News tagged with ocean energy
Firms see tidal energy as wave of future
Moored in the channel, the little gray barge strains against a raging morning tide. The torrent soon will drain nearby rocky inlets and fishing harbors by 20 feet - as high as a two-story house - only to flood them again ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 25, 2010 |
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Large gaps found in public understanding of climate change
Sixty-three percent of Americans believe that global warming is happening, but many do not understand why, according to a national study conducted by researchers at Yale University.
Oct 14, 2010 |
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US lifts Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling ban
The United States lifted a ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed after the BP oil spill, but set operators tough new safety conditions, officials said.
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Plan to use submarines to subdue typhoons/hurricanes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Japanese hydraulic manufacturing company has unveiled plans to use submarines to downgrade the force of typhoons. The company, Ise Kogyo, from Mie in Central Japan, has had patents approved ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Scientists find 20 years of deep water warming leading to sea level rise
Scientists analyzing measurements taken in the deep ocean around the globe over the past two decades find a warming trend that contributes to sea level rise, especially around Antarctica.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2010 |
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World's biggest Wave Hub installed off UK coast
(PhysOrg.com) -- A wave energy generation test site called the "Wave Hub" is being set up off Cornwall’s northern coast. The site is the first offshore wave energy site in the UK, and will allow four wave ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 08, 2010 |
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China builds base to tap deep-sea energy: state media
China will build a multi-million-dollar research base on its east coast as it steps up its efforts to search for energy sources and rare earths on the ocean floor, state media said Friday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 27, 2010 |
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Powering Australia with waves
Wave energy is surging ahead as a viable source of renewable energy to generate electricity -- with Australia's southern margin identified by the World Energy Council as one of the world's most promising sites for wave-energy ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 17, 2010 |
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Generating energy from ocean waters off Hawaii
Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa say that the Leeward side of Hawaiian Islands may be ideal for future ocean-based renewable energy plants that would use seawater from the oceans' depths to ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 03, 2010 |
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'Plastiki' bottle ship to complete Pacific voyage
A boat made from 12,500 plastic bottles will leave New Caledonia for Sydney this week on the final leg of a voyage across the Pacific to raise environmental awareness, organisers said Tuesday.
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Stirring the ocean: Calculating the role of the oceans' swimmers
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's oceans, we know, are constantly shaken and stirred by the winds and the tides and other physical forces of nature. But what about fish and other swimming marine life? Do they stir ...
Jun 29, 2010 |
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CCNY leads study to identify top NJ tidal power generation sites
With a coastline stretching from New York Harbor to Cape May, New Jersey stands to benefit from a new study designed to pinpoint the top 20 sites for hydrokinetic energy, a renewable resource produced by the movement of tides, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Safely anchored at sea
(PhysOrg.com) -- Different layers of the seabed reflect sound waves in a specific way. German researchers are harnessing the benefits of this fact to efficiently track down suitable offshore sites for wind ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 04, 2010 |
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Early Earth absorbed more sunlight -- no extreme greenhouse needed to keep water wet
Four billion years ago, our then stripling sun radiated only 70 to 75 percent as much energy as it does today. Other things on Earth being equal, with so little energy reaching the planet's surface, all water ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 06, 2010 |
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NASA Demonstrates Novel Ocean-Powered Underwater Vehicle
NASA, U.S. Navy and university researchers have successfully demonstrated the first robotic underwater vehicle to be powered entirely by natural, renewable, ocean thermal energy.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 06, 2010 |
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