Source: Sophoia Friesan, WUNC, 8/11/22


It’s peak season at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head. By 8 a.m., the pier is already lined with anglers and sightseers, and the waves below are alive with schools of fish. Far out on the bright water, a white buoy marks the future location of a new addition to the pier: the test site for a machine designed to harness the energy of the waves to make clean drinking water. The prototype “wave energy converter” is scheduled to be deployed in the last two weeks of August for a ten-day trial run. If successful, the machine could help provide emergency drinking water for coastal communities cut off from other resources.

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