Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
Artificial bays on the beach can effectively be used generate power from wave energy. Tom Denniss, an oceanographer in Australia, has developed a wave reflector that would produce energy at cheaper rate than those generated by coal-fired power plants. The reflector consists of a large parabolic bay that focuses a …
EXACTLY 16 months after the UK government stopped aiding research into wave power on the grounds that it had no commercial future, the world's first wave-powered electricity generator has been launched off the shore of Scotland. Promising mass production of power at a wondrously cheap rate, the new electricity generator …
Using a material known as "piezoelectric plastic", a US company is trying to convert the kinetic energy of waves into electricity. Piezoelectric plastic generates an electric charge when physically strained. The company plans to laminate several sheets together, hanging them from ocean rafts to anchors on the sea floor. The …
