Video: What is marine energy?
So you have heard of solar power and wind energy, but what about their younger cousin, marine energy?
Jan 10, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Biden plans floating platforms to expand offshore wind power
The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to develop floating platforms in the deep ocean for wind towers that could power millions of homes and vastly expand offshore wind in the United States.
Sep 15, 2022
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Engineering
Desalination may be key to averting global water shortage, but it will take time
Clean freshwater is critical for sustaining human life. However, 1.1 billion people lack access to it worldwide. Desalination represents an increasingly popular way of addressing this.
Sep 2, 2022
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Human-occupied submersible Alvin makes historic dive
Today, the human-occupied submersible Alvin made history when it successfully reached a depth of 6,453 meters (nearly 4 miles) in the Puerto Rico Trench, north of San Juan, P.R. This is the deepest dive ever in the 58-year ...
Jul 22, 2022
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Preventing the impact sound annoyance from lightweight floors
One of the biggest noise nuisances in homes arises from people simply moving around their homes. In particular, this can be quite disturbing for people living in buildings where adjoining homes have traditional wooden floors. ...
Jul 5, 2022
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Robotics
Building the first robots to clean up ocean floor litter
There are up to 66 million tons of waste in our oceans today, and the overwhelming majority of it is found on the ocean floor. However, with the exception of a few potentially dangerous operations using human divers, most ...
Jun 9, 2022
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Engineering
Using existing undersea fiber cables to detect seismic events
A team of researchers with the National Physical Laboratory and the University of Edinburgh, Google and Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica developed a way to use existing undersea fiber cables to detect seismic events. ...
May 20, 2022 report
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How the terrifying evacuations from the twin towers on 9/11 helped make today's skyscrapers safer
The 2001 World Trade Center disaster was the most significant high-rise evacuation in modern times, and the harrowing experiences of the thousands of survivors who successfully escaped the twin towers have had a significant ...
Sep 10, 2021
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9/11 conspiracy theories debunked: Engineering experts explain how the twin towers collapsed
The collapse of the World Trade Center has been subject to intense public scrutiny over the 20 years since the centre's twin towers were struck by aircraft hijacked by terrorists. Both collapsed within two hours of impact, ...
Sep 9, 2021
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Scientists produce high-resolution urban floor area map of China
Recently, using random forest regression models, scientists estimated an urban floor (building) area map with high accuracy for mainland China.
Jul 30, 2021
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