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Article: Company thinks big with energy project.(Business)(Oceanlinx hopes to install 10 massive platforms anchored to the seabed off Florence to use waves to generate electricity)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2007
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
FLORENCE - When most people picture the proposals for wave energy projects now taking shape along the Oregon Coast, it goes something like this:
A buoy, bobbing on the surface of the water but not so visible or intrusive as to impair the view - at least no more than the buoys that mark Dungeness crab pots do today - with most of the hardware underwater.
It's time to think bigger, at least in Florence. Platform big. Three hundred thirty tons big. Twenty-three feet above sea level big.
The project that Australia's Oceanlinx Limited firm wants to build off Florence's South Jetty is markedly ...