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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.
Bruh, did you seriously compare water waves with light and radio waves?
Just because the name is the same, it doesn’t mean the underlying physics are the same too.
Water waves for example are beholden to friction and a persistent gravity, something light and radio waves can mostly ignore (at least on the planetary scale).
The relevant aspects of physics is the same here: Energy moving through time and space. This is an aspect that all mentioned forms of waves - pressure waves, surface gravity waves, and electromagnetic waves do have in common.