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• wired.comThis imaginative turn-of-the-century drawing predicted that wave-energy generators, like Duffy's Wave Motor, would be "a source of power for various purposes."
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This imaginative turn-of-the-century drawing predicted that wave-energy generators, like Duffy's Wave Motor, would be "a source of power for various purposes."
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The future is here and the possibilities are infinite.
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