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Catching the global ocean energy wave
 
With continuing State support , energy from the sea could be key to our economic future
IT’S KNOWN as the “Nokia” factor. Just as the mobile phone manufacturer is credited with rescuing Finland from its economic difficulties in the early 1990s, so ocean energy has been identified as a potential “lifebelt” for Ireland.
Ireland, Scotland and the southern ocean in Antarctica have some of the most energetic wave locations on the globe – “but we don’t want to be just watching others take advantage of that, while we supply the sandwiches out to the guys on the rig”, says Sustainable Energy Ireland’s (SEI) Eoin Sweeney.
Friday 23 October, 2009 01:21 PM
 
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