Tidal power, or, to put it another way, the power of the moon, is certainly a powerful energy source. The tidal fluctuations caused by the movement of the massive body of the moon is worth tapping, right? Many have of course tried — and are currently trying — but the effective … [continued]
Back in 2012 the Navy announced big plans for expanding its wave energy test site in Hawaii, to accommodate more ambitious technology. It looks like all systems are go now, and the Energy Department has just announced a new $10 million funding opportunity for testing two deep-water wave energy conversion … [continued]
The editor of a quarterly Buddhist magazine reached out to me a while back to see if I’d be interested in providing an article for an issue focused on renewable energy. Of course, I said yes. The article was published in the most recent print issue of the magazine, and … [continued]
Originally published on Shrink That Footprint. By Lindsay Wilson The new French Prime Minister Manuel Valls recently reiterated President Hollande’s plan to cut French dependence on atomic power to half of all output by 2025, down from almost 75% currently. The plan is to curtail nuclear and ramp up renewables. In his speech he … [continued]
With about 37,007 megawatts (MW) of solar PV power installed in 2013, world solar PV power capacity increased about 35% to 136,697 MW. Whereas Europe had dominated annual growth for years up until 2013 (10 years, to be precise), solar PV growth was much more evenly split last year, and … [continued]
The EU’s MAGNETIDE project continues to move forward — 14 months into the projected 24-month development program, the gains are becoming apparent. The project — which is intended to result in the development of a purpose-designed generator for wave energy extraction — has managed to reduce the cost of the … [continued]
Can We Harness Ocean Waves to Power Your Home? from Experiment on Vimeo. Wind energy experts have harnessed the movement of air to produce cheap electricity. The movement of water, waves, is another source of energy being explored and utilized. To use wave energy to create electricity, one realizes the … [continued]
Wave power has been grabbing the spotlight lately, but the US also has vast tidal power potential and the race is on to engineer a tidal energy device that can overcome some serious obstacles, namely interference with shipping, aquatic life, and recreation. It looks like a research team at Brown … [continued]
You might get one or two, but unless you’ve already read this story elsewhere, I’d bet plenty of cash that you can’t guess all three EU countries that have already hit their 2020 renewable energy targets. Countries that have yet to hit their targets include Germany, the UK (it’s far … [continued]
The US Department of Energy has just announced a new $6.5 million competition to promote low cost wave power, and it has recruited the Navy’s newly renovated indoor test pool as the proving grounds. At a whopping $24 million and six years in the making, the upgraded pool is almost … [continued]
