Planktos. No, it’s not where Aquaman was born. Planktos Science is a San Francisco-based company that wants to capture and sequester carbon dioxide in the ocean with iron filings and plankton. An earlier incarnation of the company was dissolved after disagreements among the management team. It also failed to gather funds.
Russ George, however, is [...]
Marine Current Turbines, a leading British tidal energy company, has completed the installation of its first full-scale tidal turbine. The 1.2 MW, 1,000 ton SeaGen turbine was deployed in early April, and the company has worked for the past six weeks on securing the monopile structure to the seafloor. MCT has estimated the SeaGen turbine [...]
If Ocean Power Technologies hits a production target, and no one’s around to see it go in the water, did it really happen? OPT announced today it has signed a joint venture agreement with Griffin Energy, an Australian power company. The JV agreement calls for OPT to build a 10 MW turnkey wave park, “with [...]
Those little guys pictured in the photo play a big role in keeping greenhouse emissions down, and their importance could increase in the coming years.
Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and Caltech have identified a set of microorganisms that oxidize methane that seeps from reservoirs deep in the ocean. They [...]
Greentech has become big business for a variety of reasons: energy is a $6 trillion a year market, national security concerns pushing governments into creating sustainable domestic power supplies, and, of course, the need to develop non-polluting energy sources to stem global warming and climate change. This last reason is regarded as a factor uniting [...]
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond announced a $20 million prize for commercial-scale ocean power projects today at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C. The prize is aimed at building Scotland’s ocean power generation capacity by attracting commercially viable technologies to Scottish waters. But how much capacity can $20 million really buy? PelamisWave, a Scottish [...]
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Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk is serious about getting beyond sports cars. At a press conference with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla co-founder and chairman Elon ...
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