Green Options » Pisa http://greenoptions.com/tag/pisa Posts tagged 'Pisa' Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:55:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en An “Italian Brain” and the Top-Secret Tidal Energy Machine http://ecoworldly.com/2008/07/08/an-italian-brain-and-the-top-secrets-machine-to-get-energy-from-tidal-power/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/07/08/an-italian-brain-and-the-top-secrets-machine-to-get-energy-from-tidal-power/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:55:35 +0000 Eva Pratesi http://ecoworldly.com/2008/07/08/an-italian-brain-and-the-top-secrets-machine-to-get-energy-from-tidal-power/ With high oil prices, dwindling fuel supplies and a growing pressure to reduce global warming, governments are looking for brilliant ideas. Why don’t consider the sea? Waves are a powerful source of energy and in the last years a growing attention is producing a wide range of prototypes. Machines of various shapes and sizes are being tested in last years to see how they could capture waves and tides to create “marine” energy.

A new experiment comes from Michele Grassi, researcher at the department of math at the University of Pisa, in the centre of Italy, who built a prototype of a wave-trapping machine.

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