OSU’s “direct-drive” buoy approaches allow electrical generators to respond directly to ocean waves.
Wave Power Prototypes

OSU’s “direct-drive” buoy approaches allow electrical generators to respond directly to ocean waves.
Taking an annual harvest of a quarter-million pounds of Dungeness from his 85-foot craft Ossian, this crabber brings a lifetime of ocean experience to his role as an “industry cooperator” with OSU.
There’s something serendipitous, almost poetic, about von Jouanne’s work in wave energy. Wallace was, in a sense, circling back when he teamed up with von Jouanne to puzzle out the problem of wave energy.
OSU’s “direct-drive” buoy approaches allow electrical generators to respond directly to ocean waves.
It just adds up — math education is about more than learning to add and subtract.
He was a Midwest kid, a self-described “technical nerd” who hung out with ham-radio buffs and fell in love with a girl who played flute to his percussion in the school band.