Dover is a school with nearly 1, 500 students, and a football coach, Ken Osbon, who has won one state title and more than 100 games with the Green Wave.

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Those LEDs were then set to that light up red or green to illuminate the EM wave peaks and valleys.

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That would force power companies to take more of their supply from green energy sources, like wave and tidal power.

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Ken: Analysts say the settlement over the robo signing scandal has given the banks a green light to start a wave of foreclosures that will make an already oversupplied housing market worse.

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The San Francisco social entrepreneurs aim to create an industry certification standard for environmentally friendly surfboards to give surfers, from pros to weekend wave warriors, a scientifically sound green choice.

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Tracing the green movement in America, from the first wave, led by John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, through the second wave in the 1960s and 1970s, he says the time is right for a third wave.

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Maf Smith, chief executive of green energy trade body Scottish Renewables welcomed the move and said that with the right support wave and tidal power could meet 10% of Scotland's electricity needs by 2020.

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But making green off blue power soon proved to be so much California dreaming as plans for West Coast wave energy arrays sank under opposition from surfers, fishermen and local residents.

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Before the financial crash, the great green tech boom unleashed a rush of startups and speculators staking claims on federal waters to build massive wave farms, while in Europe governments, including Portugal and Scotland, placed big bets on wave energy.

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