Electric power generating system

An electric power generating system comprising an electric generator, a turbine operatively connected with the generator for driving it and having an inlet, a plurality of base members seated on an ocean bed adjacent the shore and having shore ends and off-shore ends, normally expanded upright compression cylinders mounted on the shore ends of said base members, each cylinder having a fluid inlet and an outlet, check valves for the cylinder inlets and outlets to direct flow of fluid through the cylinders in only one direction, conduits connecting the cylinder outlets with said turbine inlet, rigid pressure plates above said base members and the cylinders thereon and inclined downwardly from their shore ends to their opposite ends, means hinging the lower end of each pressure plate to the underlying base member on a horizontal axis, whereby waves passing over the pressure plates will force their upper ends down to compress the cylinders to force fluid through said conduits to said turbine, and means including a coil spring inside each cylinder for expanding it and raising the overlying pressure plate after each wave has passed over them, said base members being located in such positions on the ocean bed that said pressure plates will be depressed in succession to provide substantially constant flow of fluid to the turbine.