Turning motion in the ocean into incredible wave energy
Sea Wave Energy Limited (SWEL) is a research and development company based in Cyprus and the U.K. They designed...
Floating platform "blowhole" can generate energy from waves
Wave Swell Energy, an Australian clean energy company, developed an extraordinary wave energy harvesting platform....
First-of-its-kind device prototype harnesses renewable energy from ocean waves
Our planet is a water world, covered with 70 percent oceans. For centuries, it’s been widely known that the high...
Oil rig off South Korea's coast to become a floating hotel that operates on tidal energy
As today's urban planners are struggling on how to integrate renewable energy into existing infrastructure, some...
New Japanese turbines harvest wave energy and protect coastlines from erosion
Surf's up! Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan are working to create...
This carbon nanotube yarn generates power when pulled
Power-producing materials are the stuff of wearable inventors' dreams. And scientists just created a yarn that...
Waterstudio's floating sea wall harvests blue energy from crashing water
Certain world leaders might be dragging their feet on addressingclimate change, but in the meantime, Koen Olthuis...
'Artificial blowhole' harvests power from ocean waves
Wave energy comes in many forms: at Inhabitat we've written about buoys, floating sea walls, and floating platforms....
The UK's first wave energy plant will produce enough energy for 6,000 homes
Australia-based company Carnegie Wave Energy (CWE) will bring their wave power and desalination technology to Wave...
Floating wave-powered desalination buoy cuts price of clean water production in half
"Typical desalination processes can be taxing on the environment, especially coastal communities," the team wrote...
Land Art Generator Initiative Santa Monica winners address California's energy needs and drought
Teams from all around the world competed in the competition, and the first place winners are based in Tokyo, Japan....
Despite Hawaii success, American wave energy lags behind rest of the world
Thanks to a Navy test site, America’s first wave-produced electricity was fed into Hawaii's power grid last...
Scotland kicks off world's first large-scale tidal energy project
Renewable energy advocates celebrate another victory this week as officials launched the world’s first large-scale...
Giant gleaming Orb deploys solar and wave energy to make clean water for California
"Now, more than ever, energy and water are intertwined. As California faces severe water shortages in the coming...
New wave energy generator taps into hard-to-reach low frequencies of the ocean
Wave power—energy harvested from ocean currents—is likely to be the next big thing in renewable energy generation,...
