As you look out of the harbor, you see a series of small rocky outcrops breaking through the swells. These artificial islands are popular nesting areas for a wide variety of birds due to the islands’ elevation, which was designed to consider the effects of potential boat wakes, natural wave … [continued]
It’s possible to design machines that are anchored to the deep ocean bottom that will “fly” in the current, like kites in the wind. In the future, large-scale commercial-scale deployments composed of many turbines to generate power-plant quantities of ocean electricity could become common.
We covered the announcement that Ghana would be home to Africa’s largest solar power plant late last year, and now, according to PV-Tech, construction of said-project is expected to begin in 2014. Writing in December of 2012, CleanTechnica site-director Zachary Shahan wrote that the “UK’s Blue Energy is the company behind this … [continued]
155 MW is big. That’s a huge power plant. And that’s the size of the power plant planned for construction in Ghana. It will be the largest solar power plant in Africa when completed, which should be in October 2015. It will also be one of the largest in … [continued]
