models of the Powerbuoy being used commercially, with more being developed by OPT. The first is the original and more common PB3 PowerBuoy and the second...
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company's PowerBuoy wave energy conversion technology is theoretically scalable to hundreds of megawatts and the generated energy from wave power can be...
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maritime navigation PowerBuoy – Marine power station United States Coast Pilot "buoy". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. "buoy". The American Heritage...
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with consultant engineers Stantec. The PowerBuoy is a point absorber WEC developed by US-based firm Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) since 1997. The rise...
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original on October 10, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2017. "PowerBuoy Technology — Ocean Power Technologies". Archived from the original on October 10, 2017...
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Littoral Expeditionary Autonomous PowerBuoy (LEAP) program for coastal security and maritime surveillance. Ocean Power Technologies has proposed a utility-scale...
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Cardinal mark (redirect from Cardinal buoy)
A cardinal mark is a sea mark (a buoy or other floating or fixed structure) commonly used in maritime pilotage to indicate the position of a hazard and...
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Power Technologies to test the generation of electric power from ocean waves using a "PowerBuoy" wave energy converter, one of the first wave power projects...
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A surface marker buoy, SMB, dive float or simply a blob is a buoy used by scuba divers, at the end of a line from the diver, intended to indicate the diver's...
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A spar buoy is a tall, thin buoy that floats upright in the water and is characterized by a small water plane area and a large mass. Because they tend...
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Sonobuoy (redirect from Sonar buoy)
A sonobuoy (a portmanteau of sonar and buoy) is a small expendable sonar buoy dropped from aircraft or ships for anti-submarine warfare or underwater acoustic...
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engineering design. Moored buoys have been in use since 1951, while drifting buoys have been used since 1979. Moored buoys are connected with the ocean...
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A Single buoy mooring (SrM) (also known as single-point mooring or SPM) is a loading buoy anchored offshore, that serves as a mooring point and interconnect...
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farm project to harness wave power, using the PB150 PowerBuoy has been completed by Ocean Power Technologies in Scotland and is under development off...
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Trinity Buoy Wharf is the site of a lighthouse, by the confluence of the River Thames and Bow Creek on the Leamouth Peninsula, Poplar. It lies within the...
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all controlled by radio signals. A battery-powered buoy which gradually replaced the older acetylene buoys, was introduced in 1935. Because of the technological...
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In the United States a longer duty cycle is used, 50% for battery-powered buoys (20 seconds on, 20 seconds off) and 75% for on-shore beacons. Ramarks...
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An OE Buoy or Ocean Energy Buoy is a floating wave power device that uses an Oscillating Water Column design. It is being developed by Irish company Ocean...
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jetty, featuring the former light vessel "Weser" and the steam engine powered buoy layer "Kapitän Meyer", an active museum ship. During the "Jade Weekend"...
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Red-class cutter (redirect from Red-class coastal buoy tender)
crews. Red Wood and Red Beech replaced two sister ships, steam-engine-powered buoy tenders, USCGC Hawthorne and USCGC Oak. The latter was the longest continuously...
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Desalination (redirect from Nuclear-powered desalination)
and wave power components. One such example is CETO, a wave power technology that desalinates seawater using submerged buoys. Wave-powered desalination...
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SNAP-7A, D and F was designed for marine applications such as lighthouses and buoys; at least six units were deployed in the mid-1960s, with names SNAP-7A through...
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Bigpond. Retrieved 10 December 2016. Homfray, Reece (3 January 2016). "Power buoyed by Jared Polec upping the ante at pre-season training". The Advertiser...
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former Coast Guard buoy tender which is now a museum ship located in New York City. Lilac is America's only surviving steam-powered buoy tender, and is listed...
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Keeper-class cutter (redirect from USCG coastal buoy tender)
The Keeper class of coastal buoy tenders consists of fourteen ships built for and operated by the United States Coast Guard. The ships were launched between...
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USCGC Red Wood (category Red-class coastal buoy tenders)
USCGC Red Wood (WLM-685) is a Red-class coastal buoy tender that was designed, built, owned, and operated by the United States Coast Guard. She was launched...
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and elastic (powered by rubber bands). Spear types come in a number of varieties including threaded, break-away and lined. Floats and buoys are common accessories...
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testing of the buoy has taken place at the Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University. In 2011, Neptune Wave Power received a grant...
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various artifacts and the borrowed power of the god residing in their city to seal and exorcise yōkai, though this power is only limited to the city itself...
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generate electricity. The buoy had a small output of 70-500 W and was stationed in Osaka Bay. Opened in 2001, this OWC power plant generates 500 kW with...
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