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Fremantle, Western Australia

Off the coast of Western Australia experiments have revealed that electricity and fresh water can be produced simply by the motion of the waves. While many versions of this energy form have been utilised before, Ceto as it is named (after a Greek sea goddess), offers the potential to revolutionise power and water production globally. CETO harnesses the enormous renewable energy present in our ocean's waves and converts it into two of the most valuable commodities underpinning the sustainable growth of the planet; zero-emission electricity and zero-emission desalinated water. This is achieved by an action based on a piston pump method where the pump is anchored to the sea bed and a cable from the pump is attached to a float similar to what appears to be an overgrown crayfish pot float. You can bump the float, you could even go over it in a boat and the worst you could do in most circumstances would be to make it get out of your way. Each motion is just making the pump work, making more fresh water or electricity.

The story and video action of CETO working is available from the Carnegie Corporation website. Listed below are the various stages and their links.

• CETO Wave Energy
  Watch a live video link from Fremantle, Western Australia of CETO in action
  URL: http://www.carnegiecorp.com.au
• CETO Overview
  URL: http://www.carnegiecorp.com.au/index.php?url=/ceto/ceto-overview
• What is CETO
  A schematic 3D version illustrating how the fully submerged CETO works taking the above diagram one step further.
  URL: http://www.carnegiecorp.com.au/index.php?url=/ceto/what-is-ceto
• Advantages of CETO
  The best wave energy sites in the world receive consistent swell. CETO operates across a variety of wave heights making CETO a base load renewable energy option.
  URL: http://www.carnegiecorp.com.au/index.php?url=/ceto/advantages-of-ceto
• Development Timeline
  Commenced in 1999 as a research project, CETO went into full scale testing in 2003 and is expected to be available commercially by 2013.
  URL: http://www.carnegiecorp.com.au/index.php?url=/ceto/development-timeline
• Major Milestones
  Based on research of the waters in the southern oceans of Australia, Carnegie are exploring the feasability of installing CETO in these waters as a base load energy source.
  URL: http://www.carnegiecorp.com.au/index.php?url=/ceto/milestones
• Leads to maps of the Australian southern coastline that can be enlarged to show potential areas where CETO devices could be installed.
  URL: http://www.carnegiecorp.com.au/index.php?url=/ceto/milestones/Carnegie-investigating-power-generation

Wikipedia's Wave Power Information - click here

Wikipedia lists separately Tidal Power which differs in function to wave power. Click here for an explanation.

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