Chevron Corp has taken full responsibility for a major oil spill in Brazil’s Campos Basin as a result of drilling a well in about 4,000 feet of water 230 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. Â Oil has been leaking since November 8th. Chevron has indicated that they have plugged the well, but oil continues to [...]
The Scottish wave energy company, Aquamarine Power, has closed its office in Newport, Oregon at least for the time being. Â Aquamarine had established a one-person office in Oregon last year with the intent of deploying its wave energy buoy in the state’s coastal waters, but stated that a lack of certainty regarding the state’s marine [...]
The South Korean government has joined the frenzy regarding offshore wind development in the Asia-Pacific region. Â On the heels of China’s big investment announcement in offshore wind energy capacity, the South Koreans who currently import 97% of their energy needs, will invest $9 billion U.S. dollars to develop a 2.5 gigawatt offshore wind farm by [...]
The Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, The People’s Daily, is reporting that China plans to increase installed capacity of its offshore wind power sector to 30 gigawatts by 2020 with investments of almost $16 billion in US dollars. China is new to the offshore wind energy market with only 142,500 kilowatts of installed capacity at [...]
What could be worse than a storm that packs the punch of a category 3 hurricane coming ashore, the same storm when temperatures are low enough to make it a blizzard! Â Â The western coast of Alaska has been battered with an epic storm from the Bering Sea the likes of which has not been [...]
The Seawater Greenhouse provides a low-cost solution by enabling year-round crop production in some of the world’s hottest and driest regions. It does this using seawater and sunlight. The technology imitates natural processes, helping to restore the environment while significantly reducing the operating costs of greenhouse horticulture. Seawater is evaporated at the front of the [...]
SS Mantola Shipwreck Cargo to be Recovered by Odyssey Under UK Government Contract Tampa, FLorida. – Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMEX), a pioneer in the field of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration, announced today that it has discovered a shipwreck that was torpedoed during the World War I while carrying a shipment of silver. The SS Mantola [...]
Hydrogenics to Provide a One MegaWatt Electrolyzer for Renewable Energy Project Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products, announced that it was awarded a contract to deliver and install a 1MW HySTAT(R) electrolyzer in an industrial scale renewable energy storage project, the largest of its kind in Germany. [...]
The Maldives is a nation made up of 1,190 coral islands formed around 26 natural ring-like atolls, spread over 90,000 square kilometres of crystal clear Indian Ocean. Â Â It is truly one of the most beautiful places on earth as each atoll is made of a coral reef encircling a lagoon with deep channels dividing [...]
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was a wake up call regarding offshore drilling practices and safety protocols for the United States, but for the entire world as well. Â Americans were surprised to learn that oil companies face much stricter standards when drilling in the North Sea than were required in the United States [...]
What do golfers and sustainability gurus have in common? Â They can both celebrate the development of biodegradable golf balls made from lobster shells. Researchers at the University of Maine, working in conjunction with The Lobster Institute, have designed a golf ball made of crushed lobster shells with a biodegradable binder and coating. Â They are using [...]
Despite the fact that the federal government  issued citations against BP that said  it failed to protect safety and the environment in regards to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill disaster (trial date February 2012), they are allowing the company to bid for new oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico.  Michael Bromwich, the head [...]
Deepwater Wind is a privately held American wind power developer with plans to build the largest offshore wind farm in the United States. Â The 1,000 Megawatt utility-scale project is targeted for the deep water off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. This is a very ambitious plan considering that Cape Wind, a project that [...]
The X PRIZE Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization solving the world’s Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, global incentivized competitions, and philanthropist Wendy Schmidt, who personally funded the prize purse, Â awarded two winning teams of the $1.4 million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE. The first place team, Elastec/American Marine, from Illinois, USA, and [...]
A New Zealand designed and developed wave power device has won a prestigious grant totaling more than NZ$2 million from the US Department of Energy for a project to deploy its device in the United States. Wave Energy Technology-New Zealand (WET-NZ) has developed a ¼-scale wave power device which produces 2kW of power. It has been deployed [...]
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 [...]
BOEM Seeks Input on an Environmental Assessment for Ocean Current Technology Testing Offshore Florida
UK Opens a £20Million Marine Energy Grant Opportunity
U.S. DOE to Fund One Wave Energy Project for One Year
Norway’s Wello Will Deploy Wave Energy Converter at EMEC by the end of the Month
Ocean Power Technologies Announces Results for the Fiscal Third Quarter Ended January 31, 2012
Ocean Renewable Power Company Receives Permit for Tidal Energy Project in Bay of Fundy
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