Sentences with phrase «including ocean energy»

«Like Ocean Champions, I am committed to a more sustainable and secure Hawaii future that supports our local fishing industry and wisely invests in home - grown energy sources including ocean energy, biofuels and wind.

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The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

The ocean technology sector in Atlantic Canada has evolved in parallel with activities in related industries, including defence and security, energy, marine transportation, ocean science and observation, and food and tourism.

Furthermore, some animals, including lemurs, can enter into hibernation or another energy - conserving state known as torpor, which could have aided survival on the open ocean.

An important remit of UNESCO's natural sciences programme is promoting environmental sustainability, including nature conservation, ocean monitoring, renewable energy, and water resources.

Including its plans to help Verdant, the Energy Department in September said it would dole out up to $ 7.3 million over the next five years to advance commercial viability, cost - competitiveness and market acceptance of new technologies that can harness renewable energy from oceans and rEnergy Department in September said it would dole out up to $ 7.3 million over the next five years to advance commercial viability, cost - competitiveness and market acceptance of new technologies that can harness renewable energy from oceans and renergy from oceans and rivers.

In a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motion.

V: A lot of biology that was not known before, including the biology of the upper oceans, seems to be driven by capturing energy directly from the sun.

These include the steady flow of energy from the sun, the rotation of the Earth and the release of water vapor from the oceans.

Federal agencies actively involved in these discussions include the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Bureau of Ocean Energy, National Park Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of the Navy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification, which was formed by the FOARAM Act of 2009, includes representatives from NOAA, NSF, NASA, BIA, BOEM, EPA, NPS, Navy, Smithsonian, State, USDA, USFWS, USGS, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy.

The transfer of heat energy between the atmosphere and the ocean isn't well understood, including the roles of wind, currents and ocean conditions.

Some natural ways to do so include taking a swim in the ocean or dipping into an Epsom salt bath — saltwater tends to help balance out energy fields.

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.

Proposed explanations for the discrepancy include ocean — atmosphere coupling that is too weak in models, insufficient energy cascades from smaller to larger spatial and temporal scales, or that global climate models do not consider slow climate feedbacks related to the carbon cycle or interactions between ice sheets and climate.

The changes include changes in the TOA energy dynamic related to changes in ocean and atmospheric circulation — changes in cloud.

July 31, 2011, 11:35 a.m. Updated There's been a rush to all manner of judgments over the strange case of Charles Monnett, the biologist for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement who provided a powerful talking point for climate campaigners, including former Vice President Al Gore, with his description of several drowned polar bears spotted during an aerial marine - mammals survey in 2004 — an observation enshrined in a short paper published in Polar Biology in 2006.

The Dialogues first mobilized thousands of experts and specialists in online conversations, covering ten themes including oceans, energy, cities, food security and inequality.

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.

With ocean heat content, including the IPWP, running at record high levels (literally off the chart), how much energy is released in this El Niño and how quickly it fills back in is of keen interest to me.

Thus, some heat gets converted to kinetic energy, but that gets converted back to heat, either by viscosity or by thermally - indirect circulations that produce APE while pulling heat downward in the process (LHSO: Ferrel cell (driven by extratropical storm track activity), Planetary - scale overturning in the stratosphere and mesosphere (includes Brewer - Dobson circulation (I'm not sure if the whole thing is the Brewer - Dobson circulation or if only part of it is)-RRB-, some motions in the ocean; LVO: wind driven mixing of the boundary layer and of the upper ocean (though mixing itself tends to destroy the APE that the kinetic energy would create by forcing heat downward)-RRB-.

In equilibrium, all fluxes into the surface will be balanced by fluxes out of the surface (including momentum, etc, as well as energy), so whatever lies beneath the surface gives the surface an effective heat capacity and also (in the oceans) some ability for local / regional imbalances to be balanced globally, with all of that responding to forcings and PR+CR and other feedbacks at the surface.

Realization that we must reduce the current CO2 amount has a bright side: effects that had begun to seem inevitable, including impacts of ocean acidification, loss of fresh water supplies, and shifting of climatic zones, may be averted by the necessity of finding an energy course beyond fossil fuels sooner than would otherwise have occurred.

Globally, the Ozzies have pointed out that the oceans have been busy absorbing almost all of the heat energy (90 %) The atmosphere and the land, including ice, store the other 10 %.

It includes thousands of inputs from cosmic radiation from deep space, heating energy from the bottom of the oceans and everything in between.

Everything else that might try to alter that base level simply results in atmospheric circulation changes (atmosphere includes oceans for this purpose) that adjust the rate of conversion between kinetic and potential energy so as to keep the base level of system energy content stable.

