This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Lisa Stiffler on Nov 29 ...

Dresser-Rand and Orecon have signed a memorandum of understanding to optimise the chamber and turbine design for their multi-resonant chamber (MRC) wave energy conversion device. 15 May 2009 – Dresser ...

Wave power might eventually be to Scotland what solar power is to California. In yet another step forward for the Scottish wave-power industry, Aquamarine Power recently released a new version of its ...

Ships can become mobile wave energy converters, say Chinese researchers, using "heaving oscillators" that draw power from heaving, rolling and pitching movements as they move through the sea, while ...

The UK developer of a pioneering wave energy device has been given a shot in the arm by landing £3.2 million ($4 million) in European Union funding to build a large-scale version of the nascent ...

The world’s oceans could play a role in supporting the clean energy grids of the future. But that possibility hinges on the successful rollout of tidal stream and wave technology. Tidal stream energy ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Construction crews working a few miles offshore from the port of Newport, Ore., are building the final portions of a sprawling $80 million test facility designed to develop a new form of ...

Converting the power of water into energy is nothing new. Using ocean waves is. The power of the ocean could soon be used to power homes in the U.S. as scientists prepare to test an untapped form of ...

Floating blue paddles dance on the waves that lap a dock in the Port of Los Angeles, silently converting the power of the sea into electricity. Floating blue paddles dance on the waves that lap a dock ...