As the early surf pioneers began to observe, and as advances in more recent wave forecasting has confirmed, there are a few ...

February 10, 2009 Bundling together the benefits of two eco-friendly forms of power generation, Scottish company Green Ocean Energy has developed a wave power machine that attaches to an offshore wind ...

Surf’s up: map showing the change in extreme (90th percentile) wave height between 1985-2018. Red indicates increasing values, whereas blue indicates decreases. (Courtesy: University of Melbourne) ...

The waves you see at the shoreline are actually wind waves and are the sum of many components that were generated by the wind at a distant site. These components travel at different speeds, depending ...

While Europe’s offshore wind sector has taken off, interest is resurging in marine energy. The UK’s Crown Estate took the major step this March, for example, of awarding leasing rights to 10 wave ...

Since the 1950s, scientists have known that the Sun emits a stream of particles in a vast wind, carrying away an Earth’s worth of mass every 150 years. This wind of protons sweeps by comets and ...

Surf's WAY up. Crew and Officers of NOAA Ship FAIRWEATHER Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Over the last three decades, the seas became stormier and the roughest waves got bigger, according to a ...

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In addition to renewable energy projects featuring solar, wind and energy storage, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday approved looking at the potential of wave energy, offshore ...

Gray clouds arched over Great Falls on a recent Friday, with a brilliant dome of blue sky visible underneath it. It was a “chinook arch,” an unusual-looking cloud formation common to mountain areas ...