News tagged with wave energy
The Physics of Pizza Tossing
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As dough flies through the air, transforming from a ball into a disk in the chef’s experienced hands, pizza tossing can definitely be thought of as an art. But, as a recent study shows, pizza ...
Portuguese wave-power snake dead in the water
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Opened in September as a world "first" in producing electricity from waves, a pioneering installation here is dead in the water having functioned for only a few weeks in a stormy process of research and development.
Caribbean at risk of tsunami
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Up to 30,000 residents and tourists could be under threat from a newly discovered tsunami risk in the Caribbean, according to experts in disaster risk management.
Researchers eye clean energy possibilities along Portuguese coast
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers are working with Portuguese colleagues to design a pilot-scale device that will capture significantly more of the energy in ocean waves than existing systems, and use it to ...
Rubber 'snake' could help wave power get a bite of the energy market
Jul 03, 2008 |
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A device consisting of a giant rubber tube may hold the key to producing affordable electricity from the energy in sea waves.
Galician waves are best for producing energy
Nov 30, 2009 |
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The best coastal areas in the Iberian Peninsula in terms of harnessing wave energy are the Costa da Morte and Estaca de Bares, in La Coruña, Galicia, according to two pioneering studies by researchers from ...
On the Crest of Wave Energy
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The ocean is a potentially vast source of electric power, yet as engineers test new technologies for capturing it, the devices are plagued by battering storms, limited efficiency, and the ...
Britain launches renewables drive to cut emissions
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Britain announced plans Wednesday to slash emissions with a huge increase in the use of renewable energy to generate one third of the country's electricity needs by 2020.
Growth versus global warming
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Houses on stilts, small scale energy generation and recycling our dishwater are just some of the measures that are being proposed to prepare our cities for the effects of global warming.
New work on leading wave power
Dec 09, 2008 |
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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 ...
