
Hydroelectric art gallery will generate enough wave power to be 100% self-sustaining
London-based architect Margot Krasojevic has just unveiled a futuristic art gallery that runs on hydroelectric...

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...

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...

'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...

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,...

Australian wave energy project sets a new world record with 14,000 operating hours
Surfers at Sydney's Bondi Beach aren't the only Australians catching waves. The Perth-based Carnegie Wave Energy...

15 percent of Gibraltar's energy could soon come from wave power
Wave power hasn't scaled as successfully as solar or wind energy - however one British Overseas Territory could...

The world's first wave energy microgrid project is coming to Australia
Wave power offers huge promise as a source of clean energy, and now Australia’s Carnegie Wave Energy is taking...

45-Ton Azura generator harvests energy from Hawaii's waves
The United States has caught the perfect wave and may be surfing its way to a clean energy future. Azura, a prototype...

Perth's Carnegie Wave Energy project produces power AND fresh water from the motion of the ocean
The Carnegie Perth Wave Energy Project is rolling out its multimillion-dollar plans to prove that waves can generate...

United States Investing $10 Million in Wave Power Projects
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) just announced $10 million in funding to test two deep-water wave...

The SeaOrbiter Futuristic Marine Research Vessel Just Reached its CrowdFunding Goal, Set to Begin Construction
Now that the futuristicSeaOrbiter marine vessel has successfully completed its crowdfunding campaign, the project...

The SeaOrbiter: Futuristic Marine Research Vessel Launches CrowdFunding Campaign
A few years ago, there were rumors that a futuristic oceanographic marine vessel would be constructed with the...