Sentences with phrase «tidal power»

This is to correct for the slowing down of the earth's rotation due to the extraordinary use of tidal power for electricity generation in the early twenty first century.

They are also investing in tidal power generation to help achieve that goal.

This will be the world's largest tidal power station - which resembles a wind farm, only underwater!

Some analysts have gone as far as to suggest that wave and tidal power industries together might employ 10,000 people by as early as 2020.

That being said, the many advantages of tidal power as an energy generation and energy storage option mean that it probably has an important role to play in building a sustainable global society.

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

If wars can be fought for oil, wars can be fought for territories that provide better conditions for wind, solar, biomass, or tidal power generation.

«China Endorses 300 MW Ocean Energy Project,» Renewable Energy Access, 2 November 2004; «Company Plans 200 - Megawatt Tidal Power Plant in New Zealand,» Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy News, 29 November 2006; Sang - Hun, «As Tides Ebb and Rise,» op.

Atlantis develops, finances and builds large - scale tidal power projects.

Most of the permits Oceana seeks are for sites identified as ideal for tidal power in reports funded by the utility industry's research organization, EPRI.

The system was the first commercial, grid - connected tidal power system in the United States, and ORPC expects to expand in the coming years to provide electricity to roughly 2000 homes and businesses.

China has been actively in harnessing tidal power for 40 years, and now has 6 MW of capacity installed.

Four licences have been issued by the crown estate to different companies to develop tidal power in the Pentland firth.

«Company Plans 200 - Megawatt Tidal Power Plant in New Zealand,» op.

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.

According to a WWF report, the country has 25 per cent of EU's offshore wind and tidal power potential.

Lunar Energy, a U.K. tidal power company, in March began working with Korean Midland Power Company to create a giant 300 - turbine field in the Wando Hoenggan Waterway off the South Korean coast.

Finally, we learn that PG&E; has its eyes set on San Francisco bay for some sort of tidal power development.

Tidal power technology is in its infancy, and as such its current deployment is very limited.

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.

The Guardian, recently ran a story in the normally breathless fashion about how tidal power over 1,000 kms of the UK coastline could supply 11 % of the UK's electricity consumption.

Hans van Haren makes the case against using tidal power because, as well as ecological damage, there is not much...

New York City's East River may become the site of the nation's first full - scale tidal power plant - a potentially big step for other coastal cities looking for locally - generated renewable energy that's fish - friendly, too.

Burges Salmon has helped secure consent for the largest tidal power generation project to have gained approval in Europe.

China also has experimented with tidal power near Shanghai.

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.

For example, SEV is seeking corporate partners for a new tidal power project.

This gap is a result of the government's opposition to expanding onshore wind and solar, its strictly limited support for offshore wind and the lack of clear signals on tidal power or biomass, combined with ongoing delays for new nuclear.

Investors recently got their feet with OreCon's wave energy but now they need to dive deeper and check out what tidal power startups are doing.

Unsurprisingly, The Orkneys — a remote cluster of islands off the north coast of Scotland — have become known for wave and tidal power experiments.

And while solar power, wind power and tidal power grab daily headlines worldwide, anaerobic waste water digestion technologies are quietly but effectively responding to the need for industry to break free now from the cost and pollution of fossil fuels — and the financial penalties such as carbon taxes they face Down Under.

Tidal power fell out of favour for good reason.

Utilities interested in tapping into tidal power will have to spend money to create the energy - delivery infrastructure, or at least convince government to pay for it.

Tidal power remains a nascent technology, still very much being developed.

Unlike existing tidal power stations, it does not need costly and environmentally damaging coastal barrages.

What Hellman is saying is that the the real profit centers for Seattle lie in scale - enabling systems, the formidable tidal powers such as Amazon Web Services, which ebb and flow according to supply and demand.

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.

Maybe tidal power will come down in cost as the technology improves, and maybe at some later date it will make sense to harness the San Francisco bay currents, but right now unless someone can show that the URS study is flawed, it doesn't seem to make sense.

More on Marine Power: 1.2 Megawatts: World's Largest Tidal Turbine to be Installed Canadian 200 MW Commercial Tidal Power Project Announced 1 Gigawatt of Marine Power to be Developed by Aquamarine Power in UK & Ireland

Looking at the way sea plants move in currents and the efficient movements of fish like sharks and tuna, BioPower used evolution as its role model for designing turbines for effective tidal power generation.

It will be hooked up to Atlantis» planned tidal power arrays in the Pentland Firth of Scotland.

Wave power, though it is a few years behind tidal power, is now attracting the attention of both engineers and investors.

But we recently met a startup called Hydrovolts (formerly Puget Sound Tidal Power, or PSTP) which is taking the tidal turbine technology down a notch to generate electricity from the currents found in rivers, and canals.

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.