Tag: Wave Power
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Wave-Powered "Dolphin Speaker" Could Let Us Talk to Dolphins
Scientists have developed a piezoelectric speaker that can playback the full frequency range of dolphin sounds, getting us closer to human-dolphin communication.
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Wave Power ‘Sea Snake’ Inventor Honored
An inventor has been awarded for his novel technology for generating energy with waves.
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Artist Uses the Beach as Canvas for his Ephemeral Sand Art (Photos)
Andres Amador etches large intricate and organic patterns on beaches along the coast of California, with a rake as his paintbrush.
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Turning Water Into Electricity, Students Into Renewable Energy Experts
A hydropower turbine has the potential to not only create energy, but has also sparked the creation of both a renewable energy company and a renewable energy education program in Maine.
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New Wave Energy Device Could See 200 Commercial Units in the Next Five Years
The Searaser takes a novel approach to wave energy generation. New owners Ecotricity - pioneers of wind power in Britain - are aiming for mass deployment in the next five years.
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Alexis Madrigal on Powering the Dream (Podcast)
Wind turbines, solar cells, wave power. If you think these are newfangled technologies, think again. They were fangled long ago, and their story is the meat of Alexis Madrigal's new book, Powering the Dream. Madrigal (a senior editor at The Atlantic and
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Michigan Lawmakers Propose Ban on Offshore Wind in Great Lakes
Yeh. That's right. No offshore wind turbines on Michigan's Great Lakes. Coal-fired power plants are much more appealing: Beautiful
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Wave Power Delivers Electricity to US Grid For First Time
While wave power often seems like the poor cousin of the renewable energy world, and frankly doesn't have the practical potential of wind or solar power, tapping the power of the sea does have its place and this next one
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Swarms of Floating Marine Turbines Could Harvest Power from the Gulf Stream
While most marine power projects rely on turbines or other power-generating devices in relatively shallow water, researchers from Embry-Riddle
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World's Largest Tidal Turbine Unveiled in Scotland - Yes, It's Humongous
There are some big tidal turbines out there, but none so massive as the one pictured above: The Atlantis Resources AK1000, just unveiled in Scotland and due to be installed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney
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Cooper-Hewitt Showcases Design Projects That Could Change the World
In the last few years, many smart, innovative design projects have debuted that could potentially change the world as we know it -- many of which were covered here on TreeHugger. As part of its design triennial exhibition series, the Cooper-Hewitt, Nation
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Are We Running Out of Uranium? Let's Hope So
Can a nuclear weary TreeHugger really believe what she's hearing? Could uranium mines be facing shortages? Earlier this
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August Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
With floods besieging the Black Sea coast and fires raging in the Mediterranean, it was impossible to ignore the power of
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New York City's Waterfront Gets Extended With Wave Power
Richard Garber and Brian Novello of GRO Architects have designed an extension to New York City's piers that would harness tidal power from the city's rivers.
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Can Coral Reefs be Healed by Wave Power?
With almost half the world's coral reefs threatened with extinction and the rapid decline in the oceans' biodiversity, according to a recent report from the
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Canadian 200 MW Commercial Tidal Power Project Announced
Big new developments in tidal power have been pretty weak of late, but here's one which could amp things up a bit. World Energy Research and Blue Energy Canada have signed an agreement to develop a 200 MW commercial tidal
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Can a Green-Power Underachiever Reach its Full Potential?
Although only a paltry 1 percent of Turkey's power is currently provided by renewable sources, the country's sunny and strategic location, large surface area, and young population
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5 Boundary-Pushing Ways to Generate Renewable Energy
We all may still be suckling at the fossil fuel teat, but renewable energy certainly has broken into the mainstream at least in concept. There's still a long, long road ahead of us to bring enough green power online to
