The future of all ground transportation and an awful lot of aviation and marine shipping being electric, low-carbon, quieter, and a lot less smelly is within reach. It would be rude not to reach out and grab it with both hands.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve reached the end of my first set of scenarios for marine decarbonization through 2100. My bets are on batteries for all inland and two-thirds of short-sea shipping, and biofuels for the rest. It took me years to work through the aspects of synthetic … [continued]
Years of out-of-the-box thinking have yielded a broad range of design concepts for the marine energy industry.
Dale Vince, the founder and Managing Director of Ecotricity, gave this interview on 16th November 2017, and I am very pleased to present the third part of it here.
Thousands of terawatts of wave energy are tantalizingly close, and Wales aims to be among the first nations to harvest some of that blue gold.
Originally published on Ecopreneurist. Compared to some of the other renewable energy technologies, such as solar and wind, wave energy is still in its infancy (OK, maybe its early adolescence), and so far, wave energy advances haven’t yet come close to producing a cost-effective solution for electricity production. And yet … [continued]
Atlantis Resources Limited, owner of development rights to the Pentland Firth, has awarded Zurich-based ABB the contract to install tidal power conversion and grid connection systems for the four-turbine, 6-megawatt demonstration phase of the MeyGen tidal stream project. ABB is the world’s premier maker of power grids and a well-known multinational engineering company. … [continued]
Tidal stream and wave power technologies are taking longer than hoped to develop, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, who have recently revised down their estimates for their deployment by 11% and 72% respectively. By 2020, Bloomberg predict that tidal stream and wave power will grow to 148 MW and … [continued]
Scotland’s government has just announced the start of a new multi-million-pound fund that will target private renewable energy investments. Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister, speaking at the Scottish Low Carbon Investment conference, said the Renewable Energy Investment Fund (REIF) will be another channel for investors who are looking to use … [continued]
The New England Marine Renewable Energy Center (MREC) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has partnered with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to advance research and development activities in the field of renewable energy, mainly energy captured from waves, tides and offshore wind. According … [continued]
