Wave energy firm makes pitch to (Oregon International) port

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Wave energy firm makes pitch to port

By Elise Hamner, City Editor | Saturday, January 19, 2008

COOS BAY — The guy from Ocean Power Technologies Inc. came to town with a wave energy sales pitch.

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It was OPT representative Steven Kopf who claimed the most attention. He stood for about an hour and a half before the commissioners who govern the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay on Thursday night. He touted the possible benefits of building a wave energy project off Coos Bay’s North Spit.

It will be an experimental site, he said. The technology is in its infancy. But these buoys would be bigger and better outputwise than the wave riders proposed offshore of Gardiner. The new design would not require the buoys carry oil, compared to the 400-gallon oil-packing devices proposed to the north.

For Coos Bay, initially there would be 20 buoys planted in the ocean 2.5 miles from shore, with the anchor gear at 40 to 45 fathoms, he said. At full build out, the site would cover three-quarters of a mile of sea somewhat northwest from the Horsfall Beach parking lot, according to Kopf’s map.

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