Scientists create revolutionary tool to help power over 20 million homes: ‘Developers can spend more of their time building better devices’ – MSN
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The new device, the marine and hydrokinetic toolkit, was developed jointly by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. It offers validation and standardized analysis tools to help researchers figure out whether their wave energy-gathering technologies are going to be viable without forcing them to undergo expensive and difficult real-world testing.
The tool was deployed in 2020 and has been used by around 29,000 researchers.
“Before, most [marine renewable energy] developers were forced to build their own tools for data processing and analysis,” said Andrew Simms, a data scientist at NREL and one of the developers of the tool. “Now, MHKiT gives everyone a head start on data analysis. If we can make analysis as easy and painless as possible, developers can spend more of their time building better devices.”