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CT: A wave power generator that can harvest energy no matter which way the sea is running has won the UK round of James Dyson’s engineering award.
The Renewable Wave Power generator seeks to overcome the limitations of some current wave power technologies.
These work best when struck by waves travelling in one direction and are less efficient in more turbulent seas.
The generator uses loosely coupled pistons to reap power from tidal waters that flow unpredictably.

S: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24070071 (last access: 21 December 2014)

N: 1. wave (n): “moving billow of water,” 1520s, alteration (by influence of verb to wave of Middle English waw, which is from Old English wagian “to move to and fro”. The usual Old English word for “moving billow of water” was yð.
power (n): c.1300, “ability; ability to act or do; strength, vigor, might,” especially in battle; “efficacy; control, mastery, lordship, dominion; legal power or authority; authorization; military force, an army,” from Anglo-French pouair, Old French povoir, noun use of the infinitive, “to be able,” earlier podir (9c.), from Vulgar Latin potere, from Latin potis “powerful”.
generator (n): 1640s, “person or thing that generates,” from Latin generator “a begetter, producer,” agent noun from past participle stem of generare. Meaning “machine that generates power” first recorded 1794; in sense of “machine that generates electric energy,” 1879. Fem. generatrix attested from 1650s.
2. Mr Etherington said some of the inspiration for the design of the wave power generator came when he was kite surfing off the coast of Cumbria in seas where waves rarely travelled in a predictable fashion.
3. Dr David Forehand from the Institute for Energy Systems at Edinburgh said existing tidal and wave power systems used different methods to cope with the ways water can move.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=wave&searchmode=none; http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=power&searchmode=none; http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=generator&searchmode=none (last access: 21 December 2014). 2 & 3. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24070071 (last access: 21 December 2014).

OV: wave-powered generator

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CR: generator, ocean wave energy.