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Wave power: how it works | SmartPlanet - 0 views

  • What is wave power? Wave power is renewable energy derived from ocean waves. It is the kinetic energy of wind interacting with water and creating waves
  • Wave energy is generated by the wind
  • The best wave energy environments are along western coastlines because the largest, most consistent winds come from the west,
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  • How does wave power work? Most of the energy comes from the rising and falling water level and requires exposure to the waves
  • There might never be a dominant technology for harnessing this power
  • because of the differences in potential wave energy sites throughout the world.
  • all ocean energy resources, including wave power, would combine to create energy 800 times more powerful than wind
  • Currently, wind is our biggest renewable energy source
  • What are the benefits of wave power? Because wave devices tend to be on the surface and don’t have propellers, as tidal power technologies do, some believe they will create less environmental damage than other renewable energy technologies,
  • There are advantages compared to wind in that the devices are smaller and don’t have the visual profile that wind turbines have.”
westkea00

An electrical approach to wave energy conversion - 0 views

  • Motions in nature, for example ocean waves, can play a significant role in tomorrow's electricity production, but the constructions require adaptations to its media. Engineers planning hydropower plants have always taken natural conditions, such as fall height, speed of flow, and geometry, as basic design parameters and constraints in the design
  • Extensive simulations of the wave energy concept are presented, along with results from the experimental setup of a multisided permanent magnet linear generator. The prototype is designed through systematic electromagnetic field calculations. The experimental results are used for the verification of measurements in the design process of future full-scale direct wave energy converters. The present paper, describes the energy conversion concept from a system perspective, and also discusses the economical and some environmental considerations for the project.
kirkpatrickcon99

Why Is a Solar Panel in New Jersey 15 Times More Valuable Than One in Arizona? - 0 views

  • The combined health, environmental, and climate benefits of a solar panel in New Jersey are fifteen times greater than those associated with one in Arizona, and a wind turbine in West Virginia displaces twice as much carbon dioxide as the same turbine would in California.
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Biofuels - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation - 0 views

  • y growing plants can be achieved by producing biofuels from
  • Balance between the carbon released by biofuels and carbon uptake by growing plants can be achieved by producing biofuels from feedstocks (raw materials) that come from managed forests or sustainably cultivated crops.
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    Balance between the carbon released by biofuels and carbon uptake by growing plants can be achieved by producing biofuels from feedstocks (raw materials) that come from managed forests or sustainably cultivated crops.
demboskiemm00

Renewable Energy Sources in the United States - 0 views

  • Solar technologies produce few negative environmental impacts during collector operation.
dylan purner

HowStuffWorks "Photovolatic Cells: Converting Photons to Electrons" - 0 views

  • Photovoltaic cells are made of special materials called semiconductors such as silicon, which is currently used most commonly. Basically, when light strikes the cell, a certain portion of it is absorbed within the semiconductor material. This means that the energy of the absorbed light is transferred to the semiconductor. The energy knocks electrons loose, allowing them to flow freely.
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Why is solar energy good - 0 views

  • solar energy is environmentally safe and does not contribute to pollution, acid rain, global warming, or smog. it is very dependable and lasts as long as the sun does-a couple billion years.
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