Deck:
The solution to California's crisis may have been lapping at the beach.
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Turns out those surfer dudes (and dudettes) may have been riding on the wave of the future. The California Energy Commission recently awarded Dr. Asfaw Beyene, a mechanical engineering professor at San Diego State University, a $120,000 grant to study the feasibility of using ocean swells as a potential source of renewable energy.
And we thought gas-fired peakers were the way to go.
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