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Energies, 2022 In recent years, numerous projects for floating PV systems have been developed. These plants of various sizes have mainly been installed on enclosed lakes or basins characterised by the absence of external forcing related to waves and currents.
Alberto Ghigo +4 more
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Novel methods for wind speeds prediction across multiple locations
Scientific Reports, 2022 This article provides two unique methodologies that may be coupled to study the dependability of multidimensional nonlinear dynamic systems. First, the structural reliability approach is well suited for multidimensional environmental and structural ...
Oleg Gaidai +5 more
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Low-Cost Heaving Single-Buoy Wave-Energy Point Absorber Optimization for Sardinia West Coast
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 This work presents the Water Energy Point Absorber (WEPA), which is a heaving single-buoy point absorber optimized for a specific site off the west coast of Sardinia Island.
Marcello Rava +7 more
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Collision Detection for Underwater ROV Manipulator Systems
Sensors, 2018 Work-class ROVs equipped with robotic manipulators are extensively used for subsea intervention operations. Manipulators are teleoperated by human pilots relying on visual feedback from the worksite.
Satja Sivčev +5 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 In this investigation, a comprehensive study was conducted on a U-shaped sloshing tank, based on reversing the classical treatment of such devices as motion stabilizers and using them instead to improve the performance of wave energy converters.
Marco Fontana +5 more
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Marine Renewable Energies: Perspectives and Implications for Marine Ecosystems [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2013 Countries with coastlines may have valuable renewable energy resources in the form of tides, currents, waves, and offshorewind.The potential to gather energy from the sea has recently gained interest in several nations, so Marine Renewable Energy Installations (hereinafter MREIs) will likely become very diffuse in the near future and determine a ...
Azzellino A +3 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Many animals show sexually divergent foraging behaviours reflecting different physiological constraints or energetic needs. We used a bioenergetics approach to examine sex differences in foraging behaviour of the sexually monomorphic northern gannet.
Ashley Bennison +4 more
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Data in Brief, 2019 This data relates to a set of hydraulic laboratory experiments in which the flow around four cross-sections was investigated. Each cross section was examined at four angles of attack (0, 5, 10, 90°), seven velocities (0–0.7 m/s in 0.1 m/s steps) and two ...
Cian J. Desmond +2 more
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Examining the Potential of Marine Renewable Energy: A Net Energy Perspective
Sustainability, 2023 It is often claimed that marine renewable energy alone could meet the electricity demand of current and future human societies. However, such claims are based on highly uncertain estimations of the global potentials of marine renewable energy sources (including tidal, ocean currents, wave, offshore wind and salinity and thermal gradients), and do not ...
Roger Samsó +3 more
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Marine renewable energy in China: Current status and perspectives
Water Science and Engineering, 2014 Based on a general review of marine renewable energy in China, an assessment of the development status and amount of various marine renewable energy resources, including tidal energy, tidal current energy, wave energy, ocean thermal energy, and salinity ...
Yong-liang Zhang, Zheng Lin, Qiu-lin Liu
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