August 6, 2010

Columbia Power Technologies plans to test an intermediate-scale version of its wave energy converter device in Puget Sound later this year.

After the successful control tests, the company will move testing to open water in Puget Sound this fall. Columbia will test the intermediate 1:7 scale prototype, which will stand approximately 11 feet tall. [More]

June 2, 2010

To a casual observer, the buoy off the shore of Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) might look like nothing more than a bright yellow spot in a blue ocean. But this isn’t an ordinary buoy — it’s a small electrical generator, creating renewable electricity as it bobs up and down on the waves. It’s also a test project by the U.S. Navy to see whether a wider use of wave energy technology is a practical way to power Navy and Marine Corps installations. [More]

May 27, 2010

A floating platform, simple turbine and tropical oceans could be the key to producing 30 percent or more of the total energy the world consumes today, according to Lockheed Martin. The technology in play: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). [More]

May 24, 2010

Hydropower harnesses water power to create reliable, clean and plentiful renewable energy, but dams can have an unintended impact on wildlife — fish swimming through turbines can get caught and die.
The impact can be minimized, though, with new technologies being designed by engineers at Voith Hydro. [More]

May 14, 2010

Many residents of Santa Barbara County in California still remember the 1969 oil spill there, when an oil drill six miles off the county’s coast blew out, spilling an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 barrels of crude oil. The resulting oil slick covered 800 square miles of ocean, killing thousands of birds and marine animals and depositing tar on beaches throughout the state’s Central Coast. [More]

April 9, 2010

Resolute Marine Energy - a Boston-based, wave-energy technology company - hopes to test ocean wave energy conversion prototypes in Maine sometime in the summer of 2011. [More]