OWEC - Our Mission

The OWEC Ocean Wave Energy Converter™ was conceived at a time when inflated world market prices of refined petroleum, derivatives, and dependence on oil imports were perceived deterrents to domestic sovereignty. During this briefly described background, the Company mission became focused on developing and providing modular, self stabilized OWECs having qualities of high electrical generation efficiency from water waves, ruggedized reliability, low maintenance, and low ultimate cost.

Across large scale, humanity's growth to 6 billion people, at about 95 million per year, adds over one million new people every 4 days. Predictive models conclude that 10 to 11 billion will inhabit Earth by the year 2050. Swelling masses of 98.6º Fahrenheit people, petroleum by-product emissions of 501 million automobiles, and attendant effluent related to "meaningful life activities" are increasing global surface temperature, storm frequency, precipitation containment, and sea levels. Some regions and countries exhibit extreme degradation in the form of perpetual auto and stack emissions hanging in the still, 115º Fahrenheit, air. Vehicle owners cheaply obtain automotive inspection stickers without inspector scrutiny. "Interests abroad" export messy production methods to those countries with lax environmental regard. While effluents from many industrialized areas relatively pale or exceed, overall, humanity is scraping by on hacks and coughs of a petroleum addiction that seemingly won't abate until dry reserves. Absent of humility, natural accountability is deferred to false economies of easy open-ended emissions practices. Heads in the sand must stop wanton combustion practices and disposable flow of limited use consumer "goods". Manufacturing processes need recycle, reserve, and savor prized petroleum resources for supplying material value in specialized applications. A variety of medical devices, for example, are most suitably fabricated with certain plastics.

Instead, Since measurements began in 1970, genocidal worldwide hydrocarbon combustion and other deterious by-product endeavors have become burgeoning sources of noxious particulate film deteriorating the Earth's atmosphere, troposphere, and hydrosphere. Petroleum effluent from such abuse symptomatically contributes to expansion of carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon settlement in a gaseous greenhouse ceiling that is measurably choking the biosphere while letting in more of the sun's heat than is emitted. 1998 was the warmest year in at least six centuries. Though natural seafloor oil vents contribute to the mix, earthward descending toxic particulates, runoff, and spills adsorbed and absorbed in the hydrologic cycle are cause of the present worldwide 50% decline in fresh water quality and 30% decline in salt water quality. Rampant fresh water shortages are predicted within fifty years. Latest potential flooding calculations of polar ice melt predict worldwide sea levels 15 feet above normal. Floods will reduce wetland acreage and expand sediment and nutrient flows causing adverse impacts on water quality and reduced fishery habitat. While these figures merit further refinement, diminishing populations of the more delicate species on Earth indicate accelerating debilitation. "All amphibian biologists are now convinced that something unusual and catastrophic is happening to amphibians. We also think the amphibians are telling us humans something has happened to the habitat we share with the frogs," stated Ron Heyer of the Smithsonian Institution. "In some sites we are actually witnessing the decline as we try to study it," said Gary Fellers, a research biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Possible factors include ultraviolet radiation allowed through the thinning ozone layer, climate change, and endocrine disrupting chemicals. Such chemicals can cause deformities and interfere with reproduction.

As water, land, and natural entities are compromised, a most epochal energy-use transition is required from thriftless dispersion of permanently depletable elemental resources as fossil hydrocarbon fuels. Despite malaise, present technological capability imbues immediately attainable solutions that mitigate these most serious problems. The oceans remain a last earthbound frontier critical for continued life sustentation. Three quarters of Earth's surface is comprised of water over 139.4 million "square" miles in breadth with an average depth of 2.4 miles, a fraction of earth's 7,914 mile diameter. The dynamic hydrosphere, so delicately balanced between precipitation and evaporation, churns about in direct synergetic reaction to impingements from asymmetric gravitational rotations of the heavenly bodies coupled with climatic effects of the sun's energy, subsequent flows of temperature and pressure, continuous movement of winds, thermal gradients, and seismic activity, forever seeking the calm of equilibrium. Waters are a flux maintaining agent of currents and eddies causing tertiary movements that combine or cancel to circulate surface disturbances within a wide range of amplitude from the smallest ripple to the largest tsunami. Incessant troughs and crests passage over an ocean point of interest imbibes consistent changes in vertical distance. Given this perpetually operative source of fluctuating motion, all that is needed to satiate an increasing need for humanly useful energy are properly located electrical and support apparati. Any system that harmoniously converts for use and regenerates these energies to original form may be deemed perpetual for as long a time as its apparatus is operative. Perpetual motion systems are distinct from alleged perpetual motion machines. They are comprised of interchangeable components that, if fail, are replaced with negligible effects to overall operation. Thus, friction and wear take their special case tolls without toil to a comprehensive modulated ocean wave energy conversion method.

Immediate effacement to following generations of all life must surmount irresponsibility and manifest extremely large improvements conveyed over very wide basis. The World Environment Administration (WEA), World Energy Council (WEC), and others need ignore politico-geographic lines and quest to minimize border bashing, tropospheric and hydrospheric born chemical permutations of human endeavor. Solutions that mitigate these most serious problems are clearly attainable with present technological capability. Far reaching deployment of vast OWEC installations is anticipated to power industrial activities that harmoniously utilize bounty of the world's oceans. Related to a broad desire for providing environmentally compatible and cyclable fuel, impending critical needs are satiated by major desalination operations for potable water and major electrolysis operations for hydrogen gas production from seawater. OWECs symbiotically function as macro electrolyzers and aerohydrators of the hydrologic cycle.

