Archive for the ‘Wave power’ Category

Solar Wind Desert Power Plant is a new design proposal of the artist and inventor Michael Jantzen.

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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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Energy from the waves or tides has the potential to generate up to 27GW of power in the UK alone by 2050, equivalent to the power generated from 8 coal-fired power stations, as well as helping to reduce emissions to fight climate change.

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Giant Pelamis system is a device developed by Scottish company Pelamis Wave Power, which uses wave power to generate electricity.

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A site has been selected near Newport, Ore., for a new wave energy test program, the first of its kind in the United States and the closest one this side of Scotland.

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Stanford researchers have developed a battery that takes advantage of the difference in salinity between freshwater and seawater to produce electricity.

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A recent study performed by the Indian government shows the country has an estimated 8,000 megawatts of tidal energy potential.

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Three major research and development projects that will help to develop the wave and tidal stream energy technologies of the future are set to benefit from government investment of over £2.5 million.

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Interest in developing alternative energy sources is driving the consideration of a promising technology that uses underwater turbines to convert ocean tidal flow energy into electricity.

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More than 45 wave and tidal prototypes expected to be ocean tested in 2010 and 2011 according to the new research form IHS Emerging Energy Research which said that only 12 projects were installed in 2009.

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