News tagged with floating platform

Deep Gulf drilling thrives 18 mos. after BP spill

(AP) -- Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean's surface than ever before.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Danish engineers planning manned space craft

(PhysOrg.com) -- A couple of Danish engineers are working towards launching a human being into space.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Study shows stability and utility of floating wind turbines (w/ Video)

Wind turbines may be one of the best renewable energy solutions, but as turbines get larger they also get noisier, become more of an eyesore, and require increasingly larger expanses of land. One solution: ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast




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Everyone knows it's windy . . .

... And now they have the data to prove it.  The middle of Lake Michigan is a vast, untapped reservoir of wind energy. The next step will be to find out if it can be harvested economically without harming ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow

(Phys.org) -- A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River today (Wednesday, May 9) in a field test organized by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley. The smartphone-equipped ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Total diverts gas cloud away from stricken North Sea rig

French energy giant Total said Thursday it had succeeded in diverting gas that is leaking from a platform in the North Sea so that it no longer gathers in a cloud around the wellhead.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

The 3D Lyrid meteor shower

This weekend, NASA scientists, amateur astronomers, and an astronaut on board the International Space Station will attempt the first-ever 3D photography of meteors from Earth and space.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Total plans relief wells to stop North Sea gas leak

Total is preparing to sink two relief wells to stop a gas leak at a North Sea platform in parallel with a plugging operation, a senior company executive said Friday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's astrobiology research sparks 'GreenTech' revolution

NASA’s astrobiologists study microbial life to understand how it transformed a rocky Earth into the thriving, diverse, life-sustaining planet we inhabit today. These studies of photosynthetic ‘green’ ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Italian engineer invents floating solar panels

Rays of the winter sun bounce off gleaming mirrors on the tiny lake of Colignola in Italy, where engineers have built a cost-effective prototype for floating, rotating solar panels.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Researchers eye monitoring system for offshore wind energy impacts

The next generation of wind energy facilities in the United States may be built offshore where winds are stronger, floating platforms could be utilized, and links to power grids may already exist.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UA makes mirrors for world's largest telescope

(PhysOrg.com) -- The second of seven 27-foot diameter mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope was cast on Jan. 14 inside a rotating furnace at the UA's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Comprehensive study makes key findings of ocean pH variations

A group of 19 scientists from five research organizations have conducted the broadest field study of ocean acidification to date using sensors developed at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 10 | with audio podcast


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