"Much like Blackberry, KSWC pioneered a new technology. And like Blackberry, KSWC is stubbornly hanging onto its original blueprint."
If you ever have the good fortune to grace the fabled Kelly Slater wavepool in Lemoore, California, you will be awed by its size, the shore where the right extinguishes itself after one minute of riding barely able to be seen, even with squinted eyes.
I rode the joint in 2017, nine waves lassoed, and have yet to sight or command a wave, even close to as good.
Therefore, a terrific surprise this morning when a wavepool expert slammed the Kelly Slater Wave Co pool as “obsolete the day it was unveiled.”
Skip Taylor, a Partner of Surf Park Management told wavepool mag, the reason there hadn’t been another Slater tank built since it’s unveiling in December 2015 was that,
“What happens time after time is once people start to dig into the financial feasibility and see the limited capacity, the large footprint of the venue, the scale of civil construction, and the awkwardness of the pool shape to build around, KSWC quickly gets dismissed in most cases.”
Meanwhile, Wavegarden, Perfect Surf and Endless Surf, smaller, modular tech, dominate the market.
Author of the comprehensive story, Evan Quarnstrom, posits,
I liken the position of Slater’s pool to the Blackberry cell phone circa 2010.
Blackberry was a pioneer in the cell phone space and even the preferred option of then US president Barack Obama. They had an industry-leading 43% of the market share in the US at their peak.
Then came the iPhone with its touchscreen technology.
Blackberry insisted on sticking with a keyboard. Their complacency spelled the beginning of the end. After an initial aversion to transition with the market trends and a far-too-late attempt to enter the smartphone market, the Blackberry cell phone finally sputtered to an inevitable death with its final model in 2018.
Much like Blackberry, KSWC pioneered a new technology – in this case a wave that could mimic the power of the ocean. And like Blackberry, KSWC is stubbornly hanging onto its original blueprint. As markets demand a smaller pool with a higher wave rate, KSWC is sticking to its guns.
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Race Wars™️ never end well for The Brown People™️
You are 1000% correct…follow the money!
The Feds have a trillion dollar budget, my state has a 200+ billion budget, and my county has a 3+ billion dollar budget.
Oh yeah…nearby NYC has a 100+ billion dollar budget.
So yes, it’s all about the money because money means control.
And the only way to fix that is significantly smaller government and that’s almost impossible until large municipalities go bankrupt.
Remember how the hard core Lefties always said…”real Communism has never been tried?”
Well that’s where we are with The Right is Fascist™️.
Nothing exemplifies that more than vaccine mandates and other draconian, non scientific Covid policy.
Forcing you to take an experimental drug to feed, clothe and shelter yourself was as Fascist a thing as has even been done.
And now we know that the vaccines were mostly junk science. Masking was junk science.
I’m with you on the Giant Meteor but you lost me with the rest of it.
I guess if we’re looking at treasonous behavior it’s a simple question…do you consider the BLM riots (and the Democrats substantial support for them) and the Jan 6th riots as the same thing?
Large nuclear reactors in remote-ish locations (just like that gigantic solar farm in the CA desert and off shore windmill farms) are the best solutions for powering the country.
Tomorrow is going to be a super rough day for you.
As is January 2025.
Again…what are the effects of lithium mining and discarded batteries?
Teslas don’t last forever.
Or like a submarine, aircraft carrier or even a DeLorean?
But do you really want your half wit neighbor operating his own nuclear reactor?
I mean…most people don’t want you to have a gun in your house let alone Chernobyl.
Does solar produce energy 24 hours per day?
Nuclear does.
And at the volume needed to power everything you want it to.
Do what the landscape industry doing…plant a wall facade….imbed speakers and just drown that train with ACDC.
https://suburbanmen.com/wp-…
Home based power generation is still dependent on the internal combustion engine.
You can argue decentralized/centralized until the cows come home but right now nuclear is the best solution.
Correct…Starlink and the rest of it risk colliding into each other every day.
Space Force makes over a million observations a day and it’s probably going to get worse.
Wavepools have a magazine?
that’s what they do here in New England, USA — in Canada they flood even bigger forests to build hydro electric dams for NYC — the drowned trees release their carbon, never to be taken up by baby trees in that area — the size of New York state.
Their solar panels don’t work at night.
Please don’t be dumb and assume that a low electric bill means you are “off the grid.”
and the batteries are toxic
first they clear cut huge forests to build the solar farms
Crazy amount of white washing since it opened. We can’t forget brown waves existed here first.
“The Inertia and the wave pools are static. For example, Surfrider’s State of the Beach Report Finds Coastal States Most At Risk Are Least Prepared For Climate Impacts . BeachGrit is dynamic. By that I mean we all know that the KSWM is an effort to swtich ThePeeps from the at risk coastline and was built in anticipation of catastrophic wipe-outs…BG will outlive us all!” Napoleon Dynamite
Nobody said it doesn’t, but overall it’s a fairly safe/reliable option. We have a couple here, so far so good.
why won’t the insurance industry cover it? nukes get insurance free from the US govt
thanks, Jack