Hey,
Well I am ectually just starting to form ideas about what subject I am going to do my project. In january we have the first real talks about it, so I'm early. I have to do my project in english because I am following bilingual education, although I mailed in english because the site here is in english...
I have done some research about wave energy already. It is to bad that in the netherlands the don't really use it yet, but I thought I had heard somewhere that Delft university had worked together with people in the UK to test new models?
My idea had come from a Landal Greenpark which is going to be build close by, and houses build on the water I had seen somewhere. So I thought, if you could make several houses floating on the water, for tourists or a holiday that would be totally knew and cool with a different vibe.
Because the netherlands is surrounded by water and we almost use no water energy, this intrigued me. Combining those two subjects is quite wide, but for the moment I would like to keep it that way.
Floating houses are often build in concrete boxes, and I thought that you could maybe put a screw, propellor beneath it which would start turning because of the current. Or you could do something with the energy of a open space on the bottem of the house (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golfenergie method three, don't know the english name) What do you think about that? And does it matter that the house is so heavy in comparison to how much in moves on the waves?
I would like to build a model of the house quite sure and perhaps also of the wave energy thing, depending on what method I would use, which seems really difficult but interesting...