Sentences with phrase «tidal power in»

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 City.

We should also be preparing to take our energy from a decentralized system using whichever non-carbon energy technologies are best suited to their natural surroundings — solar in sunny areas, offshore wave and tidal power in coastal areas, wind farms in the world's wind corridors and geothermal almost everywhere.

Adcock said it would take 10 years to develop tidal power in the firth to a scale that had a national impact.

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

Tidal power may also be interesting, as U.S. Verdant Power inks an understanding with state - owned China Environmental Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP) to develop tidal power in China.

But the issues thrown up are still arousing passions today, as witnessed by further arguments in favour of using tidal power in the Severn and debate over the UK government's recent go - ahead for the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Somerset.

Not exact matches

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

Today a raft of young «cleantech» companies is emerging to bring a wide range of green concepts to market in fields such as biofuels, solar, wind, biomass, tidal power generation, conservation and many other categories.

Mr Huhne also announced investment in wind farms and domestic solar power, but dismissed the deployment of a tidal station in the Severn estuary, citing unworkable costs and environmental impacts.

The Liberal Democrats have long fought for a greater use of tidal power and for a programme of tidal lagoons, including at Cardiff, Colwyn Bay, and Newport, creating over 34,000 jobs in Wales alone and opportunities for hundreds of businesses in the supply chain.

Industry also thinks that prospects for tidal power are rosier under a new ministerial team at the Department for Business of Energy and Industrial Strategy, and in the light of government backing for Hinkley and a third runway at Heathrow.

«In between there's a sweet spot,» Kite said, where tidal forces turn water motion into heat, generating enough power to produce eruptions that match the observed five - hour lag.

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.

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 cpower 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 cPower Company to create a giant 300 - turbine field in the Wando Hoenggan Waterway off the South Korean coast.

The kite and cable model is designed to facilitate placing tidal turbines in deep water, where the stronger current has the potential for providing greater power but also makes it extremely difficult to plant a turbine in the seabed.

Investing in technology that turns tidal energy into clean power has paid off for the state of Maine.

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.

But tidal power is garnering increasing attention as a niche supplier of renewable alternative energy in Washington, Maine and Alaska.

Another approach operates at the bottom of New York City's East River, where in 2006 Verdant Power, Inc., planted six windmill - like turbines — each 16 feet (five meters) in diameter — 30 feet (nine meters) below the surface and churning at a peak rate of 32 revolutions per minute to transform strong tidal forces into electricity.

Ocean Renewable Power is testing a turbine in Maine and has plans for a project in Alaska's Cook Inlet, which boasts the second - highest tidal range in the world.

Tidal power may be destined to remain a niche player in the U.S. energy portfolio, but the low - carbon energy source has one key advantage over wind and solar — it's as dependable as the moon's phases

In addition to public utilities, startup companies like Ocean Renewable Power Co. are now getting involved with the tacit understanding that even if tidal energy's potential is limited, it can still be profitable.

«There is a realization that a diversified suite of renewable energy resources will displace fossil fuel,» said Monty Worthington, who is directing a tidal energy project in Alaska for the Maine - based Ocean Renewable Power Co. «To establish a place in the emerging marine renewable market, the time for [U.S.] investment is now.»

Computer simulations show that a tidal power dam in the Bay of Fundy would raise tide levels as far away as Boston.

Electricity production from a greater diversity of technologies — wind and solar are two that are in place now but we'll also see new clean energy sources such as geo - thermal, tidal power and wave energy

Verdant Power, Inc. completed the next phase of a series of component tests in support of its major tidal energy turbine project in New York City's East River.

Earlier scenes feature whales flying through the clouds and into the sea, which becomes intertwined with the reflection of the sky in the water, and the climax is impressive action sequence, featuring the realm's inhabitants using their assorted magical powers to escape a giant tidal wave.

And though he had many supporters, including powerful state legislators who pushed through a special bill that transferred powers from the school board to the superintendent, Amato could not survive the disastrous financial reports, audits, and indictments that began flowing through his office in 2005, almost as a prelude to Katrina's tidal surge.

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.

Wave and tidal currents are not a problem, but power boats from local resorts use this passage because it is the only cut in the western limb of the atoll.

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.

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

Hydropower sites in New England are largely developed already, and wave and tidal power are not yet mature technologies.

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).

As far as other alternative energy is concerned, generating power from wave action or tidal flow is tempting the UK, although they lead only in offshore wind power generation so far, just ahead in production from Denmark.

Power generation using biofuels can be competitive, but the amount of available fuel is very limited; wave and tidal power are much more expensive; hot rock geothermal power has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South AustrPower generation using biofuels can be competitive, but the amount of available fuel is very limited; wave and tidal power are much more expensive; hot rock geothermal power has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Austrpower are much more expensive; hot rock geothermal power has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Austrpower has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Austrpower is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Australia.

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.

Look at the results in France of attempting tidal power, wherein the estuaries were silted out in very fast real time

«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.

Even in the UK, which has one of the best renewable energy sources in the world, interconnecting wind, sun, wave and tidal power would still generate electricity shortages for 18 % of the time (roughly 65 days per year).

If the interest in tidal and wave power continues to escalate, the additional capacity from hydro, tidal, and wave by 2020 could easily exceed the 500 gigawatts needed to reach the Plan B goal.

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

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

He is also a leader in the study and development of renewable energy, having been instrumental in the filing of the first permits for the study of tidal and geothermal power systems in the Puget Sound area.

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 caTidal Power, or PSTP) which is taking the tidal turbine technology down a notch to generate electricity from the currents found in rivers, and catidal 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.

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.