New research highlights hotspots where the tides are strong and the water is shallow.
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Environmental assessment methods involve trade-offs. Lean towards efficiency and risk missing crucial impacts. Wade too deep into fact finding and assessments become unfeasible.
Building offshore wind farms is complex and expensive. But with plenty of wind coming in from the sea, New Zealand could harness the renewable resource as it aims to decarbonise the energy sector.
A tidal energy expert explains why tidal power hasn’t delivered on its potential yet - and why that’s soon to change.
Subsidies could help kickstart cost cutting and innovation in this prohibitively expensive industry.
A proposed ‘tidal barrage’ could exploit the Mersey Estuary’s strong tides and narrow mouth.
New research finds birds like to forage for fish in the wake of a tidal power plant.
A tidal lagoon for Swansea could harness the power of the seas.
Currents of cautious optimism were flowing at the Wave and Tidal Energy conference in Belfast. Enthusiastic entrepreneurs and academics presented progress reports on the dazzling assortment of devices…
Enough renewable tidal energy could be harnessed from a strip of water off the coast of northern Scotland to power half of…
A frequent claim heard is that the UK is Europe’s windiest country. This is a partial truth; Scotland is the windiest country, whereas England is far from the windiest. To see the truth of this one need…
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Senior Research Associate, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
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