Dear Friends,

I'd like to comunicate our experience in this interesnting field of knowledge. Our main goal was at first, only "learn to learn" from Nature. For this, what first we done was study a local specie that lives in "La Albufera" in Valencia (Spain), and of course in USA, to see if it was possible take "a book from the biggest library in the world" (one specie from Nature).

Our modus operandi was: select a problem, take a target specie, study morphologies, simplify, extract solutions, and... serendipity.

Our first problem was that we did'nt know how to take data without damaging the animals. The problem was solved with the information thanks to the Texas University and Mr T. Rowe, in the interesting page of Digimorph.org, were there are amounts of MRI that can be used by permision and for research pursuits. After that, we had a 3D image of the flamingo's head, but no knowledge about how did this extraordinary things with its beak.

After that, we needed the asistance of biologists, and specialists who explained us the extrange way that the flamingo take its nutrients from water, and skulls and prototipes to understanding how water moves into beak. We thought about emulating this beak for variate pursuits (like mining, construction, etc). It was this way that "serendipity" taked its part. We return reading Janine's wonderful work, tryied to find solutions in Pettigrew's books, but it was very difficult to emulate. We needed to "simplify"

There come to us another gift: the "herodontus portjatsoni" egg. It's a very interesting morphology that has the egg added to the helix. After that, another living morphologies come to our help (mammals heart, jellyfish, etc.), and we tryied to understand the "mathematics of life" through the Lawrence Edwards book "the vortex of life".

We did several prototipes, but no one of they were efficient. On the way, we were learning how to use this big "library", but we had the solution in our noses and we were blind: the flamingo gived us an interesting "turbine", that has one interesting characteristic: rotates in the same direction independent that water direction. Its only an idealitization of flamingo's beak, but it works. We gone to the Politechnical University of Valencia, and a PhD in Ingenierring said us that the "fireproof" was "to confront two inversed water flows".

We done, and it works.

What's the purpose of this? Wave energy. All technologies are based on convert sinusoidal movement to rotational one, but the flamingo's beak is always doing this only due to the "morphologies power" and only in one movement. Now we have prototipes, and soon we'll going to have our web page, trying to profit this great amount of energy that is the sea wave power.

The most important of that is that our inspiration come through mixing engineering with a very great respecto for Nature, and of course to the briliant talks and books of Janine M. Benyus.

Soon, at www.biomival.es . I'll link a little article about this. We like Nature's Mentors!

Raparicio, I didn't get it.

What is the relation of the Flamingo's beak and wave energy?

As I understand the structure in their beak is only used to extract nutrients from shallow waters near the sea shore.

How do you extract energy with that?