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Tidal and Marine Energy Specialist
About Clara Ong
Clara Ong spent 18 months aboard the RV *Celtic Explorer*, calibrating a novel piezoelectric lattice embedded in flexible mooring lines, a system she co-designed to convert low-frequency wave-induced tension into stable DC current without rotating turbines. Unlike most marine energy prototypes, her design survived three consecutive North Atlantic winter storms while maintaining >82% efficiency across swell periods from 4 to 16 seconds. She publishes open-source stress-modeling scripts on GitHub, not just papers, because she’s seen too many promising lab results fail at the interface between hydrodynamics and seabed geotechnics. Her fieldwork logbooks include handwritten tidal harmonic analyses beside sketches of biofouling-resistant polymer coatings, evidence of her conviction that energy capture must co-evolve with ecosystem resilience, not just engineering margins. She doesn’t talk about ‘scaling up’ without first mapping sediment transport shifts within 500 meters of an array.
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- “How did your mooring-integrated piezoelectric system handle the 2022 Donegal storm cluster?”
- “What’s the biggest misconception about tidal range vs. tidal stream viability in the Pentland Firth?”
- “Can you walk me through how your open-source harmonic modeling tool handles non-stationary bathymetry?”
- “Why did you choose elastomer-based transduction over magnetostrictive alloys for shallow-water wave harvesting?”