From Matt Etxebarne’s video in a wave pool: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVgxbehCgW2/
I started wondering that, because in foiling we don’t really need a breaking wave we could use another approach to wave pools and get “perpetual” waves with much less energy.
The current “surfeable” approach to wave pools is by the nature of the waves we want to surf, really inefficient. There’s a transformation of mechanical energy to wave energy, that gets dissipated by the wave breaking, and then the remaining gets dissipated again to get “calmer” waters for cleaner waves.
But a foil oriented wave pool could work differently by mantaining a perpetual wave through reflexion and resonance. By carefully crafting the pool, one could generate a wave that just travels around in a periodic way, with a slight push on each iteration to mitigate the lost energy on the reflexion.
The market is way smaller, but the cost of running it would be minimal too. It could get boring after a while, but I’d love to get bored of riding waves!
PS: Wavegarden, si estáis interesados, DM y me paso por Aizarnazabal