Harvard to develop hydrokinetic energy
Hydrovolts founder Burt Hamner ’83, announced today that a team from Hydrovolts and students from the Harvard College Engineering Society (HCES) will collaborate to...
How to generate electricity from fresh water and salty ocean water
Stanford researchers have developed a battery that takes advantage of the difference in salinity between freshwater and seawater to produce electricity.
Anywhere freshwater enters the...
The world’s largest test site for marine energy
The South West RDA’s (Regional Development Agency) pioneering Wave Hub marine energy project has been safely installed on the seabed following a delicate operation...
Wave energy testing in Oregon
A site has been selected near Newport, Ore., for a new wave energy test program, the first of its kind in the United States...
India has more than 7,000 MW of Tidal Power Potential
A recent study performed by the Indian government shows the country has an estimated 8,000 megawatts of tidal energy potential.
According to the assessment, the...
The Advantages of Harvesting Wave Power
Nothing can stop ocean flows as they are huge masses of water with lots of energy behind them. As long as the moon exists, and...
The UK’s first Marine Energy Park
Energy from the waves or tides has the potential to generate up to 27GW of power in the UK alone by 2050, equivalent to...
UK investments to exploit wave and tidal stream energy
Three major research and development projects that will help to develop the wave and tidal stream energy technologies of the future are set to...
Tides and Ocean Power Starting to Promise
More than 45 wave and tidal prototypes expected to be ocean tested in 2010 and 2011 according to the new research form IHS Emerging...