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Verdant experimenting on wave energy effect on marnie life
Verdant co-founder and President Trey Taylor said the six-year-old company will spend 18 months studying the effects on fish before putting in another four turbines. The project will cost more than $10 million, including $2 million on fish monitoring equipment, Taylor said. - Read More
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Ecological Impacts of wave energy
Engineers have been working on designs for several years and are starting to place test buoys off the coast. Now, ecologists are starting to question the potential effects of wave energy parks on the ocean environment and its inhabitants. Mechanical buoys that convert waves into electricity could affect a litany of species, including sand-burrowing worms, migrating whales, sea otters, sea birds and even sharks. - Read More
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Wave energy difficult to evaluate for sector analysts
Ocean wave power has attracted growing interest from investors and power utilities looking for the next long-term play in renewable energy after the rise in wind power. But sector analysts say initial public offerings for wave and tidal power are harder to price than wind power, because wave firms cannot give exact figures on the benefits of scale and few of their technologies are up and working yet - Read More
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