ocean energy Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:03:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Does Ocean Energy Mean Wave Power or Tide Power? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-energy-wave-power-or-tide-power-20130711/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-energy-wave-power-or-tide-power-20130711/#comments Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:03:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=39175 Another form of hydroelectricity being investigated involves the movement of the ocean. Here, consistency could mean the difference between wave power or tide power. Like the wind that drives them, ocean waves are intermittent. Thus, any wave power generators that have been developed suffer from the same problems that on- and off-shore wind power generators […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-energy-wave-power-or-tide-power-20130711/feed/ 2 39175 OTEC: Lockheed Martin Studies Ocean Energy Production Tech https://www.greenoptimistic.com/otec-lockheed-martin-studies-ocean-energy-production-tech-20081121/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/otec-lockheed-martin-studies-ocean-energy-production-tech-20081121/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:32:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1212 Lockheed Martin, specialized in building rockets and aircraft engines, is surprisingly taking over this niche of energy production. They spent the last year studying how to make a big and long fiberglass pipe to sink it into the ocean.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/otec-lockheed-martin-studies-ocean-energy-production-tech-20081121/feed/ 3 1212 Francois Kneider's Wave Powered Boat Working Principles https://www.greenoptimistic.com/francois-kneiders-wave-powered-boat-working-principles-20080810/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/francois-kneiders-wave-powered-boat-working-principles-20080810/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:54:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=734 While about a month ago I was presenting an article about Suntory Mermaid II, a boat powered only by the movement of the waves, I am now presenting an inventor, named Francois Kneider, who in his seventies, continues to amaze the people who know him by the number of ideas he has and the innovations he brought to life. In 2005, he focused on building wave powered systems for boats.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/francois-kneiders-wave-powered-boat-working-principles-20080810/feed/ 2 734 BioWave – free electricity from mimicking sea plants https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biowave-free-electricity-from-mimicking-sea-plants-20080516/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biowave-free-electricity-from-mimicking-sea-plants-20080516/#respond Fri, 16 May 2008 13:55:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=346 A long time ago, nature set its oceans and the living things in them. There were plants residing on the bottom of the ocean, plants who sway back and forth, as the water moves around them. So, BioPower Systems from Australia thought that making an under-ocean energy collecting system whose movement resembles with the one […]

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