Float/Ratchet Wave Energy

[Oxygon]

I was thinking about wave power and came up with this, I am fairly sure someone else has thought of it... but I want to share just in case...

The basic idea is to have a long "supported" or "unsupported" torsion bar/line with ratcheting floats along its length... in the ocean or on a beach...

I can imagine the torque to be sufficient to generate some energy...

I know that this would suffer from the same wave power problems...

no waves/no power, etc...

I just thought about the unsupported "torsion line" idea... maybe a few support floats would work...

[Jonathan]

That's a neat idea, I've never seen it before.

[jim_mich]

Looks like a VERY good idea. I can visualize an array of many all connected together as there may be a practical limit on the length of a single shaft.

[Oxygon]

Better Yet...

Integrate this and the last idea I have posted and you get...

A high torque torsion "RatchetPanelSeries"...

this "Imo" is better than maybe both...

I don't know, they both sound OK.