CalWave’s Underwater ‘Carpets’ Harness Wave Power
A Berkeley Lab project goes power surfing
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Innovator: Marcus Lehmann
Age: 28
Leads the year-old CalWave project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California
Form and function
CalWave, an underwater mechanism of springy fiberglass “carpets,” generates electricity from ocean waves more efficiently and less obtrusively than wave-energy systems at the surface now in use in Hawaii and other places.