Sentences with phrase «wave energy converts»
Edinburgh - based Pelamis Wave Power, Ltd., (PWP) has since September been working with asset management firm Babcock & Brown, energy provider Energias de Portugal, and Efacec (a Portugese maker of electromechanical devices) on the Agucadoura project, which has three red Pelamis wave energy converts bobbing in the waves three miles (4.8 kilometers) off Portugal's coast.
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Using transducers, uBeam's device, which is not yet on the market, converts electrical energy into ultrasound waves and then back into electrical energy.
During the collision, approximately three solar masses were converted into energy and radiated as gravitational waves, leaving behind a 53 - solar - mass black hole.
Such tags, costing just a few cents, carry a small, non-powered chip that, when hit by radio waves from a nearby «reader,» converts some of the radio energy into its own radio pulse in return.
As the black holes merged, they converted about two suns» worth of mass into energy, radiated as gravitational waves.
Efforts to convert the energy of motion — from footsteps, ocean waves, wind and other movement sources — are well underway.
That's where the thick concrete comes in: As the cylinders deflect the seismic waves, they would also absorb some of the waves» energy and convert it into heat and sound.
Some of the laser energy is absorbed by the tissues and converted into heat, leading to rapid thermal expansion inside the tissues that produces ultrasonic waves.
Surface acoustic wave devices transmit a high - frequency signal by converting electric energy to acoustic energy.
The American instrument is an acoustic transducer, which converts electrical energy into sound waves.
Rice's new drawbridge method for color switching incorporates metal nanoparticles that absorb light energy and convert it into plasmons, waves of electrons that flow like a fluid across a particle's surface.
When the 31 solar mass and 19 solar mass black holes merged, two solar masses worth of black hole mass were converted into gravitational wave energy, which explains why the object that the observatory detected was only 49 times more massive than the sun, not 51, the authors explained.
In an instant, the equivalent mass twice that of our sun was converted directly into gravitational waves — briefly producing more energy than all the energy that is radiated as light by all the galaxies in the universe at any moment, LIGO scientists say.
If you were intent on stopping the waves, Bluck explains that you could scatter them with a fine mesh of metal or absorb them - although the energy would be converted to heat, which would cook your skin.
The industry hopes to increase its capacity 66 percent in 15 to 20 years by upgrading dams and converting non-powered dams, as well as through technological innovations such as wave and tidal energy.
In late October, Finavera watched its wave - to - energy converting test buoy sink off the shores of the central Oregon Coast.
On the other hand, with the advent of molecular nanotechnology we may be able to develop micron sized factories with a uniform design, accurate down to the molecular level, capable to convert readily available raw materials to some high energy density, non-flammable, non-toxic chemical using short wave solar photons captured by molecular antennas, with no harmful emissions whatsoever.
It is this gravitational potential energy that is converted back into kinetic energy of motion of the departing wave.
The glider has a special wing system that converts wave energy into forward thrust to keep the robot moving through the water.
Soalr energy comes in as short wave and gets converted largely to long wave.
A more certain method of reducing global arming caused by both fossil - fuel soot and carbon dioxide is to convert vehicles from fossil fuels to electric, plug - in hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, where the electricity or hydrogen is produced by a renewable energy sources [sic], such as wind, solar geothermal, hydroelectric, wave, or tidal power.»