Highwave off-shore energy HOSE 2

An artificial reef of floating HPDE pipe can be built in a harbor then towed and installed just offshore in the near shore of a sandy beach area. Position accurate installation is achieved using GPS-guided anchors. Precisely focusing wave energy on the reef has led to consideration of harvesting this focused energy. Structural reef pipes not only provide a secure platform for the wave energy collectors (WEC), but are also used as plumbing to push pressurized seawater to shore. Installed on the ocean bottom, porosity in the wave shoaling structure causes the reef to act like a snow fence to trap sand. Reduced energy on the inshore also encourages sand accretion on the beach inshore of the reef. This design has been refined over 20 years. The goal is to find a simple solution for a shore management device as a shoaling reef and to consider the harvesting of wave energy.