By Zachary Shahan •
December 21, 2009
Wave energy seems to be Scotland’s lottery number. Scotland-based energy developer Pelamis just signed a joint venture agreement with the European energy giant Vattenfall for a large, almost $100 million energy project off Scotland’s Shetland Islands. This follows the recent launch of Oyster, reportedly the largest working hydro-electric wave energy device in the world, by the Scottish government and partners.
This new project by Pelamis and Vattenfall is being named Aegir, named after a Norse mythological sea god. It is Scotland’s largest wave power scheme.
By Susan Kraemer •
December 12, 2009
Moving on from the problems encountered in the Northern California wave energy tests off Mendocino and Humboldt Counties; PG&E has just filed a new preliminary permit application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for another three-year study of a potential wave power site.
This time the proposed site is off the coast of Santa Barbara County at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Like every Federal Agency, the Air Force is now under Executive Order to cut transport carbon emissions 30% and [...]
By Ariel Schwartz •
March 17, 2009
We were pretty excited about Pelamis’ wave power plan in Portugal., but not every technology written about here pans out in the end. Pelamis’ €9 million Aguacadora wave power project–the world’s largest–has been taken offline due to numerous technological and financial setbacks.
By Kay Sexton •
January 11, 2009
The planet’s 44 million servers actually use 0.5% percent of the world’s electricity. If you total up data centre emissions, one guesstimate is that they are close to the same level as carbon output of nations such as Argentina.
In the U.S. we hear a lot of talk about wind and solar power, but considerably less about wave power. Wave power is simply using the power of the ocean to generate electricity. Well, it’s not quite that simple…
Professor Stephen Salter at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, began the first modern experiments with wave energy in the 1970s. His invention, called Salter’s Duck is still considered to be the most efficient wave energy technology
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