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#BergenWaveWatching: Ruins of a wave power plant

January 6, 2020

Reposted from Elin’s blog: Kjersti, Steffi, Elin and myself (Mirjam) recently discussed ways to better integrate the GEOF105 student cruise into the course. My suggestion was to ask the students…

Wave watching on Schwentine river

June 23, 2019

Surprise! I did some wave watching yesterday! Ok, let’s start with something simple to warm you up: A duck’s wake. And wind waves (coming in from the top right) hitting…

Visiting the ruins of a wave power plant — waves running up a funnel to fill a reservoir

December 20, 2018

Using wave energy to generate electricity sounds very attractive, after all there are tons of waves and all they do (in addition to looking pretty) is eroding coast lines. But…

Visiting the ruins of a wave power plant — waves driving a turbine

December 19, 2018

After posting about how longer fetch leads to higher waves yesterday, here is why I was in that exact spot in the first place: To visit an old wave power…

Thumb wrestling, “Offshore”, and other simulation games

October 3, 2017

“Ready? Set! Aaaaand go!” was the command given at the start of a thumb wrestling war. In every pair of workshop participants, thumbs were being twisted, squeezed, freed again. We were given…

energie:labor at European Researchers’ Night 2017

September 30, 2017

Yesterday Alice and I spent the afternoon and evening in the cute coastal town of Eckernförde, enjoying the summer-y weather, the Baltic Sea, and — of course! — the science outreach.…

Waves transport energy, but not mass

September 1, 2016

Usually we see wave crests propagating, and since the eye can’t stop following them, it is easy to assume that they transport water with them instead of leaving the water…

Progressive waves on a rope

October 5, 2013

Visualization of progressive waves: wave form and energy move forward while the rope itself stays in place. When I talked about waves in GEOF130 recently, in order to explain the…

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#BergenWaveWatching: Ruins of a wave power plant

Wave watching on Schwentine river

Visiting the ruins of a wave power plant — waves running up a funnel to fill a reservoir

Visiting the ruins of a wave power plant — waves driving a turbine

Thumb wrestling, “Offshore”, and other simulation games

energie:labor at European Researchers’ Night 2017

Waves transport energy, but not mass

Progressive waves on a rope

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