Sentences with phrase «ocean wind power»

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Meanwhile Shell is leveraging its experience building giant things in the ocean to develop offshore wind farms, widely seen as wind power's next big thing.

It's signature product is the Submaran ™, the first hybrid wind and solar - powered surface and subsurface vessel designed for extended ocean observation and data collection.

Lockheed Martin Ventures last month invested an undisclosed amount in San Diego - based Ocean Aero — a 25 - employee start - up that is developing the Submaran, a solar - and wind - powered ocean drone capable of operating above and below the surOcean Aero — a 25 - employee start - up that is developing the Submaran, a solar - and wind - powered ocean drone capable of operating above and below the surocean drone capable of operating above and below the surface.

Lockheed Martin Ventures in September month invested an undisclosed amount in San Diego - based Ocean Aero, a 25 - employee startup that is developing the Submaran — a solar and wind powered ocean drone capable of operating above and below the surOcean Aero, a 25 - employee startup that is developing the Submaran — a solar and wind powered ocean drone capable of operating above and below the surocean drone capable of operating above and below the surface.

It provides warmth, energy, and powers the winds and oceans keeping everything moving on our planet.

Before, we did work with muscle power, animal power (horses, mules, donkeys, oxen, camels), wind power on the oceans and in gristmills, a little hydropower, and open fire.

Within the next decade, hundreds or even thousands of solar - and wind - powered drones could roam the world's oceans, using satellites to relay information gathered from the sea surface and the air above.

Harnessing ocean power is a long way behind wind, solar and geothermal, however.

The basic scenario goes as follows: Hurricanes — circular storms spinning around a region of low atmospheric pressure — are powered by energy released by spiraling surface winds that draw heat from the ocean.

Shifts in trade winds and ocean currents powered a resurgence of endangered Galápagos penguins over the past 30 years, according to a new study.

The whole Earth contains engines that dissipate their power — winds, ocean currents, animals, and human and machine species.

This the first scientific test for the drones, which are powered only by the wind and sun, in the Pacific Ocean.

The surfboard - size, wave - powered Papa Mau traveled 16,668 kilometers from San Francisco to Australia's Hervey Bay, tracking information about ocean currents, wind speed and organisms critical to ocean life.

When you're driving such a car, you can find yourself strangely becalmed in the nether regions of the engine's power curve, as if you were in the horse latitudes, those regions in the ocean where the trade winds don't blow.

But energy stocks also include green energy: power from renewable resources like solar power, wind power, geothermal power, generating electricity from ocean waves, plus nuclear power.

Semi-remote ocean front lodge and cottages powered with wind, solar and generator.

In this way, it continues the investigations he began with Automatic, a project in which he used wind and ocean currents to power a series of drawing machines.

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

Other fossil - fuel replacements occasionally touted in print or on the Web include nuclear fission, subcritical thorium fission, high - altitude wind power, enhanced geothermal, hot dry (or hot fractured) rock geothermal, wave power, tidal power, open - cycle ocean thermal energy conversion, and advanced biorefinery products like 2,5 - dimethylfuran, various other furans and furfurals.

Our owners are deeply experienced in the energy sector and understand the nature of the industry and the crucial need for ramp - up time to create profitable, utility - scale, ocean - based wind power.

Proven technology already used around the globe can harness the strong and steady ocean winds off the shores of the United States, transform them into clean, cost - effective electricity, and transmit that power to where it is needed most.

This is because, in this region, wind power depends on the temperature difference between the land and the sea, and previous research has shown that warming occurs faster on land than above oceans.

Ships that are solar and wind powered could change all that, but at the moment there is no political will to even want to investigate the possibilities with studies, and / or test projects aimed at the eventual phase in of truly clean ocean transport.

Tidal - power partisans praise its reliability and easiness on the eyeâ $» in contrast with the giant wind turbines near some New England tourist havensâ $» and note that over half of Americaâ $ ™ s electricity is used in states that border on the ocean.

ENSO is a periodic oscillation of ocean water in the equatorial Pacific powered by the trade winds.

Ocean Champions Endorses Congressman Jerry McNerney (D - CA) Former Wind Power Engineer Sees California Leading Clean Energy Future Washington, D.C. — June 24, 2013 — Ocean Champions, which works to build political power for the oceans by helping to elect pro-ocean candidates to the U.S. CongresPower Engineer Sees California Leading Clean Energy Future Washington, D.C. — June 24, 2013 — Ocean Champions, which works to build political power for the oceans by helping to elect pro-ocean candidates to the U.S. Congrespower for the oceans by helping to elect pro-ocean candidates to the U.S. Congress,...

Indeed, as I argue in this article, I think it will be absolutely essential that we shift much of our current wasteful fossil fuel use (e.g., shipping the same goods back and forth across the ocean, driving gas - powered private automobiles, and producing disposable consumer goods) toward building new infrastructure for long - term resilience (e.g., local food economies, low - energy housing, greenspace, water catchment and storage, clean energy systems, trains, and, yes, wind - powered sea vessels!).

