Yes, there is lots of room for development, and connected ideas.
Where waves are available, the wind turbine might not be needed. Waves tend to happen mostly where water is shallow. Anyway, idea is that you have a big, floating, anchored fabric tube with rim held above mean surface level, that waves slop into. Once water is in, the only exit is way down deep. So more water slops in all the time, and moves down under the weight of what comes in after it.
Then, you need no wind turbine, no pumps, no moving parts at all; just anchors, floats, a surface frame, and a few thousand square yards of very tough fabric.
The tube doesn't need to go straight down. It could collect water in (relative) shallows and exhaust it some distance off, at cost of just more fabric.
Where waves are available, the wind turbine might not be needed. Waves tend to happen mostly where water is shallow. Anyway, idea is that you have a big, floating, anchored fabric tube with rim held above mean surface level, that waves slop into. Once water is in, the only exit is way down deep. So more water slops in all the time, and moves down under the weight of what comes in after it.
Then, you need no wind turbine, no pumps, no moving parts at all; just anchors, floats, a surface frame, and a few thousand square yards of very tough fabric.
The tube doesn't need to go straight down. It could collect water in (relative) shallows and exhaust it some distance off, at cost of just more fabric.