Shmuel Ovadia stands on the pier at the Jaffa port December 12. where two of...

Shmuel Ovadia stands on the pier at the Jaffa port December 12. where two of his green metal buoys bobb about to draw energy from the sea. Ovadia said his wave energy converter is different from the 50 or so other systems developed worldwide because it exploits the underlying force of the wave and not just the waves height. The prototype will be able to generate up to 40 kilowatts of electricity per day, to build a plant which will create up to four megawatts per day that can light up a village of 40,000 households with a cost less than $0.02 per kilowatt. Picture taken 12 December 1998.