Visitors are drawn from afar by the gentle, rhythmic sound of waves breaking against a beach.  Their curiosity is piqued.  They begin to explore this exhibit.  They soon realize they can release water from atop the dam, into the turbine.  A view port in the side of the turbine’s enclosure lets visitors look into the center of the turbine itself, where they clearly see water spin the turbine’s blades.  Looking to the far end of the exhibit, visitors discover they can vary the angle of the waves that are constantly washing ashore.

The beauty, motion and sound of this exhibit have successfully captivated your visitors.

Their fascination building, visitors watch the motions of the gently swaying, submerged yellow and red assemblies.  Experimenting by changing the angle of the waves (waves are automatically generated by this exhibit) that move across this “Ocean’s” surface, visitors can make observations from above the waves and also from beneath the waves by peering through the glass side windows.  They see how the changes they make in wave angle play out in changes to the rhythmic dance of the submerged yellow and red “pump” assemblies.  Visitor’s inquisitiveness draws them into observing how wave action causes the yellow balloons to rhythmically move closer and further away from the red cylinder pumps.  Seeking to know more, they turn to locate nearby text panels.
Curiosity ignited, they are now eagerly searching.  This is the best moment to teach.

Because this beautiful exhibit first intrigued them and then drew them towards our text, we can now mention climate change with a rare tone in our voice.  Not the all too frequent doom and gloom.  Instead, this exhibit is a very positive answer to a quite real and utterly depressing problem.  We all consume electricity every day.  How can we live our lives without having such a terrible impact upon Earth’s climate?  This is one way.

About 40% of the world’s man-made CO2 comes from coal fired power plants, while only about 15% comes from all the cars and trucks on the planet. This exhibit displays currently available technology (used in an economically viable manner) to produce electricity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  It can replace the worst sources of man-made CO2, coal fired power plants.  This system can make a difference, soon.

If you wish, your nearby text panels can discuss many things, including perhaps:
1)      How it’s estimated that 95% of the CO2 from the exhaust of the first Model T is still in our air.  This accumulation of CO2 is increasing rapidly.  The largest contributors are the world’s coal fired power plants.  Ask if the exhibited system should replace coal fired plants?  Or is it better to wait, hoping for zero impact solutions to appear?
2)      How a similar pumping system is being built in waters off the coast of Australia, but without my displayed onshore lake for energy storage.  There, whatever water is currently being pumped by wave action is pushed into a turbine, producing electricity.
3)      How lakes are a huge storehouse of energy, and can meet electrical demands even when wave action is low and power demands peak on hot summer afternoons.
4)      Unlike land based wind mill farms which are visible from over 20 miles away, these submerged pumps are not visible from shore.  Scuba divers will see them swaying like a Kelp forest.  The inflated balloons will gently deflect off of a whale if bumped.  The system can be placed in locations that do not support seafloor plant life. 
5)      When a wave peak passes overhead, it lifts the yellow balloon, and when the following wave trough passes overhead, the yellow balloon descends.  Each such cycle pumps seawater up into the man made lake behind the Hydroelectric Dam.

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