MHT - Cranston, R.I.-based engineering firm Electro Standards Laboratories Inc. has teamed with the University of Rhode Island’s Ocean Engineering Department to help develop a new type of ocean drive mechanism, aimed at harvesting wave power. The project recently received a $200,000 collaborative research grant from the Rhode Island Science and Technology Council and will build on a previous collaboration between the two organizations that built the basic platform of the unit for the U.S. Navy through a Phase 1 SBIR grant.
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