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Wind + water = untapped energy: An abundance of power exists above Earth's oceans, study finds

Wind + water = untapped energy: An abundance of power exists above Earth's oceans, study finds

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (58) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wind energy over the planet's oceans is a vastly underutilized renewable resource, according to UC Irvine researchers.


Jellyfish: Far from Passive Drifters-in-the-Currents

Jellyfish: Far from Passive Drifters-in-the-Currents

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you were to snorkel just before dawn at the popular tropical Pacific destination Jellyfish Lake, you'd have lots of company: millions of golden jellyfish, known to scientists as Mastigias ...


Turning the tide to energy

Turning the tide to energy

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (20) | comments 6

NASA researchers who developed a new way to power robotic underwater vehicles believe a spin-off technology could help convert ocean energy into electrical energy on a much larger scale. The researchers hope ...





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Acidic oceans could aid photosynthesis

Biology / Ecology

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Groundbreaking Victoria University research shows that ocean acidification may have no negative effect on tropical corals and local sea anemones - in fact it may improve photosynthesis.


Ocean acidification is accelerating and severe damages are imminent

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (25) | comments 27

Urgent action is needed to limit damages to marine ecosystems, including coral reefs and fisheries, due to increasing ocean acidity, according to 155 of the world’s scientific experts who will release the Monaco Declaration ...


Study Finds 'Pre-Existing Condition' Fueled Killer Cyclone

Study Finds 'Pre-Existing Condition' Fueled Killer Cyclone

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A "pre-existing condition" in the North Indian Ocean stoked the sudden intensification of last year's Tropical Cyclone Nargis just before its devastating landfall in Burma, according to a ...


Breakthrough made in assessing marine phytoplankton health

Breakthrough made in assessing marine phytoplankton health

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from Oregon State University, NASA and other organizations said today that they have succeeded for the first time in measuring the physiology of marine phytoplankton through satellite measurements ...


New findings show increased ocean acidification in Alaska waters

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The same things that make Alaska's marine waters among the most productive in the world may also make them the most vulnerable to ocean acidification. According to new findings by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist, ...


New work on leading wave power

Technology / Energy

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A technology that is adapted to the special conditions for wave energy places the wave energy technology from Uppsala on the absolute cutting edge in the world. In his dissertation, Rafael Waters presents the findings from ...


NASA Develops Algae Bioreactor as a Sustainable Energy Source

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- As a clean energy alternative, NASA invented an algae photo-bioreactor that grows algae in municipal wastewater to produce biofuel and a variety of other products.


Signs of ideal surfing conditions spotted in ocean of solar wind

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick have found what could be the signal of ideal wave "surfing" conditions for individual particles within the massive turbulent ocean of the solar wind. The discovery ...


Caltech researchers link tiny sea creatures to large-scale ocean mixing

150 years later, Darwin vindicated... by jellyfish: Researchers link tiny sea creatures to large-scale ocean mixing

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creatures large and small may play an important role in the stirring of ocean waters, according to a study released Wednesday that confirms a theory advanced by Charles Darwin.


Study: Public trust doctrine could aid management of US oceans

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Since Congress lifted a moratorium on offshore drilling last year, federal lawmakers have grappled with the issue of how best to regulate U.S. ocean waters to allow oil, wave and wind energy development, while sustainably ...



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