February 8th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
Offshore wind generation and wave energy foundations can step-up local abundances of fish and crabs. The reef-like structures also favor for example blue mussels and barnacles. What’s more, it is possible to increase or diminish the abundance of various species by altering the geomorphological blueprint of foundation. This was demonstrated by Dan Wilhelmsson of the Department of Zoology, Stockholm University.
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February 5th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
A global team of researchers led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has produced a new technique of assessing the absorption of CO2 by the oceans and mapped out for the first time CO2 uptake for the entire North Atlantic. The process could lead to the development of an ‘early-warning system’ to notice any weakening of the ocean sinks – seen by some scientists as the first signal of more marked global climate change.
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February 4th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany, recently received the largest fleet of so-called gliders in Europe. These instruments can search the oceans like sailplanes up to a depth of 1000 meters. In doing so they only devour as much energy as a bike light. In a few years up to ten of these high-tech instruments will take measurements to better interpret many processes in the oceans. Presently researchers and technicians set up the devices for their first mission as a ’swarm’ in the tropical Atlantic
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February 3rd, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
The combining of low densities of oxygen and nutrients in the lower levels of the beaches of Alaska’s Prince William Sound is slowing down the aerobiotic biodegradation of oil remaining from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, according to researchers at Temple University.
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February 2nd, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
The growth in temperature in the Arctic Zone has already caused the sea-ice there to melt. According to research carried out by the University of Gothenburg, if the Arctic tundra also melts down, immense quantities of organic material will be channeled by the rivers straight into the Arctic Ocean, resulting in further discharges of carbon dioxide.
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February 1st, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
A project called Smart Embedded Sensor Systems (SESS) now allow for operators of offshore wind energy facilities to ascertain ‘the health’ of the wind turbines, while the operator is sitting on land. This is made conceivable by incorporating sensors into the wind turbine blades to discover changes and damage in the blade structure at an early stage before the blade breaks.
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January 29th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
The Denver-based corporation ProLogis has put together a Global Renewable Energy Group for overseeing the purchasing and development of new eco-friendly properties, the management of green installations, and providing management services for renewable energy initiatives, such as a strongly-driven mission to provide rooftop space for solar energy installations.
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January 28th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
Ecosystems of terminus lakes worldwide can benefit from a new arrangement being developed at the University of Nevada, Reno, to desalinize water utilizing a differentiated low-priced solar pond and proprietary membrane distilment arrangement powered by renewable energy.
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January 28th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
The solar panel production company IMEC has shown that it is possible and feasible to create solar-collecting surfaces using a spray-on method–a big breakthrough in the quest for the capability of making organic solar cells in mass production for a low cost. The solar collection cells created with the spray-on method demonstrate power conversion efficiencies of more than 3%, which is comparable to that of the organic solar cells produced by today’s spin coating of the organic layer followed up by vacuum evaporation of the top contact metal.
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January 28th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
While many countries came away from Copenhagen disappointed and with no clear greenhouse gas strategy, Germany has stated that they will stand by their goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020, despite the woolly promises of their Western allies.
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