Achievements

As a newly founded charity with limited means, Greenwave is focusing at the moment in research and development of one particular technology ? the Greenwave wind engine. There are other projects on schedule but the wind engines programme was chosen as it delivers the most substantial reductions on greenhouse gases. The wind engine is a ?rediscovered? technology that was successfully sea-trialed back in 1926. At that time fuel and environmental issues were considered irrelevant.

It is, in essence, a mechanical sail ? a spinning rotor that is ten times more efficient than sheet sail in harnessing the power of the wind.

Greenwave?s R&D team is using modern design and materials technology to envisage a new version of the wind engines with a number of innovations protected by patents.

A full scale working prototype has been successfully tested on land at Port of Blyth in Northumberland in late 2009.

The next stage planned will be to fit four wind engines on a cargo ship in order to carry out full sea-trials to test the wind engines on actual working conditions.

This technology can be deployed by over 17,000 bulk carriers and tankers which account for 40% of global ships? emissions. The Wind Engine saves an average of 3,000 tons of CO2 per ship per year.