Google's Eric Schmidt has helped to finance another sub being built by a US marine technology company called Doer Marine.
Former Sports and Culture Minister Kate Hoey and former Environment Minister John Gummer, were presenting a copy of the latest study, by British Marine Technology Limited, to the government in London.
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She also hoped to see further emphasis on science for underpinning decision making and more emphasis on the need to assist developing countries in terms of capacity building and transfer of marine technology.
Inspired by Garmin's avionics and marine technology, K2 turns the car dashboard into a digital cockpit that provides drivers a safe and intuitive way to stay connected and access all the functions they need while on the road.
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Mr Salmond, who is in the US for the annual Scotland Week celebration, said the announcement showed the country was "leading the way" in the development of marine renewables technology.
Though women have succeeded in breaking into many previously male-dominated fields in recent years, it is still unusual to find them in marine science and technology careers.
SembCorp - of which government investment arms will hold nearly 60% - will focus on infrastructure, marine engineering, information technology and "lifestyle" businesses.
Information and Communication Technology and Marine Education Extension Development.
Today, hundreds of floats deployed under the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), coordinated by UNESCO and largely supported by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), are used to measure ocean temperature, salinity and tsunami risk.
It needs offshore oil and gas companies to get involved with skills and technology they can transfer into marine power.
The inventors of the technology say it does not affect any other marine life and has no known harmful effects on the shark or the wearer.
If all goes as planned, several prototypes will be loosed on the Marine Corps by May of next year, and if this here technology adds a dash of omnipresence to the men and women in uniform, it could be deployed en masse shortly thereafter.
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"The RSEP program is a key initiative in the Marine Corps' expeditionary power systems portfolio for advanced power sources that embrace renewable energy systems as a means to reduce fossil fuel requirements, " said Mike Gallagher, program manager for expeditionary power systems at Marine Corps Systems Command, which will work with ONR to transition the technology to the field.
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Nic Jouault, a marine biologist with the Societe Jersiais disagreed with the economic benefits of an "experimental technology".
"As this is a new technology, we do not know its full environmental impacts, for example on large marine animals like seals and cetaceans, and seabed species and habitats located downstream of the proposal in the lough, " she said.
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The technology challenge is obvious: these blades need to survive for decades in a highly punishing marine environment.
Meanwhile Rolls-Royce has sought to insulate itself from the quirks of procurement by applying its design to other industries: 80% of the gas-turbine technology used in its best-selling jet engines is the same for the energy and marine sectors.
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