http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15219874/ns/us_news-environment/REEDSPORT, Ore. — Wave energy buoys proposed for the Oregon coast could generate enough electricity to power about 2,000 homes, supporters say.
Ocean Power Technologies has installed smaller, single test buoys in Hawaii and New Jersey. But the larger buoys proposed for Oregon would be arrayed in four rows of 50 for a total of 200, requiring about 1.5 square miles of ocean, according to company consultant Steve Kopf.
"Nobody's ever done this before," Port of Umpqua Commissioner Keith Tymchuk said during a recent hearing on the proposal. "Nowhere in the United States has there been a project like this permitted before."
