In the course of a given month, I’m sure I contradict myself at least once or twice regarding the hope that ocean wave energy can come to play a prominent role in the unfolding world of renewables. Let’s put it this …
Category: Hydrokinetics
Novel Approach to Ocean Wave Energy
Here’s an approach to extracting the energy from ocean waves whose inventor asks my opinion. I love looking at new ideas. Here goes: Will this generate electricity? Certainly. Will it provide a viable approach to solving the problem of cost-effective …
New Concept in Ocean Current Hydrokinetics
A colleague sent me this piece on a Dutch company’s introduction of a floating apparatus that generates electricity from tidal currents (pictured), and asked for my opinion. Here goes: I admit that this device offers an advantage over those that …
Ocean Current Hydro Project Faces Political Hurdles
A colleague of mine is hard at work developing a solution for ocean current hydrokinetics, and I happen to believe that his approach is the best and most cost-effective method of all those that I’ve reviewed over the years. He …
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Steps We Can Take To Cut Down on the Number of Nonsensical Business Plans in Renewable Energy
When I pointed out the drawbacks to the nonsensical business plan described here, the woman who sent it to me immediately followed with another, accompanied by this hopeful note: “How about this one?” I wrote:
Ocean Wave Energy – An Update
I try to help readers keep their fingers on the pulse of all the different flavors of renewable energy as they come along—even relatively obscure concepts like ocean wave. Extracting energy from the ocean waves has been a dream of …
Brazil Still Passionate about “Small” Hydrokinetics
As part of my quest to help a colleague find an investor for his small hydrokinetics projects in Brazil, he and I have frequent conversations about the strength of the overall market. In that vein, he just sent me this …
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Renewable Energy from the Oceans’ Tides
These amazing photographs of the Earth’s moon provide another opportunity for me to link to one of our renewable energy infographics that depicts the four different basic types of energy that are available to us. Of course, the orbit of …
Concept in Hydrokinetics
I awakened this morning to an interesting question in my inbox from frequent commenter and 2GreenEnergy supporter Brain McGowan, who asked: What’s your take on this hydrokinetic device? Coincidentally, a colleague of mine showed me an extremely similar device about six …
Concept in Ocean Current Energy
A gentleman from South Africa asked for my feedback on a new concept in hydrokinetics aimed at capturing energy from ocean currents. I hope a few readers will find my response interesting: Hi, and thanks very much for sharing this …
