Literature Review

Wave energy is a leading project in the engineering for the environment sector. As stated from the Ocean Energy Report by ABS Energy Research 2007, “the capability to supply Electricity from this resource is such that, if harnessed appropriately, 10% of the current level of world supply could be provided.” This shows that wave energy and the devices that use it could provide the power that is needed in today’s environment. It shows wave energy is big enough to provide enough power.
Also you can see from the article by John Callaghan of the Carbon Trust, Future Marine Energy 2006, that wave energy devices have “The potential for low carbon electricity generation in this country and others, which could be highly material amongst efforts to combat climate change and increase security of energy supplies”. From this statement it is made clear that wave energy and the machines that use it could provide a good energy source to combat climate change and provide an energy source with low carbon emissions. These are key factors in improving the environment, the demand for these two properties alone in different types of energy is very high.
Frost and Sullivan 2008 wrote a report that states “The promise of ocean energy is enormous. The increasing demand for economical and inexhaustible energy sources, as well as the emergence of more stringent and progressive climate change, and renewable energy policies will ensure that ocean energy play a major role in the future global energy mix.” Once again this statement shows that wave energy devices could help climate change and benefit the environment which is the main reason for carrying out this research paper.
Therefore, from all three of these articles/reports we can see that wave energy would be a good renewable energy source that could help the environment therefore the development of machines/devices to enhance this energy could be engineering that would help the environment.

References:
Ocean Energy Report by ABS Energy Research 2007 (Anon, 2007) pg 7
John Callaghan 2006, Future Marine Energy, Results of the Marine Energy Challenge: Cost competitiveness and growth of wave and tidal stream energy, pg 3.
Frost & Sullivan 2008, An Assessment of Current Technologies In Ocean Energy pg 3.

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