Energy & Green Tech
As climate change alters the planet, it is causing massive changes to our oceans. Because these waters absorb excess heat and energy from our atmosphere, the ocean has soaked up 90% of the heat generated from greenhouse-gas ...
Oct 4, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Imagine this: Clothing that charges your smart watch as you walk, buildings that vibrate in the wind and power your lights, a road that extracts energy from the friction created by moving cars, and flexible structures that ...
Sep 23, 2022
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Engineering
A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new way to generate electricity using ocean waves. In their paper published in the journal One Earth, the group describes how their new device works ...
Energy & Green Tech
A group of University of Texas at Dallas researchers and their colleagues have made significant improvements to energy-harvesting yarns they invented called twistrons, which are made from carbon nanotubes and produce electricity ...
Sep 8, 2022
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Engineering
Harnessing power from ocean waves is a complicated endeavor which a South Australian-Chinese research team is diving deep to take into a new direction.
Aug 2, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Ocean waves can be powerful, containing enough energy to push around sand, pebbles and even boulders during storms. These waves, as well as smaller, more gentle ones, could be tapped as a source of renewable energy. Now, ...
Oct 20, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A self-described surf junkie, Muglia catches waves on his surfboard off the coast of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Further into those waters—15 nautical miles to be exact—sits another surfer. Aptly named Waverider, ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Offshore industries, like marine research, fish farming, and mineral mining, often rely on big ships with large crews. Without clean energy to power these vessels, each trip out to sea and back to shore is not only expensive ...
Aug 23, 2021
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Researchers have developed prototype technology that can double the power harvested from ocean waves, in an advance that could finally make wave energy a viable renewable alternative.
Aug 17, 2021
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To find a power source for buoys, look no further than the ocean itself.
Aug 4, 2021
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