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Columbia Power provided the majority of
funding to upgrade the WESRF Lab facility with an advanced 10 kW Linear Test Bed (LTB)
for rapid prototyping of wave energy devices. The LTB is designed to
generate force and velocity profiles similar to those generated by ocean waves.
This enables dynamic and controlled testing of the devices in the
lab, which is more cost effective and not subject to weather windows. The LTB
is able integrate captured wave profiles from ocean monitoring buoys,
in order to more accurately simulate the response to forces from ocean waves.
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