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  • And as far as all the water on the earth goes, the oceans hold 97% of it.

  • Now, you might think that those massive C is teeming with all their life would be a good potential source of energy and you'd be right.

  • The challenge is finding a way to harness that ocean energy.

  • And the subject of our tomorrow's hero report has done exactly that.

  • The sea was a big part of my life growing up most of our time as Children were spent on the beach constantly seeing the power of the breaking ways.

  • I really knew from firsthand the importance of renewable energy.

  • My name is in a Braverman.

  • I'm 31 I'm the co founder of Eco Wave Power that was actually born in Ukraine.

  • Two weeks after I was born, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded, causing the largest in history nuclear disaster.

  • And I was actually one of the babies that suffered from the explosion.

  • I knew from a very, very engaged that I got a second chance in life and I want to do something good with it.

  • Equal wave power developed a unique technology for a generation of clean electricity from ocean and sea waves.

  • We install floaters on existent breakwaters and other type of ocean structures and the floaters air going up and down with the wave movement and are generating clean electricity from these resource thereby we don't create any new presence on the ocean floor were just connected to a manmade existence structure.

  • Most of the companies they took all the conversion equipment and put it inside actual floater.

  • In our case, we put on Lee the floaters in the water, all the rest of the equipment on land.

  • This enabled a low price and high reliability.

  • Most people, they speak about pollution, but they don't really feel from first hand the effects of pollution.

  • I really hope that all these countries, developing countries and even developed countries will use this type of technology as a means off the mitigating the pollution wave.

  • Energy is a huge resource, and it's completely untapped in the world at the moment.

  • I always say that passion is the greatest renewable energy source.

And as far as all the water on the earth goes, the oceans hold 97% of it.

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