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Energy Innovation Network

Presentations by:

Shawn Ryan, Director of Bombora Wave Power Pty Ltd

Wave power and supercomputing

Garry Baverstock AM, B.Arch, MSc, LFRAIA Director, Ecotect-Architects

Where does Solar Energy fit into the Big Energy Future?

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Shawn Ryan, Director of Bombora Wave Power Pty Ltd

Shawn Ryan is a qualified mechanical engineer with 15 years consulting experience across a variety of industry sectors including, oil and gas, mining and heavy industry (power generation and petrochemical) working for companies such as SKM/Jacobs, Rio Tinto, JP Kenny, Apache, Aibel, Burrup Fertilisers and Tenaga Nasional Berhad. Shawn is a co-inventor of the technology, co-founder and Executive Director of Bombora Wave Power.

Shawn’s presentation will highlight how high end applied research is at the forefront of driving Bombora’s innovation and commercialisation. Bombora is currently using the Pawsey Supercomputer for the modelling and simulation of its technology.

The Bombora system’s flexible membrane and simple valving, squeezes air through a closed circuit and extracts energy with an air turbine to generate electricity. Rated at 1.5MW, each unit may have the potential to supply renewable electricity or 500 homes or deliver 1GL of desalinated water each year, comparable to the equivalent greenhouse gas benefit of taking approximately 825 cars off the road.

Established in 2011, Bombora Wave Power Pty Ltd is a 100% Australian privately held company based in Perth. Bombora is the outright owner and developer of the Intellectual Property and the Bombora Wave Energy Conversion System. Bombora’s system is award winning having previously received an international GE Ecomagination Challenge 2013 award, was a semi-finalist in the Australian Clean Technology Competition 2013 and a finalist in the 2013 WA Innovator of the Year.

Garry Baverstock AM, B.Arch, MSc, LFRAIA Director, Ecotect-Architects

Garry Baverstock was awarded an Order of Australia in 2006 for his work in architectural education and the environment, is a multi-award winning architect, and scientist.

He won the prestigious National Energy Award in 1993 and is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Engineering. He is a director of Wise Earth P/L that is a broad spectrum enterprise that is involved in land and built environment developments, sustainable architecture and consulting via his firm Ecotect-Architects along with solar and low energy technology research, development and manufacturing.

Socio/economic and political forces are often conflicting and competing with each other in the energy sector. The logical solution does not necessarily take precedence initially but with time reality abides. We need a smooth transition from the old carbon polluting technologies to a much cleaner and diverse approaches, in a way that improves our economy rather than destroy it.

Getting the energy mix right and creating fair and reasonable opportunities for all energy sectors should engender practical evolutionary changes to the way we generate and use energy. Innovation and technological change is and will continue affect everything, especially the energy sector of our economy.

The built environment has the biggest influence on our lives and responsible for most of the carbon pollution in our economy. Energy efficiency, sustainable planning and use of new emerging technologies could greatly reduce this impact and at the same time generate better economic results. Game changing projects will help this process.

Understanding the macro to the micro is the key to getting more insight of how energy generation will complement the innovations currently occurring in the built environment. Garry will explain why and how this is so.