October 23, 2008 – 10:22 am
Inhabitat.com reports:
The world’s first commercial wave farm went live at the end of September in Agucadoura, located off the coast of northern Portugal. Designed by Pelamis Wave Power, the farm employs three Wave Energy Converters - snakelike, semi-submerged devices that generate electricity with hydraulic rams driven by waves.
Look at the pictures they’re publishing in the [...]
October 15, 2008 – 12:14 pm
Alternative Energy Sources from mark Koh on VimeoDouble click to view in Full Screen.
We all know that oil isn’t endless. When all of it is dug up, we’ll be in a serious trouble — unless we develop reasonable sources of alternative energy. However, experts predict that we still have several decades before reaching “the point of no oil”.
This estimation is confronted, or rather supplemented, by the Peak Oil [...]
It’s Sunday again, which means it’s time for….
Today’s post is going to focus on biological energy — namely, “Bio Juice”. By using this term I refer to the chemical energy produced by organic tissues that can be converted into heat or directly into electricity.
Our body is an amazing machine. It is capable of miraculous doings [...]
Yesterday I began this unique series of posts about possible energy sources humankind could find itself using in the future. At the moment, these are all fascinating ideas, quite unfeasible, but theoretically valid. In the coming decades and centuries, what now seems like science fiction may be taken for granted by every toddler.
Energy comes in [...]
As we’re approaching the end of the first decade of the third millennium, many things which we had previously thought of as imaginary are already materializing before our eyes, such as commercial space tourism, men with wings, or the development of wireless electricity.
I want to dedicate this unique series of posts to the sorts of [...]
New theories concerning electricity being generated from the power of ocean tides and waves may be closer to being reality than previously thought. Harnessing the power of ocean waves has been thought about for years, but so far no practical type of device has been made that is strong enough to withstand the battering received [...]
Alternative energy sources, such as wind turbines have been in the news a lot lately. And one Indian company, Suzlon Ltd is now making a name for itself as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines that generate electric power. Suzlon’s story began in 1995 with nothing more than an idea to find [...]
April 18, 2007 – 12:31 pm
Polar bears, like the one pictured here, have now been put upon the endangered species list due to global warming. In fact, fears for their survival have become so real by prominent environmentalists, that it has now been predicted that these Arctic carnivores may become extinct in the wild by the year 2050. The Arctic [...]
March 25, 2007 – 12:37 pm
A little more than thirteen years back, A T.V. movie entitled: The Fire Next Time gave a chilling preview of what the world might be like in the year 2017, as a result of the consequences of global warming and severe depletion of the earth’s ozone layer. The movie, directed by Tom McLoughlin, depicted an [...]
