Waves crash in Yaquina Bay near Newport during the king tides in December 2018. NEWPORT — At a moment when large offshore wind projects are encountering public resistance, a nascent ocean industry is ...

Combining wind turbines with wave, solar and tidal devices on shared platforms reduces construction costs, improves stability ...

The search is for new ways to harness renewable resources to supply our rising energy needs. The key question, however, is why ocean and sea waves haven't been used in carbon emission reduction ...

Ocean waves are a vast and steady source of renewable energy, but capturing their power efficiently has long frustrated ...

Now, Takahito Iida at the University of Osaka has proposed a new energy-harvesting technology that uses gyroscopic flywheel system that can be tuned to absorb energy efficiently over a broad range of ...

An innovative proposal has just gained traction in LA: transforming the constant movement of the sea into clean, affordable electricity. This is the proposal for the city’s port, where the first wave ...

Research from The University of Osaka highlights a new model of a gyroscopic wave energy converter. The device was shown to be capable of absorbing up to half of incoming wave energy across a wide ...

Scientists at the University of Osaka in Japan have turned to gyroscopes to efficiently ...

Irish company OceanEnergy has already tested its oscillating water column generators at significant scale in Hawaii, and it's just signed on to a four-year project to test, validate and commercialize ...

Off the Oregon coast just south of Newport, large rounded swells rocked The Discovery from side to side, the waves nearly tipping the boat sideways. Deep under the wobbling vessel, steel pipes ...

What do nine-time Grammy-winning billionaire Rihanna, stunning beaches, and a potential 50-megawatt wave-energy project have in common? Barbados! The island nation is deploying a unique type of wave ...