Tag: Tidal Energy

In my quest to learn Spanish, I try to read articles on renewable energy in that language. Here we have: La empresa líder mundial en energía mareomotriz, Nova Innovation, ha completado con éxito su proyecto de fabricar su turbina mareomotriz de accionamiento …

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Here’s a good article for those looking for an introduction to tidal energy, though it sugar-coats the subject of costs. The author writes: “Once it’s installed in the ocean, it functions cost-competitively to other forms of renewable energy.”

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We’ve all had the experience of flipping through an in-flight magazine and finding ourselves utterly incapable of generating even the vaguest interest in any of the articles they contain. We can almost hear the editor ordering the staff journalists to …

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Here’s a cool little video that I post largely because it serves as a microcosm of human ingenuity.  How many different ways can you invent to solve the same problem (in this case, extracting the kinetic energy out of moving …

Ocean Hydrokinetics: Wave, Tidal, and Current Read More »

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It seems sure that virtually every form of renewable energy will eventually wind up playing a role–somewhere.  Just like the U.S. has wind in the Great Plains, solar in the Southwest and biomass in the Deep South, each part of …

When It Comes To Renewable Energy, Everything’s Good for Somebody Read More »

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Here’s a question I was asked earlier today.  If the average ocean depth is two miles, and 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, that means that there are tens of millions of cubic miles of water bobbing …

A Fond and Sorrowful Goodbye to Tidal Energy Read More »

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Here’s another post from the Energy Ocean show in Atlantic City, NJ.  As I mentioned earlier, ocean energy in its various forms, including off-shore wind, tidal, ocean current, wave, and OTEC, lacks the maturity of its cousins in renewable energy, e.g., …

Ocean Energy Is Important, But Faces Stormy Conditions Read More »

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Just a quick note to let readers know that this Energy Ocean show is really worth-while, and I’m very glad I built an extra day onto my trip to New York to attend it.  The introductory speaker opened the proceedings …

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I just had a conversation with a college engineering student looking to do an internship at 2GreenEnergy.  I sure hope this works out, as it’s a terrific “win-win-win,” as I like to call it:  a) 2GreenEnergy gets more high-quality content, …

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As a part of our ongoing quest to produce “infographics” that lay out the basics of energy, I invite you to check out the chart here, presenting the notion that all the energy we harness and use here on Earth …

Infographic – All Forms of Energy on Earth Came from the Big Bang Read More »

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