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Australia may have the honor of building the first tidal energy facility in the Southern Hemisphere. And the first step towards that alternative energy facility was taken by Charles Darwin University. CDU recently entered a memorandum of understanding with Tenax Energy to build a research center in Clarence Strait, which is about 60 kilometers north of the city of Darwin. The center is expected to host a pilot tidal energy plant that can generate 2 MW of energy.
San Diego company Uprise Energy is currently developing a new, easily-deployable, and customizable 50kW wind turbine. Packed with over 40 innovations courtesy the Company’s Energy Consumption System, the Uprise design will offer a competitive method for deriving electricity from wind energy.
North Africa is slowly getting in the renewable energy trend as Morocco invests on more solar energy technology. The government expects that by the year 2020, the country will get 14% of the power through the sun.
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With the rise of new energy sources, we look into the technologies emerging as ideal alternatives to current oil and gas resources.
Before anything, you may want look at the Standardization in the Petroleum Industry, and how these changes reflect the industry of today.
Next, you might want to read on the Largest Renewable Energy Sources Today, which will make you ask questions on why this particular source still hasn’t been tapped for its potential.
The answer however, comes from the post before this, on the report that economic realities prevent wind from potentially powering the globe.
Recent studies by two different US science teams suggest that the Earth has enough wind energy to powered the world. Unfortunately, the cost of building wind turbines and wind farms may outweigh the report’s findings.
Based on the research, wind energy can provide up to hundreds of trillions of watt power, which already ten times what we consume today. Potentially, wind energy can produce even up to 20 times current world consumption rates.
Despite wind energy providing to be an ideal, environmentally-sound alternative source, finances remain the biggest hurdle to any dramatic increase in the use of wind. The cost of building a system of turbines is too high, plus it would also take too much land.
Wind energy must also compete with coal and fossil fuels, which are often more preferred because they enjoy government subsidies. Natural gas is still cheaper compared to wind power. So despite the potential, the economic reality puts the reports in the backseat.
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