It’s plain clear the fact that many SF residents enjoy the waves at Ocean Beach, not being able to wait for the next good day to surf.  However, the city is working on wave energy, the energy generated by the powerful waves on the SF beaches could easily be turned into usable electricity.

Today, San Francisco took a meaningful step toward turning the promise of renewable ocean energy into reality. We submitted a preliminary permit application to the federal government to develop a wave power project off our coast that we believe can generate between 10 to 30 megawatts of energy, with potential of up to 100 megawatts. When this project is fully operational, upwards of 100 jobs could be created in San Francisco.

via cleantechnica

Tags: Beaches, electricity, federal government, jobs, meaningful step, megawatts, ocean energy, ocean-beach, san-francisco, upwards, wave energy, wave power, waves

This entry was posted on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 11:05 am and is filed under Green, Living, News.