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German utility firm RWE npower renewables has withdrawn its backing for the world’s largest “wave farm”, throwing the future of the 4MW facility in doubt, the Sunday Herald can reveal. Part of this was triggered by financial problems within RWE npower but still, the sea is an unforgiving place and also, well, with all the [...] Pacific Gas & Electric is abandoning pilot projects for wave power off the California coast. It cited lack of funding and high costs of the projects as the primary reasons. The projects were tiny in size, 2 MW and 5 MW, quite unlike current plans by Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom (formerly S.F. Mayor) to [...] SQUID, which looks somewhat reminiscent of its namesake, has an inflatable absorber similar to a large balloon which fills with sea water. Sitting just under the surface, the absorber is moved by passing waves and the energy from this motion drives a generator to produce electricity. AlbaTERN, the company developing it, hopes to have [...] A government thinktank has predicted that the British marine energy sector could be worth £76bn to the economy and support 68,000 jobs by 2050. They say total capacity by 2050 could be a substantial 27.5 GW. [...] Pelamis Wave Power (Newsom is currently Mayor of San Francisco and will become California Lt. Gov. as soon as the S.F. City Council appoints a replacement for him.) Gavin Newsom says wave power eight miles off the coast of San Francisco is economically feasible and can be done at a cost less than solar [...] We can do that here too. We have the resources and know-how. All we need is the consensus and determination to do it. Then we would have copious amounts of clean energy produced with our own resources within our own borders. Scotland already gets 29% of its energy from renewables. By 2020 it will be [...] Current S.F. Mayor Gavin Newson (who will be Lt. Gov next month) says wave power eight miles off the coast of S.F. is economically feasible and can be done at a cost comparable to that of solar power. Interestingly, he first favored tidal power but “The tidal was bad news. … The more we [...] This more efficient design for wave power from Columbia Power Technogies can generate from up and down as well as sideways motions. Plus it’s made of fiberglass which lasts longer in the ocean with much less maintenance. A test will start in 2012. Someday, someone will figure out how to do wave power on [...] The Oyster from Aquamarine Power generates power from waves. Scientists and developers plan a testing site between Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket for offshore wind, tidal, and wave energy systems. The site would have berths for equipment, allow sharing of information, and be compliant with all regulations – something which will save projects large [...] Giant energy company Metso with its 27 million employees worldwide, is working on extremely innovative underwater wave energy tech with wild and crazy start-up AW-Energy: the inventor of the groundbreaking Waveroller. Next summer, Portugal (getting 45% renewable power by the end of this year) is hosting the Waveroller’s full scale 300 kilowatt demonstration off [...] |  | ||||
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