Sentences with phrase «wave power»

But are the risks of wave power worth taking?

The burgeoning wave power industry has its own unique set of hurdles.

These are just the four basic designs I could find that harness wave power today.

But with only 4 MW of currently installed capacity of wave power there is little research available.

There might not be much wave power deployed so far, but you have to start somewhere!

That is why knowing how much energy the waves will be bringing within a few hours is as important as having available efficient prototypes to make use of wave power.

Last month, Gizmag was on the ground in Gibraltar as EWP inaugurated the first ever grid - connected wave power station in Europe.

The small town of Mutriku in the Basque region of Spain is the first in the world to open a commercial wave power plant.

This is why I was extremely pleased to secure a Westminster Hall debate last week on the funding for technology innovation in wave power.

The remaining 230 gigawatts in our projected growth by 2020 would come from a scattering of large dams still being built in countries like Brazil and Turkey, a large number of small hydro facilities, a fast - growing number of tidal projects (some of them in the multi-gigawatt range), and numerous smaller wave power projects.

This important 19 MW project is the next step in the on - going relationship between American wave power technology designer Ocean Power Technologies and Lockheed Martin, one of the world's space specialists.

Shoreside, Navy scientists are experimenting with wave power at Hawaii's Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps base and exploring a promising new technology called ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), which uses warm surface water to heat a liquid with a very low boiling point, such as ammonia.

Over the years the titles got more descriptive and catchy (my favorite is still one I wrote about wave power in 2005: Bouncing Buoy from Oregon State Generates Shocker) the posts got longer, we covered more environmental news, we moved away from a product focus to lifestyle.

Ireland has the most ambitious wave power development goal: 500 megawatts of wave generating capacity by 2020, enough to supply 7 percent of its electricity.

Just two weeks ago Aquamarine Power Ltd was touting its new Oyster wave power unit.

The Oyster wave power generator is one of seven different prototypes deployed in the UK (Source: Aquamarine Power)

Captain Ken - ichi Horie, aboard the Suntory Mermaid II, prepares to travel solo 4,350 miles from Hawaii to Japan on wave power alone.

It enables contractors to test arrays of wave power devices at deep - water locations and already has one company signed up to plug into the hub.

Carcas is sure that the United Kingdom, which has been calculated to have triple the potential wave power it needs to produce all of the country's electricity, will have its first wave farm within five years.

Enevoldson reckons he has found a way to soar higher than anyone had thought possible in a winged craft, by hitching a ride on awesome stratospheric waves powered by the polar vortex.

Pioneering research could provide a significant boost in the vital quest to harness wave power as a viable renewable energy source for the future.

Most other technology developed for harvesting wave power — including Finavera Renewables's AquaBuOY, WaveBob Ltd.'s wave - absorbing buoy and another buoy - mounted generator made by SRI International — absorbs energy from riding the waves as they bob up and down.

The remaining 135 gigawatts in our projected growth of hydropower would come from a scattering of large dams still being built in countries like Brazil and Turkey, a large number of small hydro facilities, a fast - growing number of tidal projects, and numerous smaller wave power projects.

Certainly it's also a function of years of government - funded research, but other fields like wave power, instream hydro, and biofuels have had the same research with limited results.

This buoys future is likely to be in powering undersea research equipment and robots (instead of battery power), while the general aim of research elsewhere is to create «farms» of wave power buoys to supply onshore needs through the electricity grid.

Cost Competitive: Even in these early stages of commercialization, Seabased wave power can be cost competitive.

He sees wave power eventually providing some 20 percent of the United Kingdom's electricity needs, backing up the variability of the burgeoning wind power industry, which is set to rise to some 33 gigawatts within a decade.

Last month, Aquamarine Power finished the construction of its second full - scale wave power device, the Oyster 800.

Tony Trapp, managing director of Engineering Business Ltd. in England, calculates that capturing just 1 to 2 percent of global wave power — the share he considers recoverable — could supply 13 percent of the world's current demand for electricity.

West of Ireland and Scotland, the average wave power rises to 70 kilowatts.

A new Brown University study stands to substantially refine what they thought was going on: what really matters is not a sustained elevation in beta wave power, but instead the rate of specific bursts of beta wave activity, ideally with perfect timing.

Time allowing, you'll get close to many lava tubes, sea caves, sea grottos and wave powered blow holes.

But we scooped»em here - read the Treehugger take on wave power below.

Wind farms need to be where there is a good wind resource, wave power obviously needs to be on the coast, and biofuel power is best placed near where the biofuels are grown.

Because the seagrass is not there to stabilize sediments or reduce wave power, these factors accelerate the decay of our northern Gulf of Mexico coastline.

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.

I have a idea to solve the UK power problem Invest heavily in Wind solar and wave power sell it to the french when they need it.

VentureBeat notes that the company's design is an innovation on a traditional wave power structure that uses the pressure of the waves to keep the device floating above the water.

Deep water wave power resources have been estimated to be greater than 2 TW.

J&D find that water will be a relatively small contribution to overall energy production, since wave power is only practical near coastlines, and most areas suitable for hydroelectric power generation are already in use.

The quite venerable organisation now includes tidal energy and wave power organisations, since it began as a simply academic wind power lobby.

Using the latest gearbox design, 5X more energy per ton is generated than in previous wave power systems at less expense (one - third the cost.)

«We are looking towards the future where wave power generation will join the commercial realm along with other types of renewables like wind energy,» said Jason Bak, CEO of Finavera Renewables.

When Nature (subscription) looked over the whole portfolio of carbon - free electricity options last month, it left wave power for last.