Wave Boss Takes On World With His Oyster
Martin McAdam is a man on a mission. The boss of AquamarinePower is making waves in more ways than one, as one of the nineteen companies joining us in here in San Francisco. His company designs and manufactures the innovative Oyster device, which is the world’s largest working hydro-electric wave energy converter.
Writing for Director Magazine, Martin has been sharing some of his thoughts about the Clean and Cool Mission;
Many of the great travel writers say that the journey is as important as the destination. For air travellers I doubt this is the case anymore. At the airport, you are probed and detected. A free government massage might be attractive to some but I find it quite disturbing. And no, we don’t fly business class. Equity at this stage in a start-up has better uses. Even though it is already dark when we arrive, the city is spectacular. You see the Bay Bridge lit up and the downtown buildings just being American: tall and confident.
Clean & Cool seems to have grown out of the original UK Web Missions to California’s Silicon Valley. You can imagine that when a Web mission came to California everybody was into the latest digital communications. With Clean & Cool you have a bunch of engineers who care about bubble physics, building materials, diamond semiconductors, or in the case of my business, Aquamarine Power, wave energy.
Read the rest of this entry here on Director Magazine’s site.
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