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More info on this at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelamis_Wave_Energy_Converter .
The company was bought by E.ON and the project was killed. At that time, there were working 450 Kilowatt prototypes (see the video). 450 Kilowatt is a power volume that took wind power plants over three decades (about from 1970 to 2000) to achieve.
The technology was then apparently copied by a Chinese company.
You’re right that waves and wind don’t necessarily overlap, they most often do anyway.
Have you ever been standing at a shore facing a large ocean, like the Scottish Outer Hebrides, Ireland, Bretagne, Portugal, Chile, California, Patagonia or Tasmania ?
And are you aware that wind power plants in the North See im winter sometimes can’t be serviced because the friggin waves are too high - over six meters ond more?
But that doesn’t mean anything about whether or not it’s windy at the same time.
If the waves are too severe to allow servicing of the wind turbines, how do you think you’re going to service wave generators? (yes, the answer is to wait until the sea and wind conditions are better)