The project champions made a successful application for funding from the European Union’s Joule programme, which resulted in the EU contributing a little over 36% of the total costs. Based on this design, a 16-turbine plant was built in the Bay of Biscay in Spain, the Mutriku Breakwater Wave Plant, which was fully operational and handed over to the company in 2011.

They were first conceived in the 1970s during the oil crisis. The PTO system converts the airflow into energy.

The Incredible Mr. Limpet is a 1964 American live-action/animated comedy film produced by Warner Bros. and based on the 1942 novel Mr. Limpet by Theodore Pratt.It is about a man named Henry Limpet who turns into a talking fish resembling a tilefish and helps the U.S. Navy locate and destroy Nazi submarines.