Sentences with phrase «for wave energy»

With «Thirty - seven percent of the world's population lives within 60 miles of a coastline» Wend feels that this provides «a strong local demand for wave energy.»

Portugal seems to be setting itself up as the European proving grounds for wave energy companies, with both Ocean Power Delivery, and now AquaEnergy, deploying their first commercial projects in Portugese waters.

They are collecting data from their numerical modeling and experimental research to benefit wave energy technology with improved methodologies, strategic control systems design and testing practices for wave energy converters.

Congress has also been boosting its policy support for wave energy, including bills from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R - Alaska) and Rep. Jay Inslee (D - Wash.)

Not exact matches

And whereas Canada's federal government provides little support for alternative energy projects, U.S. President Barack Obama still wants to catch the green - energy wave.

Stonehenge Metals has entered into an agreement with Yanchep Beach joint venture for collaboration on the development of a wave farm off the state's coast to potentially supply energy to the Two Rocks community.

Stonehenge Metals has entered into an agreement to acquire a Protean Energy subsidiary for a cash and share package worth about $ 1.34 million, to gain access to Protean's wave energy converter technEnergy subsidiary for a cash and share package worth about $ 1.34 million, to gain access to Protean's wave energy converter technenergy converter technology.

What you might have missed: Tesla made waves last month when it announced a new product line: battery products for homes and businesses for storing solar energy.

More than 1,000 fast - food workers gathered outside Chicago for a two - day convention which aimed to celebrate recent successes in the campaign for better workers» rights and drum up energy and ideas for a new wave of demonstrations.

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Wave summary: We can see an upward staircase, but this might be because this cross is accumulating energy for the extended red wave iii higher towards 176.41 and higher towards 1.8020.

Wello is a Finnish clean energy company providing a wave energy based solution for power generation.

«Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.»

The thing about surfing is that you don't really feel like you're exercising, but it burns through so much energy... especially if you spend more time paddling for waves than actually catching them.

Blogads are usually quite inexpensive for the number of people they allow you to reach (though prices on popular blogs have gone up significantly in the past few years), and they're putting you before a targeted audience: activists on a red - meat wave - the - bloody - flag political blog, pacifists on a peace - oriented site, enviros on a green energy blog, and so on.

Apart from the nuclear issue, the exploitation of Scotland's fossil - fuel resources is a major industrial activity, and even more a source of tax revenue, while there is outstanding potential for renewable energy generation, especially wind, wave and tidal.

Trade and industry minister Lord Truscott makes the case for nuclear power as just one part of an overall strategy, which includes greater energy efficiency and more use of renewables such as wind, wave and solar power.

Answers received by Ms Swinson also show the # 2 million budget for monitoring the environmental impact of wave and tidal energy has gone unspent, as has four fifths of the available budget for infrastructure support

As many local activists waved signs protesting the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, she denounced her Republican opponent, former state legislator John Faso of Kinderhook, as a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterways.

Are there lessons to be learned for Gov. Cuomo's new wave of energy innovation?

I also represent the Peninsular Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) based at the Tremough campus near Falmouth at which academics from Exeter University are doing a lot of important research and testing crucial to the wave power industry.

By studying gravitational waves, they can now explore extreme conditions in which the energy in an object's gravitational field accounts for most or all of its mass — the realm of strong gravity so far explored by theorists alone.

In fact, just before posting this Top Pictures list, a NASA press release came out saying the Fermi satellite has seen gamma rays from this object, which is another very strong piece of evidence for this; gamma rays are the very highest energy form of light, and should be made when subatomic particles bounce around in supernova shock waves.

The existing theory of light as waves failed to explain the effect, but Einstein provided a neat solution by suggesting light came in discrete packages of energy called photons — a brain wave that won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.

In principle, the wave function, denoted by Greek letter psi, can be used to reveal these energy levels for any given atom or molecule, although in practice this has only been done for the very simplest — the hydrogen atom and molecule (made of two hydrogen atoms bonded together).

