By Alternative Energy News on June 20, 2010
The Irish are currently pursuing energy independence and the further development of their robust economy through the implementation of research and development into alternative energy sources. At the time of this writing, nearly 90% of Ireland’s energy needs are met through importation – the highest level of foreign product dependence in the nation’s entire history. [...]
Posted in Wave Power | Tagged alternative energy sources, energy independence, green energy, hydroelectric power, Ireland, ocean wave energy, Wave Power, wind farms
By Alternative Energy News on June 16, 2010
Anyone who has played in the ocean surf or experienced the current of a river, felt the tug of outgoing or incoming surf, recognizes that there is energy contained in moving bodies of water. Harnessing that energy to create electricity has been in third position, behind solar and wind, as a source of alternative energy.
But [...]
Posted in Wave Power | Tagged energy wave, ocean surf, water wave, wave energy, Wave Power
By Alternative Energy News on May 24, 2010
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire) – Seakinetics Corp www.seakinetics.org announced today that its agreement with Leviathon Energy Waves Ltd., an Israeli technology company, will provide a unique opportunity to exploit the use of a diverse range of cutting edge wind and wave energy turbine systems. This could significantly boost the yield curve on large scale investments the Company will [...]
Posted in Wave Power | Tagged energy waves, ocean power, renewable energy market, small wind turbine, turbine systems, Wave Power, wind turbines
By Alternative Energy News on April 29, 2010
In the past several years in Canada, the utilization of renewable energy has become a priority, especially in the forms of solar power and wind power. Another form of renewable energy in which Canada is beginning to see potential is that of wave and tidal power. Though much of the country’s focus has been on the [...]
Posted in Tidal Power | Tagged Canada, energy production, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power, tidal power plants, Wave Power, wind power
By John on December 20, 2009
Harnessing the power of water has been used for centuries for many useful purposes. Initially it was used for irrigation and operating various machines, such as windmills and dock cranes. But these days it has a more important use: as a renewable source of electricity.
So what is hydro power?
Well, basically it is the generation of [...]
Posted in Wave Power | Tagged Hydro, hydroelectric dams, hydroelectric power, Power, renewable energy, tidal energy, Tidal Power, Types, wave motion, Wave Power, windmills
By John on December 6, 2009
One of the Earth’s great renewable energy sources is actually the energy that can be found in all the waves of the ocean. Let’s look at this further.
If you have ever been to the ocean, you were probably fascinated by the phenomena of the waves crashing against the shorelines as the tides came in. The [...]
Posted in Tidal Power | Tagged Energy, high tides, Ocean, Power, Renewable, Tidal, tidal barrages, tidal energy, tidal fences, Tidal Power, tidal power plant, tidal turbines, tidal waves, Wave Power
By John on November 30, 2009
Experts have been attempting to harness the power of the wave since the late 19th century. As the wind passes over the ocean, it produces waves. There is a direct correlation between the power of the wind and the power of the wave.
Wave energy is produced when electricity generators are placed on the surface of [...]
Posted in Wave Power | Tagged alternative energy, Potential, Power, power generation, Tidal, turbines, Wave, wave energy, Wave Power
By Alternative Energy News on October 30, 2008
As the conventional sources of energy are dwindling, scientists are continuously looking for alternative sources of energy. We are frequently reading about generation of alternative and clean energy from unconventional sources. Portugal built Agucadoura, the world’s first wave farm off its coast. This wave farm has three Wave Energy Converters which are producing a total [...]
Posted in Wave Power | Tagged agucadoura, alternative energy resources, alternative sources of energy, Pelamis Wave Power, wave energy, wave motion, Wave Power
By John on September 12, 2008
Wave power is the term used to describe the harnessing of the energy contained in the ocean’s surface waves, and converting that energy into a useful form – usually electricity generation. Wave energy is essentially stored, concentrated wind energy, the waves being created by the progressive transfer of energy from the wind as it blows [...]
Posted in Wave Power | Tagged electricity generation, ocean currents, Pelamis, renewable energy source, Tidal Power, video, wave energy, Wave Power
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