Ocean Oasis’ Gaia system has been designed to use wave power to desalinate water.
KEY POINTS
- Ocean Oasis says its technology will enable “the production of fresh water from ocean waters by harnessing the energy of the waves to carry out a desalination process.”
- Development of the prototype has received financial backing from a range of organizations including Innovation Norway and the Gran Canaria Economic Promotion Society.
- The Canary Islands are a Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
Plans to use marine energy to desalinate water received a further boost this week, after a Norwegian firm presented a system that will be put through its paces in waters off Gran Canaria.
In a statement Monday, Oslo-headquartered Ocean Oasis said its wave-powered prototype device, which it described as being an “offshore floating desalination plant,” was called Gaia.
The plant — which has a height of 10 meters, a diameter of 7 meters and weighs roughly 100 tons — was put together in Las Palmas and will undergo testing at the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands.
Ocean Oasis said its technology would enable “the production of fresh water from ocean waters by harnessing the energy of the waves to carry out a desalination process and pump potable water to coastal users.”
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