The OWEC Ocean Wave Energy Converter™ was conceived at a time when inflated world market prices of refined petroleum, derivatives, and dependence on oil imports were perceived deterrents to domestic sovereignty. During this briefly described background, the Company mission became focused on developing and providing modular, self stabilized OWECs having qualities of high electrical generation efficiency from water waves, ruggedized reliability, low maintenance, and low ultimate cost. Across large scale, humanity's growth to 6 billion people, at about 95 million per year, adds over one million new people every 4 days. Predictive models conclude that 10 to 11 billion will inhabit Earth by the year 2050. Swelling masses of 98.6º Fahrenheit people, petroleum by-product emissions of 501 million automobiles, and attendant effluent related to "meaningful life activities" are increasing global surface temperature, storm frequency, precipitation containment, and sea levels. Some regions and countries exhibit extreme degradation in the form of perpetual auto and stack emissions hanging in the still, 115º Fahrenheit, air. Vehicle owners cheaply obtain automotive inspection stickers without inspector scrutiny. "Interests abroad" export messy production methods to those countries with lax environmental regard. While effluents from many industrialized areas relatively pale or exceed, overall, humanity is scraping by on hacks and coughs of a petroleum addiction that seemingly won't abate until dry reserves. Absent of humility, natural accountability is deferred to false economies of easy open-ended emissions practices. Heads in the sand must stop wanton combustion practices and disposable flow of limited use consumer "goods". Manufacturing processes need recycle, reserve, and savor prized petroleum resources for supplying material value in specialized applications. A variety of medical devices, for example, are most suitably fabricated with certain plastics. Instead, Since measurements began in 1970, genocidal worldwide hydrocarbon combustion and other deterious by-product endeavors have become burgeoning sources of noxious particulate film deteriorating the Earth's atmosphere, troposphere, and hydrosphere. Petroleum effluent from such abuse symptomatically contributes to expansion of carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon settlement in a gaseous greenhouse ceiling that is measurably choking the biosphere while letting in more of the sun's heat than is emitted. 1998 was the warmest year in at least six centuries. Though natural seafloor oil vents contribute to the mix, earthward descending toxic particulates, runoff, and spills adsorbed and absorbed in the hydrologic cycle are cause of the present worldwide 50% decline in fresh water quality and 30% decline in salt water quality. Rampant fresh water shortages are predicted within fifty years. Latest potential flooding calculations of polar ice melt predict worldwide sea levels 15 feet above normal. Floods will reduce wetland acreage and expand sediment and nutrient flows causing adverse impacts on water quality and reduced fishery habitat. While these figures merit further refinement, diminishing populations of the more delicate species on Earth indicate accelerating debilitation. "All amphibian biologists are now convinced that something unusual and catastrophic is happening to amphibians. We also think the amphibians are telling us humans something has happened to the habitat we share with the frogs," stated Ron Heyer of the Smithsonian Institution. "In some sites we are actually witnessing the decline as we try to study it," said Gary Fellers, a research biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Possible factors include ultraviolet radiation allowed through the thinning ozone layer, climate change, and endocrine disrupting chemicals. Such chemicals can cause deformities and interfere with reproduction. As water, land, and natural entities are compromised, a most epochal energy-use transition is required from thriftless dispersion of permanently depletable elemental resources as fossil hydrocarbon fuels. Despite malaise, present technological capability imbues immediately attainable solutions that mitigate these most serious problems. The oceans remain a last earthbound frontier critical for continued life sustentation. Three quarters of Earth's surface is comprised of water over 139.4 million "square" miles in breadth with an average depth of 2.4 miles, a fraction of earth's 7,914 mile diameter. The dynamic hydrosphere, so delicately balanced between precipitation and evaporation, churns about in direct synergetic reaction to impingements from asymmetric gravitational rotations of the heavenly bodies coupled with climatic effects of the sun's energy, subsequent flows of temperature and pressure, continuous movement of winds, thermal gradients, and seismic activity, forever seeking the calm of equilibrium. Waters are a flux maintaining agent of currents and eddies causing tertiary movements that combine or cancel to circulate surface disturbances within a wide range of amplitude from the smallest ripple to the largest tsunami. Incessant troughs and crests passage over an ocean point of interest imbibes consistent changes in vertical distance. Given this perpetually operative source of fluctuating motion, all that is needed to satiate an increasing need for humanly useful energy are properly located electrical and support apparati. Any system that harmoniously converts for use and regenerates these energies to original form may be deemed perpetual for as long a time as its apparatus is operative. Perpetual motion systems are distinct from alleged perpetual motion machines. They are comprised of interchangeable components that, if fail, are replaced with negligible effects to overall operation. Thus, friction and wear take their special case tolls without toil to a comprehensive modulated ocean wave energy conversion method. Immediate effacement to following generations of all life must surmount irresponsibility and manifest extremely large improvements conveyed over very wide basis. The World Environment Administration (WEA), World Energy Council (WEC), and others need ignore politico-geographic lines and quest to minimize border bashing, tropospheric and hydrospheric born chemical permutations of human endeavor. Solutions that mitigate these most serious problems are clearly attainable with present technological capability. Far reaching deployment of vast OWEC installations is anticipated to power industrial activities that harmoniously utilize bounty of the world's oceans. Related to a broad desire for providing environmentally compatible and cyclable fuel, impending critical needs are satiated by major desalination operations for potable water and major electrolysis operations for hydrogen gas production from seawater. OWECs symbiotically function as macro electrolyzers and aerohydrators of the hydrologic cycle.
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