To an outsider, the gray stack of metal boxes piled on the gray concrete floor might look unimpressive. Machinery meant for storage, maybe. Leftovers from an experiment completed long ago. “It’s unassuming,” said Nathan Tom, a mechanical engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), “and sure doesn’t look much like a wave energy converter.”
Those boxes hide a unique testing platform that can merge virtual and physical worlds. Imagine a car-racing video game that connects to an actual car engine. That is what Tom and his colleagues built—except their platform is designed for up-and-coming wave energy technologies.
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