Nuclear power has grown faster over the past three decades than renewable alternative energy sources, such as solar, wave, wind and geothermal power.
"We're confident of those structures, although it's still very dangerous any time you're getting wave overwash like that, and wind and wave continue to press against those walls, " said Maj.
It was shot through and through and tattered, but it never ceased to wave in the wind.
It was also expected to expand other renewable energies such as wind and wave power.
The Highlands and Islands has been seen as a prime location for wind, wave and tidal power projects.
But how much more could it be when offshore wind, wave and tidal turbines are in place and generating power?
Environmentalists fret that new nuclear plants will come at the expense of eco-friendly technologies such as wind and wave power.
The research by the University of Liverpool found that the seabirds fed in nine areas earmarked for tidal, wind or wave power developments.
The pump storage hydro scheme is designed to "soak up" excess power generated by wind and wave farms, using it to pump water up to a reservoir.
Wind, wave, tidal, and solar energies tossed us about like toys for a week, wreaking havoc and laying low our homes, roads, communications, power sources, and commerce.
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The ship's power is set to come from solar, wind and wave power with biofuel in case nature doesn't cooperate -- when the vessel isn't adrift via ocean currents.
It has not, for all the hype, taken in any great measure to alternatives such as ethanol and other biofuels or to renewables such as solar, wind and wave power.
In mid-July, the department's Mineral Management Services, which controls the mineral rights on federal lands, asserted its jurisdiction over renewable energy projects--wind, wave, solar and tidal energy--on federal waters in the Outer Continental Shelf.
"Constantly we are monitoring weather forecasts to keep in line with the sun, plotting our route, examining wind, wave and current predictions, communicating with other vessels on the satellite phone, updating our blog and logging our positions, " he said.
The mast was installed in April to measure wind speed, wave height and sea currents.
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Renewable technologies, such as wind power, wave power and biomass power, are a tiny part of the energy mix, and are more expensive than nuclear power.
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult centre will focus on offshore wind, tidal and wave power.
In a moment of inspiration, Garvey realized that air could be compressed using a wind turbine or a wave-powered device.
He is also offering operating subsidies through the renewable-obligations mechanism, which will pay tidal generators three times as much as the subsidy paid to onshore wind farms, and wave generators five times as much.
Over the next year or two, offshore wind power pioneers will begin rolling out a fleet of 5 to 8 megawatt wind turbines for the coming wave of offshore developments.
The second field slanted up to the highway, and the wind moved uphill across it, wave after wave.
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The electricity generators operate like wind turbines but with blades driven by tidal wave action.
Ambitious plans for offshore renewable energy projects are crowding the waters--floating wind farms, tidal-power turbines and wave-energy barges--all expected in the next decade.
They are a pretty basic technology, they are a one hit, while if we develop lagoons, if we develop other forms of tidal and wave and other ways of extracting the energy from the water and the wind then I think we've got a great potential export trade.
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