{"id":571,"date":"2020-04-12T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/?page_id=571"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:05:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:05:58","slug":"ps-frog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/funding\/ps-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"PS Frog Mk 5: A promising point-absorber offshore wave energy converter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funding: EPSRC, \u00a3232k, 2002\u20132004<\/p>\n<p>Investigators: Professor A Bradshaw (PI), Professor C J Taylor, Mr M Widden<\/p>\n<p>The energy in sea waves off the UK&#8217;s west coast could, if captured and converted to electricity, make a substantial contribution to the country&#8217;s international obligations on climate change. PS Frog Mk 5 offers a prospect of economic power for the UK from sea waves. Based on the original PS Frog device which was judged the most economic converter of the time in a 1992 study, the Mk 5 version of the device is expected to deliver improved performance: capturing more power, at lower cost per installed kW. It is all contained within a sealed steel hull, and will be as robust as a ship. This research programme will include tests on models in wave tanks at Lancaster and elsewhere; investigation by application of theory and computer simulation; and studies of the engineering of the device and an assessment of costs. The targets are an average of 600 kW delivered by each fullscale device, and a cost of power of 4 p\/kWh or less.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-682 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/files\/2020\/04\/wave-device.jpg\" alt=\"Wave device picture\" width=\"768\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/files\/2020\/04\/wave-device.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/files\/2020\/04\/wave-device-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding: EPSRC, \u00a3232k, 2002\u20132004 Investigators: Professor A Bradshaw (PI), Professor C J Taylor, Mr M Widden The energy in sea waves off the UK&#8217;s west coast could, if captured and converted to electricity, make a substantial contribution to the country&#8217;s international obligations on climate change. PS Frog Mk 5 offers a prospect of economic power &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/funding\/ps-frog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PS Frog Mk 5: A promising point-absorber offshore wave energy converter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":866,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571\/revisions\/684"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}