The ocean, which already gives us so much, is providing an absolutely awe- inspiring light show at night off the the coast of San Diego, California. Here is a great video and link to a beautiful photo gallery of the natural phenomenom. For those who would like to know the science behind the event, see [...]
Wave energy company Wavestar who’s 1:10 scale prototype has been successfully producing power for 3 years off the coast of Denmark, is using high tech equipment that is usually more at home on an automotive assembly plant floor than the ocean. The central controlling system of their wave energy converter supplied by Rockwell Automation is comprised of [...]
NOAA’s Fisheries Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Mexican environmental officials today released an updated plan to guide and strengthen the conservation and recovery of the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. The Bi-National Recovery Plan revises the current recovery plan issued in 1992. The recovery plan updates the conservation efforts that have proved [...]
Wave energy company Aquamarine Power took another major step towards the commercialisation of its Oyster technology with the announcement today of £7 million of new funding and a commitment of further investment in the company from its existing shareholders over the next two years. The company has closed a funding round of £7 million comprising [...]
Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation (OTE Corp.) and Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further the development of two ocean thermal energy conversion plants in The Bahamas in concert with BEC’s strong policy to promote renewable energy resources in The Bahamas to maximize Bahamian energy independence and environmental benefits. This [...]
Critical Software Technologies (UK), Critical Software (PT) and Critical Materials (PT) are working with Floating Power Plant to help the company adopt a proactive approach to monitoring the condition and structural health of its Poseidon off-shore plant. Critical’s work on the Poseidon prototype, situated off the coast of Lolland in Denmark, will open up an [...]
NASA’s new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission’s anticipated discoveries. Aquarius, which is aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D (Satelite de Aplicaciones Científicas) observatory, is making NASA’s first space observations of ocean surface salinity variations – a key component of Earth’s climate. [...]
Coral reef managers in the Northern Mariana Islands will now receive early warning of dangerous environmental conditions that can weaken and kill high value coral reefs, thanks to a new coral observing station added today in Lao Lao Bay, Saipan. The new station is a first-of-its-kind for the Pacific region and joins a network of [...]
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of highly qualified and experienced Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. The study will [...]
Federal regulators have had some difficulty attracting candidates for the job of enforcing safety and environmental rules on offshore oil and gas drillers, Michael Bromwich, director of the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), said Tuesday. Bromwich has agreed to remain as head of the new U.S. Bureau of Safety and [...]
The history and future of ice will be explored at The Australian National University tonight in a public lecture that will cover science, humanities and climate change. In his inaugural lecture as the WK Hancock Professor of History, Tom Griffiths from the School of History in the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU will [...]
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin in connection with OPT’s proposed commercial-scale wave power generation project at Reedsport, Oregon. Lockheed Martin will provide design, manufacturing, system integration and supply chain management expertise to enhance OPT’s PowerBuoy(R) technology. This builds on previous work conducted by Lockheed Martin and [...]
Clemson University — By looking to Mother Nature for solutions, researchers have identified a promising new binder material for lithium-ion battery electrodes that not only could boost energy storage, but also eliminate the use of toxic compounds now used to manufacture the components. Known as alginate, the material is extracted from common, fast-growing brown algae. [...]
The US Air Force Academy’s aeronautical researchers finished testing the newest form of alternative energy at the Offshore Technology Research Center on Sept. 2. The two weeks of testing proved the fundamental mechanics of the Academy’s ocean wave energy converter on the largest scale to date. The ocean wave energy converter is the brainchild of Dr. [...]
Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, revealed today that taxpayer handouts totaling EUR 3.3 billion are keeping the European Union’s (EU’s) fishing industry afloat, which is more than three times greater than the amount typically quoted in public figures. In a new report entitled The European Union and [...]
With our oceans and coastal ecosystems, and the economies and jobs they support, facing constant and increasingly grave threats from a variety of sources, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators will meet next week to form a new Senate Oceans Caucus. The Caucus will work to increase awareness and find common ground in responding to [...]
Aquamarine Power Gets Green Light for 2.4MW Demonstration Project in Orkney
Ecotricity Enters Wave Energy Industry
Alstom and SSE Renewables Create Joint Venture to Co-Develop World’s Largest Wave Farm off the Coast of Scotland
Pelamis Wave Power Up for Sale
Major New Green Energy Fund Acquires Stake in Aquamarine Power
Eco Wave Power Company is Taking the Fast Track to Success
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