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Stephen Hugh Salter, MBE, FRSE (7 December 1938 – 23 February 2024) was a South African-born Scottish academic who was Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Edinburgh and inventor of the eponymous Salter's duck wave energy device.
Stephen Hugh Salter (1938–2024) was an Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Edinburgh and inventor of the eponymous Salter duck wave energy device.
Mar 1, 2024 · Stephen died on Friday 23 February 2024, at the age of 85. Best known as the ‘Father of Wave Energy’ and specifically as the inventor of the Edinburgh Duck, a device to generate megawatt-scale electricity from ocean waves, Stephen had a fertile mind for solutions to technically challenging problems.
Stephen Hugh Salter's long career includes being part of the team that developed Freddy the robot in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh – the first intelligent robot with tactile manipulator (as designed and built by Stephen).
Now working on climate engineering, Salter has pioneered a method of marine cloud brightening - wherein a fleet of vessels would spray a very fine mist of w...
Apr 10, 2007 · Stephen Salter, the father of wave power, has seen technology fall from favour only to come back into fashion. His new device aims to tackle global warming. Stuart Nathan reports
Stephen Salter, Emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, has been one of the leading voices of this movement. In the 1970s, when Salter was working on waves and tidal power, he came...
