OWEC^® Inception

The oceans cover nearly three quarters of Earth's surface with water film 139.4 million "square" miles in breadth and average depth of 2.4 miles, a delicate fraction of earth's 7,914 mile diameter. The dynamic hydrogen oxygen hydrosphere, churning toward calm of equilibrium between air, fresh precipitation, and salty evaporation, is a continually self-balancing flux agent common to celestial and terrestrial forces. Waters respond in direct synergetic reaction to impingements from asymmetric gravitational rotations of heavenly bodies coupled with climatic effects of the sun's energy upon spherical surface, subsequent flows of thermal and pressure gradients, continuous motion of winds and clouds, seismic activity, and large school movement. Its currents and eddies cause tertiary movements that merge, combine or cancel, to circulate surface disturbances over wide range of amplitude from a smallest ripple to rogues and the biggest tsunami. Primarily caused by interaction of winds with the hydroface, water wave incidence at deep ocean sites is several times the energy at adjacent coastal locations. Performance measures are characterized by oscillating low frequency energy regularly transporting unimpeded for several miles, large storm forces, and irregular variation over wide range of wave size, length, period, direction, and duration. Prevailing energetic wavescapes are generated from at least two directions of procession that form predominantly parallelogramic and triangular interference undulations. At depths below such activity, pressure and viscous shear reduce orbital, trochoidal, water particle motions to equilibrium. Incessant troughs and crests passage over particular ocean point imbibes consistent changes in vertical distance. Given this continually motive source, all that is needed to satiate an increasing need for humanly useful energy are properly located electrical and support apparatus. Any system that harmoniously converts for use and lets these energies restore to original form may be deemed perpetual for as long a time as its apparatus is operative. Perpetual motion systems are distinct from alleged perpetual motion machines. They are comprised of interchangeable components that, if fail, are replaced with negligible effects to overall operation. Thus, friction and wear take their special case tolls without toil to a comprehensive modulated ocean wave energy conversion system.

Deeper ocean waves move horizontally across a plane. Their motion causes vertical orbital turbulence in substrata to depth corresponding with the size and period of the wave. Pressure beneath and viscous shear diminish water particle motion. Relative movement between two spherical buoys reveals significant change from effective wave motion. Considering one buoy, floating at hydroface with a rod attached to it,  and another neutrally submerged buoy, with a tube attached to it, suspended at essentially undisturbed strata by an air to weight ratio- the volume of contained air to the weight of its container plus the attached tube: ocean wave passage reciprocates the rod inside the tube. However, horizontal wave forces push the floating buoy away from the submerged buoy and hampers natural return to vertical position. If another rod, with a weight mass secured on one end, is attached to the bottom of the submerged buoy (with mass subtracted from the original buoy mass) a self-righting air to weight configuration is achieved. Balance remains tenuous. A most stable assembly is obtained if the width of the weight is greater than the submerged sphere diameter. The arrangement simply resembles a cone having apex pointed in an upward direction. A lower damper base is not unlike the rotated stance of a defensive boxer preparing to receive a punch. With regard to readily manufactured components, this conical form translates to the general shape of connectable tetrahedron modules. Distributed power generation means convert water wave fields to electricity.