At the very edge of the grid, Port Graham and Nanwalek hope ocean wave energy can bring cheaper, more reliable electricity.

One thing you won’t hear in Long Beach is the sound of crashing surf.The 2.5-mile Long Beach Breakwater built parallel to the shore a mile and half out stops the ocean’s natural wave ...

Wave attenuation devices have found success in other parts of the country, including New Iberia, La., and Dauphin Island, Ala. Engineers from the Virginia-based Mid Atlantic Environmental credited ...

A breakwater built in the 1940s neutered this surf hub, where the father of wave riding, Duke Kahanamoku, held the first national surf contest in 1938. But Long Beach may be back in the curl again.

Wind storms can cause a great deal of damage to coastal areas, producing waves that erode the shoreline and destroy facilities such as marinas. A newly-proposed "floating forest" could help ...

Plenty of wave energy to be harvested close to shore. By Colin Barras. 5 May 2010 ... Now a reassessment suggests that waves closer to shore are not such puny prospects after all, ...

Wave Swell Energy's remarkable UniWave 200 is a sea platform that uses an artificial blowhole formation to create air pressure changes that drive a turbine and feed energy back to shore. After a ...

Oregon State University is constructing a wave energy testing facility off the Oregon Coast and, weather permitting, some of that work will be visible from shore this month.. PacWaveSouth will be ...

Waterstudio used the Hudson River to illustrate their new design’s function. “In a harbour on the Hudson river in New York the wave conditions are so strong that a sea wall must protect its boats.

The Corpus Christi Bay Shoreline Breakwater project plan calls for a 2,500-foot submerged breakwater off Ocean Drive to slow waves and prevent further erosion. Experts say the structure could also ...

Voith plans breakwater power plant A unit of German conglomerate Voith is to build the world's first commercial breakwater wave energy plant on Spain's Atlantic coast, based on a design tested ...

Removing part of the breakwater may be the cure for the ecosystems in Long Beach Harbor. One of proposals to improve plant and animal life in the bay would remove a third of the wall.