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Mocean Energy’s Blue X wave energy machine has returned to dock after a successful five-month test period at sea.

Mocean Energy unveils £3.3m wave power prototype ahead of Orkney deployment The company plans to use the machine to power a subsea battery and unmanned underwater vessel Sign up to FREE email alerts from businessInsider - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Wave power company Mocean...

Wednesday, 21 Apr 21 Wave power specialists, Mocean Energy, have unveiled the company’s Blue X wave energy prototype which will take to the seas in Orkney, Scotland, in May 2021. Advertisement The 20 m long, 38 t wave machine has been fabricated wholly in Scotland and will be deployed at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC)’s Scapa Flow test site for sea trials initially, and then later deployed at EMEC’s large scale Billia Croo test site in summer 2021. In 2022, the wave pioneers pla...

Wave energy prototype unveiled in Fife as it prepares to take to the seas © Supplied by Mocean Energys Blue Yan Gunawardena, Cameron McNatt, Jon Clarke and Cinthia Medrado from Mocean Energy with Tim Hurst, managing director of Wave Energy Scotland and Arhontia Athanasiou (Mocean Energy) with the Blue X wave energy converter at Forth Ports Rosyth. A wave energy prototype has been unveiled in Fife ahead of sea trials next month. Power specialists Mocean Energy revealed its Blue X machine at a c...

The manufacture and testing programme is supported by £3.3m from Wave Energy Scotland (WES) through its Novel Wave Energy Converter programme. In a statement, WES managing director Tim Hurst said: “This is a significant milestone for Mocean Energy and for WES. The product of five years of the WES programme and three phases of development for the Mocean technology that has seen the Blue X progress from concept, through wave tank testing and now to a scaled, real sea demonstrator. “This dem...

Crestview Board OKs lengthy list of personnel contracts New Crestview Local Schools employees include speech/language pathologist Whitney Bollenbacher (left) and preschool/kindergarten intervention specialist Sydney Bowen.  Scott Truxell/Van Wert independent SCOTT TRUXELL/ independent writer CONVOY — Personnel matters were at the forefront of Monday night’s meeting of the Crestview Local Board of Education. Three-year administrative contracts were approved for High School...

Sydney mayor with property interests donated thousands to Liberals despite developer ban We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement A Sydney Liberal mayor with interests in property development has given thousands of dollars to the party despite a ban on developers making political donations. Strathfield mayor Antoine Doueihi, who declared he wasn’t a property developer in material lodged to the NSW Electoral...

Council watchdog refused to investigate pair now under ICAC probe We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement The local government watchdog refused to investigate allegations against two Georges River councillors, whose China trip became the subject of a corruption probe, because it did not appear that they had breached council standards. The councillors Con Hindi and Vince Badalati were last year revealed as being...

Advertisement The local government watchdog has accused a Sydney mayor of an abuse of power for using a council vote to quash allegedly defamatory comments about him and others on social media. Inner West mayor Darcy Byrne is fighting potential suspension over allegations he failed to declare a significant non-pecuniary interest during a motion to force an apology from two councillors regarding the Facebook posts he claimed painted him and other councillors as corrupt. Inner West mayor Darcy By...

PULASKI — The Pulaski County school system has created an equity plan to address the inequalities certain groups of students face. The plan — discussed at multiple school board meetings since November — is the result of data outlining the discipline numbers of certain groups of students as well as the increase in racism some students have been subjected to in the past few years, according to Superintendent Kevin Siers. Since taking over as superintendent in 2016, Siers said the c...