Wave & Tidal Energy: 8 Knot Current Produces More Energy Than 236 MPH Wind
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) ocean wave energy could provide 10% of the world's energy needs within the next two decades.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) ocean wave energy could provide 10% of the world's energy needs within the next two decades.
Climate change is already affecting US Department of Defense (DOD) installations and infrastructure around the world. The image above shows a submarine dry-dock in San Diego; the U.S. Navy is concerned that these facilities are…
Visible Light Communication (VLC) Everyone has heard of Wi-Fi, a technology that uses invisible radio waves to transmit data via the electromagnetic spectrum. A new technology, Li-Fi, is being developed in labs around the world…
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There are dreamers and then there are engineers and financiers. Humans are currently reveling in the idea of traveling back to the moon, mining asteroids and traveling on to Mars. But when we consider just…
Isaac Asimov described the first space based solar panels transmitting solar energy back to earth in his 1941 sci-fi novel Reason. With the renewable energy industry continuing its hectic growth, a number of companies around the…
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Small Number Of Huge Power Plants Inefficient? The day seems to be coming when large power plants will be complemented by a large number of much smaller, even tiny, power plants: solar roads, photovoltaic panels…