If as I suggest one includes the much denser oceans as a component of atmosphere then increases in CO2 become irredeemably trivial in terms of their power to alter overall density and the speed of energy throughput and thus the global heat retaining process.

Several recent studies have also concluded that it is necessary to include data from the deep ocean in order to reconcile global heat content and the TOA energy imbalance, which DK12 failed to do.

Recommendation: To better ensure that the government obtains sufficient financial assurances to cover decommissioning liabilities in the event of lessee default, the Secretary of the Interior should ensure that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) completes its plan to revise its financial assurance procedures, including the use of alternative measures of financial strength.

The decadal mean planetary energy imbalance, 0.75 W / m2, includes heat storage in the deeper ocean and energy used to melt ice and warm the air and land.

I have devoted 30 years to conducting research on topics including climate feedback processes in the Arctic, energy exchange between the ocean and atmosphere, the role of clouds and aerosols in the climate system, and the impact of climate change on the characteristics of tropical cyclones.

Between 2012 and 2016, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) supported 254 renewable energy projects across a range of technologies including new storage technology, ocean energy, solar thermal, and solar PV or enabling technolEnergy Agency (ARENA) supported 254 renewable energy projects across a range of technologies including new storage technology, ocean energy, solar thermal, and solar PV or enabling technolenergy projects across a range of technologies including new storage technology, ocean energy, solar thermal, and solar PV or enabling technolenergy, solar thermal, and solar PV or enabling technologies.

However the temperature of the air around the Earth is set by the combination of both the power of the solar energy reaching the Earth (the electricity supply) and the greenhouse effect (or rather the resistor effect) of the entire atmosphere and at this point readers need to recall my earlier contention that for greenhouse (resistor) purposes the oceans must be included as part of the «atmosphere».

The many benefits of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) include: small seasonal and daily variations in availability, benign environmental performance and by - products in a family of deep ocean water applications, for example food (aquaculture and agriculture) and potable water, and improving economics as a result of higher oil prices.

Natural variations in climate include the effects of cycles such as El Niño, La Niña and other ocean cycles; the 11 - year sunspot cycle and other changes in energy from the sun; and the effects of volcanic eruptions.

This time period is too short to signify a change in the warming trend, as climate trends are measured over periods of decades, not years.12, 29,30,31,32 Such decade - long slowdowns or even reversals in trend have occurred before in the global instrumental record (for example, 1900 - 1910 and 1940 - 1950; see Figure 2.2), including three decade - long periods since 1970, each followed by a sharp temperature rise.33 Nonetheless, satellite and ocean observations indicate that the Earth - atmosphere climate system has continued to gain heat energy.34

I should stop because this is going off - topic but if the total energy accumulation of the planetary surface (aka «global warming» which of course includes the oceans) is not continuous then... what?

While the opening of a year - round ice free Arctic passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans would confer some commercial benefits, including improved access to energy and mineral resources, these must be balanced against the negatives.

-- The term «renewable energy» means energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric project.

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.

Sectors assessed for specific effects included freshwater resources, terrestrial and ocean ecosystems, coasts, food, urban and rural areas, energy and industry, human health and security, and livelihoods and poverty.

We bring this up because some are suggesting that the 2017 - 2022 leasing program the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is building shouldn't include the Arctic because of recent pauses on development in the area.

AquaEnergy's CEO, Alla Weinstein, spoke at the recent Ocean Renewable Energy Conference in Newport on AquaEnergy's efforts, including the Makah Bay and Portugal projects.

The marine energy programme will be expanded in 2013 to include tidal and wave energy, along with OTEC ocean thermal gradient technologies.

«We'll prudently maintain our offshore wind assets — which includes working with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on a lease for the Delaware project — and continue to seek a buyer or major investor for that project.»

Surfrider also recognizes that there are many questions and concerns about ocean energy, including potential impacts to ocean recreation, nearshore ecology, coastal processes, public safety, aesthetics, and fishing access.

The Federal Government, including the White House, the Department of Energy and the Department of Interior (admittedly taking the White House's lead) have repeatedly used the EIA's long term forecast as a basis for granting the oil industry access to drill in America's riskiest terrain, including the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

The White House's key energy policy document cites the EIA's oil demand forecast, and its outlook for steady oil demand decades into the future, as the basis for the latest round of lease sales in the Outer Continental Shelf, which includes areas in the Atlantic Ocean offered for the first time in decades together with new areas made available north of the Arctic Circle in the Chukchi Sea.

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.

It is an element of New York's ongoing offshore wind strategy, which also includes the New York State Offshore Wind Blueprint released in September, and the State's participation in the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) auction on December 15.