impact on the world's environment. Such advances in long distance transmission may even make possible Buckminster Fuller's vision that Eastern and Western hemispheres be joined by cable to assist each other in managing peak energy demand, since the high daytime use in one hemisphere occurs at precisely the low night time consumption by the other". Interconnection of vast OWEC™ arrays will manifest this illumination.