Wave energy is free and widely available to the UK and Eire as well as other countries with west facing ocean seaboards. The inventors (Professors Rod Rainey and Francis Farley FRS) have developed the concept of a distensible rubber tube, floating head to sea, in which bulge waves are excited by passing sea waves. The bulge waves are then used to drive a turbine generator. It is the long ocean swells which have most energy; developed by winds over hundreds or thousands of miles; these are the ones Anaconda uses. This is a particularly rich, but as yet untapped, energy resource which Government studies state could produce 3% - 5% of our electricity initially and up to 20% eventually. For more background information on wave energy we recommend you look at a British Wind Energy Association briefing on wave and tidal stream energy by using this link.

The Anaconda team has now developed the concept in the most rigorous way to produce information which shows that Anaconda has the potential to be one of the most cost effective sources of renewable energy. We are now running a research and development programme which will develop the system and demonstrate what Anaconda is capable of.