Alas, using radio waves to tap hydrogen and oxygen as a combustible source of energy is inefficient, and scientists have so far been unable to adapt the process for energy production.

On January 12, scientists began a gradual shutdown of the Advanced LIGO experiment, marking the end of a four - month search for gravitational waves, ripples of energy that course through the cosmic fabric of space and time.

Astronomers can watch neutron stars orbit each other for many years using more traditional observatories, and all the while, energy leaks away from the system in the form of invisible gravitational waves.

Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse won the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics for showing such binary neutron stars radiate gravitational energy — an indirect proof of gravitational waves.

The detection of gravitational waves emanating from two colliding neutron stars has implications for the mysterious dark energy that makes up about 70 percent of the universe, Emily Conover reported in «This year's neutron star collision unlocks cosmic mysteries» (SN: 12/23/17 & 1/6/18, p. 19).

This was towed up to the Orkney Islands north of Scotland, which are home to the European Marine Energy Centre, a government - funded test center for wave machines.

For example, D - wave has arranged the qubits so that when they reach their lowest - energy state, they reveal the lowest - energy arrangement for folding a simple protein — thought to be its preferred staFor example, D - wave has arranged the qubits so that when they reach their lowest - energy state, they reveal the lowest - energy arrangement for folding a simple protein — thought to be its preferred stafor folding a simple protein — thought to be its preferred state.

Inventors have been filing for wave - energy patents for two centuries.

Despite the problem of intermittency, wave energy has an advantage over wind energy, for example: it is easier to predict optimum swell than some suitable gusts of wind.

An explosion of designs for harvesting wave energy could make the process competitive at last — and they're heading out to the ocean for testing

Pioneering research could provide a significant boost in the vital quest to harness wave power as a viable renewable energy source for the future.

The EOLO group (UPV / EHU) has developed various models for predicting the amount of wave energy for the Bay of Biscay, by using a technique called random forests.

Sandia's wave energy converter is a large 1 - ton ocean buoy with motors, sensors and an onboard computer built at a scaled down size for a testing environment.

Arecibo's recent work includes searching for gravitational waves by the effect they have on the clocklike regularity of dead stars called pulsars; watching for mysterious blasts of energy called fast radio bursts (SN Online: 12/21/16); and keeping tabs on near - Earth asteroids.

However, the actual mechanism for the energy transfer was far from clear, and the idea that neutrinos gave the shock wave a second wind remained controversial.

The initial warning relied on preliminary seismic data that registered the earthquake as only magnitude 7.9, but it can take tens of minutes after the initial detection for long - period seismic waves to provide a fuller picture of the earthquake's energy.

Both got their sea legs in Scotland's rough, cold waters, and both have a healthy respect for the energy that waves carry.

The researchers also noted a statistically significant relationship between times of low eddy kinetic energy and extremely high temperature anomalies — for example, the sweltering Russian heat wave of 2010.

That high energy density makes OTEC a more attractive option than wave or tidal power, Cable says, especially for distant outposts like those on Guam, where a cost analysis suggests that OTEC could provide electricity slightly more cheaply than existing oil - fired plants.

Efficiently absorbing energy from electromagnetic waves is an important property for many applications.

A new agency is funding crosscutting research, for example in materials and control systems, that could help a range of wave energy devices.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials, Energy Department counterparts, utility executives and research leaders are scheduled to meet in February for a «tabletop» conference on the technical and regulatory issues that could confront a new wave of relicensing applications by reactor owners.

Most other technology developed for harvesting wave power — including Finavera Renewables's AquaBuOY, WaveBob Ltd.'s wave - absorbing buoy and another buoy - mounted generator made by SRI International — absorbs energy from riding the waves as they bob up and down.

There may not yet be a market for underwater turbines or wave - riding electrical generators designed to use ocean turbulence as a source of renewable energy, but that has not stopped a handful of entrepreneurs from trying to create one.

With wave energy for motion and solar panels charging batteries to power its sensors, the board can operate for months without maintenance.