Governments world-wide are scrambling to find safe and efficient forms of alternative energy to combat global warming, rising fuel prices, and other ecological concerns. In this global race, Spain and Portugal are emerging as the surprising front runners – and not everyone is happy about it.
According to a recent article by Gabrielle Pickard, Spain is [...]
It’s estimated that the energy density in waves is more than 800 times higher than in wind, currently the most popular alternative energy resource. Rafael Waters, from the Uppsala University in Sweden, decided harness this energy. But, instead of adapting conventional energy technology, he built a durable, maintenance-free, simple mechanical construction that was adapted to [...]
Marine renewable energy — it has great potential, but is yet unproven. That’s changing. Today we have the US Navy erecting tidal turbines off the coast of the state of Washington, and Verdant Power’s Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project http://www.verdantpower.com/what-initiative is being operated in New York City’s East River. The validity of this approach might [...]