The government said the prize is open to teams from around the world.
The Scottish government announced today that it's offering up a $20 million prize for innovation in wave and tidal power, saying its the world's largest ever single prize for innovation in marine energy.
The government said the Saltire Prize is open to teams from around the world, but that entrants for the competition would demonstrate their projects in Scotland.
A saltire is an X-shaped cross, featured on the flag of Scotland.
"Scotland won the natural lottery with oil and gas in the 1970s and has won it again in its potential for planet-saving renewable energy," said Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond.
"Our Saltire Prize is a call to action to scientists around the world to help bring the power of the seas around Scotland ... on-line that much sooner."
Scotland is home to what is currently the only full-scale wave and tidal power testing site, in Orkney.
On the other side of the the Atlantic, Nova Scotia is looking at putting in its own test site (see Bay of Fundy to get three test turbines).
"With demonstration of the ideas in Scotland, the Saltire Prize will deliver clear economic benefits at home as well as pushing forward the boundaries of research with a world-wide impact and benefit," said Salmond.
Scotland has set a target to provide 50 percent of its electricity demand from renewables by 2020.
The government hopes to hit a milestone of 31 percent by 2011, which it said would be the equivalent of 5,000 megawatts of installed capacity.
Full details of the Saltire Prize challenge will be announced on St. Andrew's Day, on Nov. 30, at Edinburgh Castle.
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PROPOSAL
Three systems are herein proposed to produce power irrespective of availability of renewable energy. They excel all others.
1. Wave Air Pump - WAP:
Compresses air and feed it into the air inlet of a turbo generator, inject fuel as needed to maintain turbo generator output irrespective of wave heights.
2. Wind Turbine Pump – WTP
A wind turbine directly drives an air compressor, collects the compressed air in a piping network and feeds it to the air inlet of a turbo generator.
3. Wave Water Pump - WWP:
Lifts a small quantity of water to a high head and feed it to a hydro-turbo generator to produce power, or compressed air to feed another turbo generator and act as a WAP
A set of pumps up to ten, or a set of wind turbines a mile wide as needed may be installed in line with the incoming wave or wind, to extract most of its energy. The proposed systems can generate dependable electric power at competitive cost.
For Details visit www.renewableenergypumps.com
This is an invitation for collaboration.
Shamil Ayntrazi, PE