Abstract
One of the wave energy devices studied in the 1970s and 80s was the Edinburgh duck. Figure 1, taken by Jamie Taylor in 1976, shows a duck under test in a narrow tank.
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This research project has been carried out within the WAVETRAIN Marie Curie Research Training Network of the European Community’s Sixth Framework contract MRTN-CT-2003-7505166.
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Salter, S.H., Cruz, J.M.B.P., Lucas, J.A.A., Pascal, R.C.R. (2010). Wave Powered Desalination. In: Badescu, V., Cathcart, R. (eds) Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14779-1_29
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