Tag: Wave Power - Page 2
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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
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Will Wave Farms Attract Sharks? Wend Magazine Investigates
One way to to get a sense of Wend magazine might be to imagine it as the love child spawn by a wild night of passion between Outside magazine and TreeHugger. It's a joyous celebration of being out there amongst the wind, rain and sun, whilst
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Carbon Neutral Sailboat Rescued by Oil Tanker
What is it about those Brit's and their love of extreme danger... Last week we had the Catlin Arctic expedition in trouble and today we have the Carbon Neutral Expedition's sailboat being saved by an oil tanker (gulp) of all
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion: Lockheed Martin Hopes to Bring It Closer to Financial Viability
We've written about generating power through ocean thermal energy conversion on a couple of occasions, and though it's currently just a small niche in the marine power world, the New York Times is highlighting work being done by
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Congress Members to DOE: We Want $250 Million for Wave Power Research
For sheer diversity of approach, you've got to admire all the different ways people are trying to generate power from the waves, tides and oceans in general. Now members of both the House and Senate are urging the Department
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What is Blue Energy Anyway? Two Takes on Osmotic Power
Here's one more way to harness the power of water to create energy: It's been dubbed Blue Energy by Ode Magazine in a recent article and involves harnessing the energy released from the process of osmosis. All you need for
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US Agencies Reduce Red Tape on Offshore Renewable Energy Project Approval
Developers of offshore wind power projects in the United States may still have to worry about financing, but the amount of bureaucratic red tap that has to be untangled will now be less of a hassle. Secretary of the
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Portugal's Pelamis Wave Power Project Dead In the Water
TreeHugger has touted how cool the Pelamis wave power device on a number of occasions, as well its implementation in the €9 million Aguçadoura project in Portugal. Well, that 2.5 MW adventure has come to an end. Citing
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10-30 MW Wave Power Project Touted by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
Though slightly skimpy on details, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was quite enthusiastic about the City by the Bay taping into its wave power potential over at CleanTechnica. Though I don't think
