Sentences with phrase «on tidal power»

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What the Conservatives are doing so badly is by destroying solar power, destroying on - shore wind, not proceeding with tidal power, ending the carbon capture and storage programme, they are putting Britain's future energy security at risk.»

But a technological miracle will fill the gap until solar, wind and tidal power come fully on stream.

Artificial wetlands on lower decks would purify wastewater, and the whole city would be studded from top to bottom with solar cells and wind and tidal - power turbines.

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.

But according to its American developer, a new approach to tidal power should have a minimal environmental impact, as well as competing with other energy schemes on price.

The researchers focused on meeting each state's new power demands using only the renewable energies — wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and tiny amounts of tidal and wave — available to each state.

The V - 12 is a tidal wave of power and torque when you need to get on it, but totally unobtrusive and friendly for cruising.

Waterborne offers events and building options that focus more on the coastal areas of the island, as well as providing off - shore alternatives for energy with tidal power plants, military submarines for defense, even floating luxury apartments for housing.

offers events and building options that focus more on the coastal areas of the island, as well as providing off - shore alternatives for energy with tidal power plants, military submarines for defense, even floating luxury apartments for housing.

Cage's pianissimo is unlike the stentorian voice - over of many gallery films, and the selections (the enchantingly lyrical «Lecture on Nothing» and the 1966 version of «Radio Happening») are wonderfully congruent with the understated tidal power of the art in the show, particularly the sculpture.

Conductor John Myers — straight out of «downtown New York central casting, circa 1984,» according to one pal — summoned an at - times - unholy noise from the six hundred assembled strings, and the music's power conjured a litany of metaphors, all describing moments verging on abandon: His calisthenic conducting elicited a tidal surge of synchronized nodding heads; the performers then inspired him to feats of excitement that could compete with Christian - revival praise dancing; his attempts to rein in the players for quieter passages gave the impression of a lion tamer placating a feisty animal.

Geothermal, tidal, and especially nuclear power would all be fairly unlimited and not dependent on Mr. Sun.

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.

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If our «dependence» on Earth's resources are «unsustainable» because they are finite, then so too would our much more real dependence on solar, wind and tidal power, be ultimately unsustainable.

Living in Switzerland, we've got lots of experience of getting power out of rain (and snow) that falls on mountains on its way down to the flatlands, but tidal power is indeed «not too viable» here (as you point out).

To your list of power sources (and an article on the current state of fusion would be an interesting topic here) I would add Wave / tidal although adding the caveat that it is horses for courses as that is a solution not too viable for land locked countries.

Tidal power is also yet to be proven economically viable on a commercial scale other than in particularly well suited places; it is questionable whether there are such places in SA.

Cons: Tidal power relies on primitive technology and limited locations, can result in negative ecological consequences if dams are used, and is not yet economically competitive.

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.

When the project was proposed in 2006, a report by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) claimed the mouth of San Francisco Bay was one of the best locations on the West Coast for tidal pPower Research Institute (EPRI) claimed the mouth of San Francisco Bay was one of the best locations on the West Coast for tidal powerpower.

On a larger scale, M2E hopes to use kinetic energy to enhance wind, hydropower, and tidal power efficiency.

Combine it with waves and the window for power generation becomes greater especially if you have such resources on opposite sides of the country to catch the tidal difference between the east and west coast.

My columns have covered LEDs, solar power, wind power, demand - response, green chemistry, smart grid innovation, water technologies, geothermal, biofuels (with a big focus on algae), electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, wave and tidal power, biogas, waste reduction, energy storage, advanced materials... you name it.

An economy running on ubiquitous resources would use solar power, wind power, tidal power, carbon fibre construction and epoxies.

Different renewable energy sources may be compensated at different rates, depending on how expensive they are to deploy — with technologies like solar and wind typically being compensated at a lower rate than less developed technologies like tidal power.

However you look at it, 1000kms of tidal power is bringing a level of industrialization on large scale to an environment that was not previously so afflicted.

Maybe it will be stepping on the neck of the tidal power industry, or whatever else is coming next.

Though thanks to a recent tidal turbine retrofit, worrying about the robustness of your turbines is lower down on the list: Tidal Turbines Will Power 10,000 Homes, Eventually The re-installation of the new aluminum alloy turbine blades took less than a day's time and is part of Phase 2 of the three phase RITE project, which is testing the viability of tidal power in New York tidal turbine retrofit, worrying about the robustness of your turbines is lower down on the list: Tidal Turbines Will Power 10,000 Homes, Eventually The re-installation of the new aluminum alloy turbine blades took less than a day's time and is part of Phase 2 of the three phase RITE project, which is testing the viability of tidal power in New York Tidal Turbines Will Power 10,000 Homes, Eventually The re-installation of the new aluminum alloy turbine blades took less than a day's time and is part of Phase 2 of the three phase RITE project, which is testing the viability of tidal power in New York Power 10,000 Homes, Eventually The re-installation of the new aluminum alloy turbine blades took less than a day's time and is part of Phase 2 of the three phase RITE project, which is testing the viability of tidal power in New York tidal power in New York power in New York City.

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We've reported a couple of times on the progress of SeaGen tidal power turbine project in Northern Ireland, most recently on the project's installation.

There are three sources of power on this planet; nuclear, tidal, and solar.

While there are a range of renewable sources that can provide on site power directly for industrial activities, in many cases it will be more convenient and possibly more efficient to take power from large renewables projects linked up via the grid - e.g. large offshore wind farms, wave farms, tidal farms, or desert solar projects.

Siphon from gulf of California to Death Valley... Put power generation on it and ride the tidal flow.

But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil fuel generators had all closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7 power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission plants.

Ross has led teams advising on all types of renewable energy technology including solar, wind (on and offshore), biomass, biofuels, anaerobic digestion, waste to energy, wave and tidal energy, geothermal and hydro as well as conventional power.

We work with clients on developing clean and renewable energy facilities, energy efficiency and microgrids, as well conventional and nuclear power plants and a range of other infrastructure including wind, solar, biomass, fuel cells, tidal, geothermal and biofuels projects.