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09/06/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Wind farm construction may harm marine populations

Offshore wind farms might produce clean energy, but they do have negative effects on the environment. For one, their construction causes noise that might be disturbing, driving out, or even harming local wildlife. In a Science Daily article, European researchers have devised a computer model tool to determine the possible effects of such facilities on […]

04/24/2018 / By David Williams

Researchers discover ways to obtain energy from marine currents more efficiently

Now that the renewable energy revolution is in full swing, a lot of experts have begun working on maximizing existing sources of clean energy. To this end, a group of researchers from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has developed methods to generate energy from so-called marine currents in deep areas of the ocean while […]

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