In the new world of power shortages, global warming and urban pollution, it is more important than ever to bring utility scale production of clean, carbon-free, locally sourced energy to vast areas of the world. To speed up this process Bourne is developing a self-contained micro-factory that can be shipped by ocean container, uncrated and set up almost anywhere in the world to mass-manufacture OceanStars. The manufacturing system and ocean power technology are patented by Bourne Energy.

Bourne’s OceanPowerDams can mediate the risks to coastlines and breakwaters from the ravages of storms. They can serve as weather warning systems; water quality sensor grids warning coastal authorities of oil spillage; as well as sensor laden security/surveillance barriers guarding coastal waters. In the future, Bourne plans to adapt the technology to water distillation and hydrogen production.

This alternative energy technology will prove particularly useful for high energy consuming industrialized countries that do not control oil resources but are in close proximity to high density ocean energy fields. In Asia that includes China, Japan, Korea and Australia; while in Europe that includes Germany, France, Netherlands, Scotland and Portugal. OceanPowerDams will augment current fossil fueled centralized energy generation with a more flexible, multi-sourced, global energy system. It will join a growing number of diverse energy technologies — solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower and biofuel — that share a common thread - they do not deplete natural resources, harm the environment or are sourced outside the host country.