ocean current Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 19:38:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Ocean Current Energy Harvester Cheaper and Easier to Maintain https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-ocean-current-energy-harvester-cheaper-and-easier-to-maintain-20130704/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-ocean-current-energy-harvester-cheaper-and-easier-to-maintain-20130704/#respond Thu, 04 Jul 2013 19:38:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38933 Solar power drives everything on this planet, from ocean currents to the trade winds, all of which could be used to generate electricity for the increasing power demands of human civilization. Ocean currents can be harvested for their energy, but the equipment to do so has often been expensive and limited in scope. Previous generations […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-ocean-current-energy-harvester-cheaper-and-easier-to-maintain-20130704/feed/ 0 38933 An Idea to Naturally Harvest Algae for Biofuels By Using Stable Ocean Currents https://www.greenoptimistic.com/algae-biofuel-harvest-ocean-current-20100608/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/algae-biofuel-harvest-ocean-current-20100608/#respond Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:20:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7922 Here's an interesting idea to cultivate algae that could be transformed into biodiesel. The basic idea is that people should use the stable currents that exist in the Pacific ocean to carry algae from one point to another, time during which the algae should mature with the ocean's support and some slowly-dissolving nutrients that should float along with them.

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