EPA Honors Stevens Sustainability Project

Students from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey have received an Honorable Mention designation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their project submitted for the 2007 "People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability (P3)":

The Stevens Institute of Technology students are developing a process to turn ocean wave energy into electricity. While this may smack of science fiction at first glance, the project essentially takes one form of energy, the up and down movement of ocean waves, and converts it to another form of energy, electricity. The electricity is generated by incorporating a cable reel, a magnet shaft and surrounding coil, on a buoy that moves as a result of waves on the ocean surface. This process produces no greenhouse gases and may become part of a worldwide sustainable energy resource.

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