Dear EarthTalk: You hear a lot about solar and wind energy, but what’s new in efforts to generate electricity from ocean waves? — Melanie Bernstein, New York, NY Wave power advocates cheered in ...

How can open ocean currents generate energy? Ocean currents contain kinetic energy that can be converted to electrical power using turbines. This is similar to offshore wind farms, or wind turbines ...

Spanish researchers have developed a new system that converts water current vibrations into renewable ...

Eco Wave Power’s technology is deployed near shore, attached to seawalls or jetties, where paddle-like devices are driven up and down by wave action, to generate electricity. Photo courtesy of Eco ...

Waves crash in Yaquina Bay near Newport during the king tides in December 2018. NEWPORT — At a moment when large offshore wind projects are encountering public resistance, a nascent ocean industry is ...

The world’s oceans may be vast, but they are getting crowded. Coastal areas are congested with cargo ships, international commercial fishing fleets, naval vessels, oil rigs and, soon, floating ...

Covering 71 per cent of the Earth’s surface, oceans are one of the world’s most valuable and yet largest untapped renewable ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Seven miles off the Oregon Coast near Newport, Oregon State ...

What if the answer to cleaner energy was right out on the waves? A new green energy system is set to change how we capture clean power, and it all starts with the ocean. French startup Seaturns has ...

Water is heavy, so if you think about it, a moving ocean wave has quite a bit of energy. Scientists have a new way to use triboelectric generators to harvest that power for oceangoing systems. (PDF) ...

An innovative proposal has just gained traction in LA: transforming the constant movement of the sea into clean, affordable electricity. This is the proposal for the city’s port, where the first wave ...