Shark lovers are in for a treat this week, as National Geographic’s SharkFest begins unspooling across multiple channels. With attention turned to the ocean, it’s also a great opportunity to catch up on the latest news about wave energy — an infinite, endless source of zero carbon electricity if only someone could figure out how to tap into it.SharkFest has been earning props for its educational approach to, well, sharks.
With that in mind, the renewable energy transition can’t happen fast enough for sharks and their growing legions of fans on land. That brings us to wave energy, which has been identified as a formidable, yet untapped, source ofcontain tremendous amounts of power; in the United States, ocean waves carry the equivalent of almost 60% of the United States’ annual electricity needs,” observes the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
“As soon as we receive the relevant licenses, we expect a very short implementation time of around 6 months for our first U.S. project,” the company reported in its Q1 2024 statement on May 16.