Wave & Tide
Wave and tide energy
Wave-powered Desalination
Written by Peter, on October 28, 2016
The current test device is able to produce about 1,900 litres of fresh waste a day. A slightly larger production unit is planned to produce up to 13,000 lites of desalinated water per day at about half of current desalination processes. Read more »
New Turbine Could Draw Energy from Ocean Currents
Written by Peter, on April 5, 2016
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University have developed a novel ocean current turbine which, they say, can match the efficiency of wind turbines while providing much more consistent and reliable output and taking up no land. Read more »
Tidal Fence Generates Power in Shallow Water
Written by Peter, on August 10, 2015
Engineers at the University of Oxford have developed an innovative horizontal tidal turbine that promises to be significantly more effective than existing axial flow designs. Read more »
Tidal Lagoons Could Generate 10% of UK’s Power
Written by Peter, on July 10, 2014
A British company, Tidal Lagoon Power, is proposing to develop a network of tidal lagoon power stations. It says that it could provide 10% of the UK’s power needs by building at least five full-scale tidal lagoons in UK waters by 2023, Read more »
Power from a “Wave Carpet”
Written by Peter, on February 7, 2014
University of California Berkeley professor Reza Alam and his team have developed a "wave carpet" which can extract the energy of ocean waves and turn it into electricity or fresh water The "wave carpet" is a rubber mat which sit on top of a grid of hydraulic actuators, cylinders and pumps, on a muddy ocean […] Read more »
World’s First Wind/Current Generator
Written by Peter, on August 2, 2013
Mitsui Ocean Development and Engineering Company has developed the world’s first hybrid wind and marine current generator. The device consists of a floating, vertical axis wind turbine with a “keel” made up of a current turbine. The omnidirectional Darrieus wind turbine.rotates regardless of the wind direction. The generator is located at the base of the […] Read more »
Italy to Get Wave Power Plant
Written by Peter, on May 24, 2013
UK based 40South Limited is to install a 150 kilowatt wave power module outside Livorno Port in Tuscany. The device uses two connected buoyant sections that sit one above the other at different depths. The lower section is moored to the seabed. The arms that connect them move inside each other like pistons, generating power […] Read more »
Maths Could Double Power from Waves
Written by Peter, on July 4, 2012
A team of mathematicians and engineers from the University of Exeter and Tel Aviv University have devised a means of accurately predicting the power of the next incoming wave in order to make wave power technology far more efficient – potentially extracting twice as much energy as is currently possible. The key challenges for wave […] Read more »
Study: Current Technolgy Could Power the World
Written by Peter, on January 28, 2011
According to a new study by Stanford researcher Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, of the University of California-Davis, by 2030 all new energy generation could come from wind, water and solar, and by 2050, all pre-existing energy production could be converted to renewables, using only technology that is already available and at a similar cost […] Read more »
Wave Energy from Undersea Wings
Written by Peter, on December 15, 2010
The Florida Institute of Technology is testing a new technology to convert the energy produced by waves into electricity, The so-called Wing Waves work by tapping the elliptical motion of waves 20 to 30 metres beneath the surface and converting it into mechanical energy that can be used to generate power. Each trapezoid-shaped wing of […] Read more »
