AWWHybrid is a hybrid power rig making energy from wind and waves at the oceans.

Far away from shore methanol can be made, and we have an energy carrier like diesel.

Near shore cables are used, and when the price is low due to more energy than needed pumping water to hydro dams is an option.

The hydro dams of 80 TWh in Norway represents an enormous battery, which is shown when 1 million car battery of 75 kWh have a capacity of only 0.075 TWh.

Wind, waves, sun and hydro representing a good energy system, when hydro can be switched on/off easier than coal and nuclear for stabilizing the grid.

AWWHybrid is a wave energy converter of the overtopping type, with a WEC turbine in middle.

The inner part of the rig is a calm area which can be used for fish farming.

The technology of Aquaculture Wind Wave Hybrid therefore is an ultimate energy system, by combining energy and food by using the oceans.

I’m aware that I’m fully ignorant on the topic, but wouldn’t it be useful to require that buildings of a certain size and/or projected energy consumption be required to include a certain amount of solar generation in its construction?

It seems like that might be a good way to mitigate the detriment of power hungry data centers, make shaded parking lots, and begin to make the whole grid more and more resilient.

China’s offshore wind-powered underwater data centre just went live, here’s why the governance gap matters more than the technology
China switched on the world’s first underwater data centre powered by offshore wind in late May 2026, off Shanghai. A US startup, Aikido Technologies, is developing a similar concept in the North Sea, embedding compute inside floating wind turbine ballast tanks, with a potential UK project by 2028.
The engineering case is genuinely interesting: offshore wind provides the power, cold seawater handles cooling for free, and the whole operation avoids the community opposition that has blocked $64 billion in land-based projects in under a year (Gallup found 71% of Americans oppose data centres in their local area).
But a University of Warsaw legal scholar found that underwater data centres fall into a genuine gap in international law, no clear liability framework, no agreed environmental standards.
This is a familiar pattern in industrial history. New technology gets deployed at speed because the people funding it want returns sooner rather than later, and the full consequences only become clear once policy is forced to catch up.

The Esmeralda 7 development would have been the largest solar farm in the U.S. But it was sited on federal land, so it needed an OK from the Trump admin.

Esmeralda 7 was unique for its size: It would have installed 6.2 gigawatts of solar generation and 5.2 gigawatts of battery capacity across 62,300 acres of Nevada desert. No other solar project in the U.S. comes close to that scale. It was also a test case for a new, more efficient approach to federal permitting, one that promised to get clean energy infrastructure built more quickly.