«Even in the ocean area, where respondents live, on average, about a half - mile from the coast, support for wind power outnumbers opposition by more than 3 to 1 in Delaware,» Firestone noted.

Carbon emissions from fossil fuel fired power stations are one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification and these are far greater threats to the Australian environment than are wind farms.

Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Biofuels (2nd, 3rd generation), Geothermal Energy, Fusion Energy (not fission), Ocean and Wave Energy, Nuclear Fission Energy, Phasing Out Fossil Fuels, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, Waste Management and Energy, GRIDS - Electricity Power Transmission

When natural carbon is brought up to the surface by the winds, it is harder for the Southern Ocean to accommodate more human - generated carbon, which comes from factories, coal - fired power plants and petroleum - powered vehicle exhaust.

EREC is the umbrella organisation of the European renewable energy industry, trade and research associations active in the sectors of photovoltaics, small hydropower, solar thermal, bioenergy, geothermal, ocean, concentrated solar power and wind energy, The European renewable energy sector has an annual turnover of EUR 70 billion and employs 550.000 people.

Proven technology already used around the globe can harness the strong and steady ocean winds off our shores and transform them into clean, cost - effective electricity and transmit that power to where it is needed most.

Among renewable energy technologies, the shares in global funding of biomass, solar photovoltaic and wind have increased, while those of ocean, geothermal and concentrating solar power have declined — broadly reflecting the evolving consensus as to where the greatest potential lies.

Orsted's Ocean Wind project, planned for about 10 miles off Atlantic City, could generate up to 3,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1.5 million homes, said company President Thomas Brostrom.

Several factors play a role when a hurricane gains more power rapidly, including the temperature of the surface of the ocean, humidity, characteristics of the clouds, the heat content in the ocean, and the direction of the wind at the surface compared to miles above.

Excluding nuclear from the discussion, wind, solar and ocean current power production are nice ideas but far from capable of meeting today's demands; much less tomorrow's.

Renewable energy (which includes solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, ocean currents, biomass, biofuel) can produce electricity more than enough to power our current and future lifestyle, without polluting the planet and causing global warming.

«As a wind power engineer and a published author, he literally wrote the book on the need to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, and he knows that this is the best way to stop our oceans from acidifying.»

QUOTE:» There were over 3 million pCO2 measurements of ocean waters in the past decades which confirm Henry's law...» ANSWER: You seem to refer to Takahashi's data; as the exchange of CO2 between air and water is strongly dependent upon the speed of the wind (as the third power of the wind according to Wanninkof & McGillis 1999) it's not Henry law!

In my experience vocal opposition to wind power almost always is accompanied by denial of climate change and ocean acidification.

The Senator does not mention what we should do to combat climate change and ocean acidification if we were to drop wind power, nor does he mention that wind power in Australia has been very effective in reducing carbon dioxide emissions intensity (see the graph on the right above).

In recent years, there has been great interest in the development of renewable, non-polluting ocean energy which refers to sustainable means of generating electrical power that do not involve burning fossil fuels sources including wind, waves, tides and ocean currents.

If we increase the amount of wind power we will slow down the climate change and ocean acidification that otherwise will greatly damage the world that our children and grandchildren inherit.

Possner and Caldeira's sophisticated modeling tools compared the productivity of large Kansas wind farms to massive, theoretical open - ocean wind farms and found that in some areas ocean - based wind farms could generate at least three times more power than the ones on land.

Wind power production in the deep waters of the open ocean is in its infancy of commercialization.

With all of the attention being paid to where the United States» first offshore wind farm will be located — there are existing proposals at various stages for ocean - based offshore wind farms in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York and Texas — New York Power Authority (NYPA) yesterday announced a major public - private initiative for the potential development of wind power projects in the state of New York's fresh waters of Lake Erie and Lake OntPower Authority (NYPA) yesterday announced a major public - private initiative for the potential development of wind power projects in the state of New York's fresh waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontpower projects in the state of New York's fresh waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

Days later Siemens AG (SIE) announced it's selling Marine Current Turbines Ltd... Already the top 20 wave and tidal - stream businesses have amassed losses of $ 903 million over their lifetimes, according to BNEF data... «This is the capitalist survival - of - the - fittest process working as normal in any new market area,» McCrone said by e-mail... As other renewables such as solar and wind have reduced cost to become commercially viable, waves and tides remain the most expensive sources of power, costing four times more than coal, BNEF estimates... Oceanlinx Ltd. and Wavebob Ltd. both failed in the past 18 months, and Ocean Power Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a project inAustrpower, costing four times more than coal, BNEF estimates... Oceanlinx Ltd. and Wavebob Ltd. both failed in the past 18 months, and Ocean Power Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a project inAustrPower Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a project inAustralia.

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