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London-based architect Margot Krasojevic has just unveiled a futuristic art gallery that runs on hydroelectric power. Slated for the coastal Russian region of Sochi, the Hydroelectric Sculpture Gallery will harness enough...

Our planet is a water world, covered with 70 percent oceans. For centuries, it’s been widely known that the high seas can generate energy, if harnessed appropriately. With today’s renewables market rapidly expanding,...

Surf's up! Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan are working to create special turbines that harvest the renewable energy of waves while simultaneously protecting coastlines from...

Power-producing materials are the stuff of wearable inventors' dreams. And scientists just created a yarn that generates electricity with a simple tug. The yarn, comprised of carbon nanotubes and submerged in an electrolyte...

Wave energy comes in many forms: at Inhabitat we've written about buoys, floating sea walls, and floating platforms. But Australia-based Wave Swell Energy (WSE) takes a novel approach to harvesting power from ocean waves...

Wave power—energy harvested from ocean currents—is likely to be the next big thing in renewable energy generation, so researchers are spending quite a bit of time on new technologies to take advantage of the sustainable...

Surfers at Sydney's Bondi Beach aren't the only Australians catching waves. The Perth-based Carnegie Wave Energy Project just set a world record by completing 14,000 cumulative operating hours. Located off Garden Island,...

Wave power is a form of alternative energy that hasn't yet scaled up as successfully as solar or wind. In the future, though, one British Overseas Territory could receive 15 percent of their electricity from wave power. Gibraltar...

A new report published by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change shows that 57.7% of Scotland's electric consumption came from renewable sources in 2015, exceeding the country's 50% target for the year. This milestone...

Wave power offers huge promise as a source of clean energy, and now Australia’s Carnegie Wave Energy is taking the technology to bold new places with the world’s first wave-integrated renewable energy microgrid project...

The United States has caught the perfect wave and may be surfing its way to a clean energy future. Azura, a prototype wave energy generator and the first of its kind in the United States, is online and producing electricity...

The Carnegie Perth Wave Energy Project is rolling out its multimillion-dollar plans to prove that waves not only have power but can generate it for the electric grid on land...

A new WWF-backed study by consultancy giant DNV-GL shows that Scotland can go 100% fossil fuel-free by the year 2030, and that it could reduce carbon intensity from 271 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour to 50g CO2/kwh...

A new WWF-backed study by consultancy giant DNV-GL shows a fossil fuel-free Scotland is technically achievable by the year 2030 and could reduce carbon intensity from 271 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour to 50g CO2/kwh...