Harvesting Wave Energy
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Seventeen street lights shine over Ped village's unpaved roads on Bali's Nusa Penida Island. At 6pm, they light up automatically. Two kilometers away, in Toya Pakeh, the streetlights also turn on, just as the sun begins to set.
Just a year ago, the village was bathed in darkness as dusk gave way to night. "Now, all the lamps in the two villages are powered by an Ocean Wave-Powered Electricity Generator (PLTAL)," one Toya Pakeh resident, Restu, told Tempo. The generator lights the way for about 12 hours a day.
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Seventeen street lights shine over Ped village's unpaved roads on Bali's Nusa Penida Island. At 6pm, they light up automatically. Two kilometers away, in Toya Pakeh, the streetlights also turn on, just as the sun begins to set.
Just a year ago, the village was bathed in darkness as dusk gave way to night. "Now, all the lamps in the two villages are powered by an Ocean Wave-Powered Electricity Generator (PLTAL)," one Toya Pakeh resident, Restu, told Te
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