📌 TOPINDIATOURS Eksklusif ai: World’s first 1MW onshore wave energy station gets g

A one-megawatt (MW) wave energy installation planned for Portugal’s northern coast has recently moved a step closer to construction after engineers confirmed favorable ocean conditions and finalized execution planning for the site.

Sweden’s onshore wave energy developer Eco Wave Power Global Ab. announced the completion of a detailed wave and structural load assessment for its planned installation at the Barra do Douro breakwater in Porto.

The firm carried out the analysis in cooperation with Rotterdam-based MetOcean Consult, a firm that specializes in numerical modeling of waves, currents, and marine environmental conditions.

“Portugal has established itself as a leader in renewable energy adoption, and we are proud that our Porto project contributes to the continued diversification of the country’s clean energy portfolio,” Inna Braverman, CEO and Founder of Eco Wave Power, noted.

Wave site cleared

The company submitted the full execution plan for the Porto project to the Port Authority of the Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo (APDL) on January 8, 2026. The submission marks a formal step toward construction and sets the project for final scheduling and on-site preparations.

“Accurate metocean data are essential for the safe and efficient development of marine renewable energy projects,” Marco Westra, MetOcean Consult managing director, stated.

Meanwhile, the station is expected to become the first megawatt-scale project delivered under the firm’s 20-MW concession agreement with APDL. It therefore represents a significant milestone in the firm’s broader rollout plans.

“Our analysis of the Barra do Douro breakwater shows wave- and wave loading conditions that are well suited to Eco Wave Power’s latest floater design, providing a solid technical foundation for the project as it advances toward execution,” Westra continued.

According to Eco Wave Power, the one-megawatt project has now moved toward the construction phase. The firm views the Porto site as a flagship deployment. It could demonstrate the commercial viability of onshore wave energy when integrated into existing coastal infrastructure.

A pioneering installation

The one-megawatt wave energy station in Porto has already reached several key milestones. These include the payment of the first installment covering 50 percent of the grid connection fee.

It has also received formal acceptance of the grid connection conditions from E-REDES, Portugal’s national electricity distribution system operator. Looking ahead, the company is targeting grid connection in 2026, pending final approvals.

“Completing the metocean assessment with MetOcean Consult and submitting our execution plan to APDL are important steps as we move this project from planning toward construction and grid connection,” Braverman said.

The company will install the system within a section of the breakwater known locally as “The Gallery.” The design embeds the wave energy equipment directly into the existing maritime structure

This approach reduces environmental impact, and simplifies maintenance and lower costs. “This initiative underscores our commitment to scaling wave energy solutions and delivering predictable, sustainable power from the world’s oceans,” Braverman concluded in a press release.

Eco Wave Power designed and operates Israel’s first grid-connected wave energy station. The project was co-funded by EDF Renewables IL. The firm also launched the first onshore wave energy pilot in the US. Located at the Port of Los Angeles, the project was developed in partnership with Shell Marine Renewable Energy.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com

📌 TOPINDIATOURS Update ai: Inventor Building AI-Powered Suicide Chamber Terbaru 20

The inventor of a controversial suicide pod is making sure his device keeps up with the times by augmenting it with AI tech — which, we regret to inform you, is not merely some sort of dark joke.

“One of the parts to the device which hadn’t been finished, but is now finished, is the artificial intelligence,” the inventor, Philip Nitschke, told the Daily Mail in a new interview.

Named the Sarco pod after the ancient sarcophagus, the euthanasia chamber, first built in 2019, has been championed by the pro-assisted dying organization The Last Resort. In 2024, it was used to facilitate the suicide of a 64-year-old woman in Switzerland. The 3D-printed pod is activated when the person seeking to take their own life presses a button, filling the sealed, futuristic-looking coffin with nitrogen that causes the user to lose consciousness and “peacefully” pass away within a few minutes.

To date, the woman’s death in Switzerland is the only case of the Sarco pod seeing real-world action. Soon after she died, Swiss authorities showed up at the sylvan cabin where the pod was located and arrested the late Florian Willet, then co-president of Last Resort, who was supervising her death, on suspicion of aiding and abetting a suicide. He was ultimately released two months later.  

Assisted dying is technically legal in Switzerland, but only if the person seeking suicide is deemed to have the mental capacity to make the decision, and only if they carry out the suicide themselves, rather than a third-party.

That last bit is why the patient presses the button to activate the chamber, a workaround that stands on legally shaky ground as it is (hence Willet’s arrest). Even more contestable is determining whether the patient is capable of making their mortal decision — which, of course, is where AI enters the picture.

As Nitschke was designing a “Double Dutch” version of the Sarco pod that would allow couples to die together, he stumbled on the idea of using AI to administer a psychiatric “test” to determine their mental capacity. If they pass the AI’s judgment, it activates the “power to switch on the Sarco.”

“That part wasn’t working when we first used the device,” Nitschke told the Daily Mail, referring to the 64-year-old woman’s death.

“Traditionally, that’s done by talking to a psychiatrist for five minutes, and we did that,” he explained. “She had a rather traditional assessment of mental capacity through a Dutch psychiatrist.”

“But with the new Double Dutch, we’ll have the software incorporated,” Nitschke continued, “so you’ll have to do your little test online with an avatar, and if you pass that test, then the avatar tells you you’ve got mental capacity.”

Passing the test will power on the Sarco for the next 24 hours, during which a person or couple can climb in and press the button to end it all. If they miss the day-long window, they’ll have to take the AI-administered test all over again.

How this will actually work in practice is as questionable as the promises of AI itself. AI models are prone to hallucinating, are alarmingly sycophantic, and have frequently failed when deployed in medical scenarios. Entrusting the tech to give the go-ahead to someone killing themselves — especially as AI chatbots are under the microscope for seemingly encouraging many adults and teenagers to take their own lives in cases of so-called AI psychosis — sounds like an ethical disaster waiting to happen.

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