In response to my recent post Wave Energy Isn’t Going To Make It, a commenter writes: Wave energy may not be completely finished. Such technologies may not be economic in today’s economic dynamics, but who knows what the future may hold for …
Category: Hydrokinetics
Wave Energy Isn’t Going To Make It
Facebook users who follow renewables are quite accustomed to seeing videos on ocean wave energy, like this one. I have to admit; there is an intuitive appeal to the subject, as we can all visualize the vast power of the …
Powering Your House with Flowing Water: There’s Beauty in that Silver Singin’ River
Here’s a video suggesting that hydrokinetic energy can power your house. Of course it can, but the video is misleading on a couple of levels: 1) It suggests that this technology for converting the kinetic energy in moving water to electrical …
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New Hydrokinetic Devices: Burden of Proof Is on the Inventor
Here an extremely common occurrence here at 2GreenEnergy: the submission of an idea from an inventor with a patent but no working model of the device. Like so many others of this type, I respond:
Exec Turnover in the Wave Energy Industry Raises Suspicions
Nowadays, everyone’s alert to “fake news”; no one wants to be duped by deliberate lies that wind up in our media. But, of all the different types of stories we come across each day, perhaps the most dubious are those …
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Tidal Energy Has One Key Disadvantage
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.”
Scotland Set Yet Another Record for Renewable Energy
Even if the water temperatures were enticing, which they’re not, you still wouldn’t want to swim in the channel north of Scotland that separates the Atlantic from the North Sea (pictured). The tides are fearsome, characteristic of all ocean shorelines …
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Wave Energy Extraction Device
Here’s a note from clean energy entrepreneur Tom Woodbridge, President of Aqua-Magnetics, a company that’s developing a linear generator that directly converts the motion of wind chop and ocean swells into electric power.
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Articles on Tidal Energy
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 …
Like All Flavors of Renewable Energy, Geothermal Keeps Improving
There is no doubt that geothermal energy occupies an important place in the pantheon of renewable resources. Perhaps the post child of success in this endeavor is Iceland, a place where fossil fuels are hard to come by, and one …
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