Underwater Energy Links:

Current Power Companies/Research Groups:
Marine Current Turbines, UK. Large scale ocean turbines.
Verdant Power, Virginia. This company is installing turbines in the East River, NYC.
The Engineering Business Ltd, UK. Developers of the Stingray.
SMD Hydrovision, UK. Self-aligning marine current turbines.
Woodshed Technologies, Australia. Tidal current power.
Tidal Hydraulic Generators Ltd, UK. Tidal current power- turbine arrays.
Vashon-Maury Island Renewable Energy Potential Assessment, Washington. Includes analysis of tidal power generation including cost estimates.
Blue Energy, Canada. Tidal Current power. Also see Powerline Magazine Article.

Wave Power Companies/Research Groups:
Wavegen, UK. Developers of LIMPET, a fixed Oscillating Water Column (OWC) device.
Ocean Power Delivery, UK. Developers of Pelamis, a relative motion device.
ORECon, UK. Developers of a free OWC device.
Ocean Power Technologies, Princeton. Developers of a Resonant Linear Generator.
Ocean WaveMaster Limited (OWL), UK. Developers a device that uses Wave Pressure Differentials and Turbines.
Archimedes Wave Swing, Netherlands. Developers of an inverted OWC device.
Daedalus, Greece. Developers of a fixed OWC device.
Salter Duck, Uk. Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.
TAPCHAN, Norway/Java. A Tapered Channel Device.
JAMSTEC- Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan. Developers of the Mighty Whale, a floating OWC device.

Current/Wave Power Resources:
Tides and Tidal Currents, background info.
Ocean Currents, more background info.
Map of Tide Prediction Locations.
Characterization of Ocean Surface Currents.
Available Wave Power Map (from Ocean Power Delivery Ltd).
Alternative Energy Sources Newsletter (focusing on Wave and Tidal Power Technolgies including cost and efficiency predictions)
2006 Ocean Energy Conference, San Diego. June 21-23,2006.

Other Power Sources:
Wind Power Fact Sheet, from the University of Alaska.
Renewable Energy and Electricity, comparison of various alterantive energies (including info on wind turbine anchoring).

General Energy Resources:
Electricity Prices, a DOE website.
Energy Numbers, a UWashington website (PDF).
NationMaster.com, a good site for finding information about energy usage (comparative statistics) around the world.


Group Memebers and Email Addresses:
Prof. Alex Techet, ahtechet@mit.edu
Prof. Jose Oscar Mur-Miranda, jomm@olin.edu
Tadd Truscott, truscott@mit.edu
Erik Dawe,edawe@whoi.edu
Johanna Mathieu, jmathieu@alum.mit.edu


Group Files:
White Paper Rough Draft #5
White Paper Rough Draft #4
White Paper Rough Draft #3
White Paper Rough Draft #2 (.doc file this way we can all work on it easily for now)
White Paper Rough Draft #1 (latex file)
White Paper Rough Draft #1 (PDF)
Wave Power Overview (Word document)
Preliminary Outline (Word document)
Preliminary Outline (PDF)
White Paper Outline (Word document)
White Paper Oultine (PDF)


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