Clean Motion
Electric marine vehicles, low-emission harbor systems, and experimental wave generation.
First experiment: PipeRunner
Clean machines for wild water.
A playful ocean innovation project exploring electric marine vehicles, artificial wave systems, and cleaner futures for the world's water.
The ridiculous question
What if a clean electric vessel could make a perfect wave?
Not a pool. Not a gimmick. A mobile hydrodynamic machine designed to explore whether motion, water displacement, and clean propulsion could create a controlled, surfable barrel.
yes, we know how it sounds
Concept · v0.1The first experiment
PipeRunner
An electric wave-making vessel concept inspired by the search for the perfect barrel — a speculative machine that uses controlled motion, hydrodynamic shaping, and clean propulsion to explore whether a pristine 6–8 foot barreling wave could be produced in controlled water environments.
- Electric or hybrid-electric propulsion
- Hydrodynamic foil/plow-inspired wave generation
- Designed for controlled lagoons, basins, or protected water environments
- Surf, research, tourism, and public demonstration potential
- Future cleanup and sensing payload integrations
Concept-stage exploration. Not currently an active commercial vessel.
Bigger than surfing
One wave machine is only the beginning.
Ocean Motions is a wider effort to make the ocean feel engineered, alive, and worth protecting — across three connected fronts.
Clean Water
Ocean cleanup technology, water-quality sensing, microplastic research, and coastal restoration.
Clean Culture
Media, campaigns, merch, surf and ocean storytelling, and public experiments.
The ocean should feel futuristic, not disposable.
Ocean Motions is a concept-stage ocean innovation project exploring electric marine vehicles, artificial wave systems, ocean cleanup technology, and water-quality sensing. Most environmental efforts make people feel guilty — we start with awe, humor, engineering, motion, and the almost unreasonable desire to leave the water cleaner than we found it.
Live
Current status: concept stage.
Ocean Motions is beginning with research, design exploration, public imagination, and early collaborator conversations across:
- Marine engineering
- Surf culture
- Ocean restoration
- Clean technology
v0.1
Exploration
Want to help move the ocean forward?
Engineers, surfers, marine builders, designers, researchers, sponsors, weirdos, and ocean people welcome.