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 The story behind Wave Star Energy!
It
was two sailing enthusiasts, brothers Niels and Keld Hansen from
Esbjerg who, in 2000, came up with the basic principle behind the Wave
Star machine. Many happy years of life on the waves, combined with an
interest in renewable energy (as a child Niels experimented with the
building of small solar panels), gave them the idea.
The challenge was this: How to harness a regular and stable
energy source from waves which come rolling in at 5-10 second intervals.
The
solution was the Wave Star machine with its design which cuts into the
wave and exploits the entire length of the wave as the machine’s floats
are lifted upwards one at a time, as the wave passes.
The founder of Wave Star Energy, Per
Resen Steenstrup, had just begun to look into the possibilities within
commercial wave power, and Wave Star seemed to fulfill his own
ideas about what would make a cost-effective machine.
In 2003 he
purchased the rights to the machine and founded Wave Star Energy. Today Niels and Keld Hansen are
employed as consultants at Wave Star. Among other things they follow
the on-going testing of the machine in Nissum Fjord.
Today the brothers Clausen, the family behind Danfoss, are the main shareholders in Wave Star Energy.
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