News tagged with ocean energy

U.S. to lease waters off Mid-Atlantic for wind farms

Lighting Maryland homes with power from giant turbines off Ocean City moved closer to reality Thursday, as federal officials announced they are ready to lease vast areas along the Mid-Atlantic coast for wind farms.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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Scientists describe new species of crab that "farms" methane vents

A species of crab found a thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean near Costa Rica lives off the bacteria on its claws – bacteria that it fertilizes by waving them in methane and sulfide released from the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 03, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Federal report: Arctic much worse since 2006

(AP) -- Federal officials say the Arctic region has changed dramatically in the past five years - for the worse.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 15

Robotic boats to travel across Pacific Ocean

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, November 17, four unmanned Wave Gliders left the coast of San Francisco and began a 300-day journey across the Pacific Ocean. The vehicles, which are self-propelled and remotely ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Erratic, extreme day-to-day weather puts climate change in new light

The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Rethinking equilibrium: In nature, large energy fluctuations may rile even 'relaxed' systems

An international research team led by the University at Buffalo has shown that large energy fluctuations can rile even a "relaxed" system, raising questions about how energy might travel through structures ranging from the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Multibeam sonar can map undersea gas seeps

A technology commonly used to map the bottom of the deep ocean can also detect gas seeps in the water column with remarkably high fidelity, according to scientists from the University of New Hampshire and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New offshore turbine design to create and store energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- While many are taking to the oceans and trying to find the best ways to harness offshore wind and provide clean energy from renewable sources, the basic design of any wind turbine is that ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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New computer model better explains workings of tsunamis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because they occur so infrequently, more often than not in areas where they aren’t recorded very well, scientists have been working nearly blind in trying to understand how tsunamis work ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Today's plants far safer than Fukushima: US expert

Today's nuclear reactors are "much safer" than the Japanese plant damaged in this year's earthquake and tsunami, a US expert said Thursday, citing dramatic improvements that could prevent similar disasters.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 16

Arctic scientist's complaint being reviewed

(AP) -- An inquiry is under way into the treatment of suspended Arctic scientist Charles Monnett, an Interior Department official said.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 13, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Researchers discover hydrogen-powered symbiotic bacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels

The search for new energy sources to power mankind's increasing needs is currently a topic of immense interest. Hydrogen-powered fuel cells are considered one of the most promising clean energy alternatives. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Effects of solar flares arriving on Earth

(AP) -- The impact of a series of eruptions on the sun began arriving at Earth on Friday and could affect some communications for a day or so.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 45

Official: Suspension unrelated to polar bear paper

(AP) -- The recent suspension of Alaska wildlife biologist Charles Monnett is unrelated both to an article that he wrote about presumably drowned Arctic polar bears and to his scientific work, a federal official said Friday.

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Arctic scientist under investigation

(AP) -- A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated ...

Biology / Ecology

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