Tag: Wave Power
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Concept for smarter wave power device a winner in GE's Ecomagination Challenge
The company says this system is simpler than other wave devices that need to be finely tuned to the waves to pick up their energy.
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Wave Power to Prove Its Mettle with 30 Megawatts to be Built Off Mexico's Coast
Wave power is the oft-forgotten cousin of solar and wind power. It has huge potential, but it is not quite as far along as the better known sources of clean power, so it tends to be overlooked.
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Architectural Sand Castles are Geometric Wonders
These sand "castles" are not your usual holiday beach creations.
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Distributed Energy Generation Would Produce More Than Gigantic Tidal Barrage
The Severn Barrage could create 50,000 jobs and provide 5% of the UK's electricity needs. Critics say we can do better than that.
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Solar and Wave-Powered Wave Glider Survives Hurricane Sandy, Transmits Dramatic Weather Data
The wave glider created by Iquid Robotics has passed quite a test for robustness. It coasted through the superstorm and provided real time weather data nonstop.
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Queen's Crown Estate Identifies 180GW of Potential Marine Power
The Crown Estate is Britain's largest landowner, and it owns an awful lot of coastline. It is also very interested in the potential for marine power.
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Beach Artists Use the Sand as Their Canvas
Sand castles are so yesterday, large-scale sand art is the thing to try.
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Feds Grant Ocean Power Technologies Permit to Build First Commercial Wave Farm in U.S.
Wave power is a promising source of clean energy, but it is usually overlooked because wind and solar power are farther along.
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Tidal Power Could Inject £3 Billion Each Year Into UK Economy
By 2050 wave and tidal power could supply 11% of current UK electricity demand.
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First Commercial Tidal Power Project in US Launches in Maine
Though only powering 75-100 homes at launch, the TidGen Cobscook Bay project, in Eastport, Maine, is slated to expand to ten times its initial size.
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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
