A reader asked for my comment on this technology: turbines installed inside of municipal water pipes that converts some of that hydrokinetic energy into electricity. First, let’s start with the most obvious: this doesn’t apply to water that is flowing …
Tag: Hydrokinetics
New Approach To Ocean Wave Energy
In the course of a given month, I’m sure I contradict myself at least once or twice regarding the hope that ocean wave energy can come to play a prominent role in the unfolding world of renewables. Let’s put it this …
Novel Approach to Ocean Wave Energy
Here’s an approach to extracting the energy from ocean waves whose inventor asks my opinion. I love looking at new ideas. Here goes: Will this generate electricity? Certainly. Will it provide a viable approach to solving the problem of cost-effective …
Ocean Energy Conference Moving Back to Maine
I’m still a bit aghast that the entire two-day Ocean Energy conference is conducted annually without a single mention of OTEC (ocean thermal energy conversion). There are speakers promoting technologies in hydrokinetics and offshore wind, who, when pressed, admit that …
Concept in Ocean Current Energy
A gentleman from South Africa asked for my feedback on a new concept in hydrokinetics aimed at capturing energy from ocean currents. I hope a few readers will find my response interesting: Hi, and thanks very much for sharing this …
Brazilian Run-of-River Hydro Projects
Ironically, of all the renewable energy investment opportunities I like, the one that’s attracting the most interest over the last week or so is my collection of 20-or-so run-of-river hydrokinetics projects in Brazil—despite the World Cup. Apparently, the whole country’s …
Breakthrough Concepts in Clean Energy
As I’ve mentioned, I receive several new clean energy business concepts per week, mostly rooted in proven technology. The scientific mechanisms behind solar, wind, biomass, hydrokinetics and geothermal are all very well-established, and have been for a great period of …
Tagged with: biomass, Breakthrough Concepts in Clean Energy, geothermal, Hydrokinetics, solar energy, Wind Energy
Canada Has No Problem With Renewable Energy
According to a presentation i just watched here at the CleanTechLA conference, there are 65,000 government employees in Canada working on air pollution control. I’m not sure what to make of this. Largely due to their incredible hydro resources, their …
Hydrokinetics and Wind Energy Technologies
I just got off the phone with a fellow trying to raise investment capital for these guys. I bring this up not to ridicule anyone, but to make a point about the energy industry. The main technology featured here is …
Clean Energy "Solutions" Need To Be Economically Competitive
Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty (see Doty Windfuels) and I have been discussing the economic merits of novel approaches to hydrokinetics. Re: my statement that I believed my clean energy business opportunity CycloOcean will provide a reasonable return on investment, …
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