Archive for the 'Ocean' Category
August 31st, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
Journalist Mac McClelland is reporting today that oil clean-up supervisors in the Gulf of Mexico have been informed by British Petroleum (NYSE:BP) that “a 200-foot-by-2-mile swath of oil is going to make landfall on Grand Isle in the next couple of days.”
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August 27th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
Backers of Scottish independence from the United Kingdom may be calling for the country’s fair share of profits from North Sea gas and oil revenues, but others are banking on its alternative energy future. Already home to Europe’s biggest onshore wind farm—the 322-megawatt Whitelee facility—the wind-swept, surf-pounded nation is hoping to use its water-drenched geography to ramp up renewable energy production.
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August 27th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
Portugal is doing more than its part to move away from traditional energy sources and cut greenhouse gases. Lead by the likes of EDP-Energias de Portugal SA (PINK:EDPFY), the world’s fourth-largest wind power company—with clean-energy operations stretching from Europe to North America—Portugal has become an example for many countries to follow.
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August 24th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
Although Vestas’ big second-quarter losses might point to the contrary, investor confidence in the cleantech sector is bullish. A report, compiled by IMAP, a global network of merger and acquisition advisory firms, shows that the number of mergers and acquisitions in the alternative energy sectors rose 54% last year. IMAP’s research shows that mergers and acquisitions in renewable energy’s three major sectors — solar power, wind energy, and biofuels — was worth US$20.4 billion last year.
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August 20th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
A Danish architectural firm is taking a well-known method of energy storage and applying it to renewable energy, turning unused land surrounded by water into Green Power Islands. The firm, Gottlieb Paludan, is setting up solar and wind farms on these islands then using the surrounding water as energy storage via pumped hydro.
Continue reading ‘Green Power Islands: A Solution for Renewable Energy Storage Problems?’
August 20th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
The country’s first utility-scale wave power project is moving forward in construction. The 1.5 megawatt wave energy park will generate enough energy to power 375 or more homes. The park will likely be located 2.5 miles off the Oregon coast near Reedsport, and use ten electricity-generating buoys. PB150 PowerBuoys will be used to generate power, and the first one has been constructed at Oregon IronWorks. Oregon’s governor approves of the project, and has said, “The manufacture of the first buoy has already created dozens of green-energy jobs in Oregon and when the 10-buoy wave power project is built, a whole new industry will be created to benefit our coastal communities.”
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August 17th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
Google threw its considerable weight behind California’s landmark climate change law this week, when it hosted an event where it argued an upcoming measure to kill the law would derail past and future gains made in cleantech job growth. Google hosted the event with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, featuring California Air Resources Board chairwoman Mary Nichols, venture capitalist guru Vinod Khosla, Google Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and PG&E senior vice president Tom Bottorff, who discussed the negative implications from Proposition 23, which would derail the state’s climate law, also known as AB 32.
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August 11th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa say that the Leeward side of Hawaiian Islands may be ideal for future ocean-based renewable energy plants that would use seawater from the oceans’ depths to drive massive heat engines and produce steady amounts of renewable energy.
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August 10th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
BP officials said they still might try to tap the Deepwater Horizon site, despite the fact that it was responsible for dumping over 4 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico before being sealed with cement last week. “There’s lots of oil and gas here,” Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles told reporters on Friday. “We’ll have to think about what to do with that at some point.”
Continue reading ‘BP Still Wants Oil Sealed Under Ruptured Gulf Well’
August 6th, 2010 by EBR_EBdaily
If there’s one thing that the state of Maine and the province of Nova Scotia share, it’s lots of coastline. So, in a positive demonstration of international renewable energy cooperation, the two governments will be working together to develop tidal energy and offshore wind power.
Continue reading ‘Tidal & Wind Energy in Maine and Nova Scotia’