they are also marred by intermittency issues – where no wind or sunlight halts energy production for extended periods. Ocean currents, on the other hand, are almost perpetual and could supply ...

Hordes of bright blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures are washing up on beaches across California. As of Monday, thousands of the critters — called velella velella or by-the-wind sailors — have been ...

The velella have come ashore by the thousands on Central Coast beaches. This is the way the beach in Santa Barbara looked in ...

The Beaufort Gyre is a massive wind-driven circular ocean current in the Arctic Ocean ... Scientists think melting glaciers ...

However, it wasn't until the last couple of decades that these tools were adapted to surface ocean currents and wind, which bring an additional level of complexity. It's not like the equations of ...

Imagine that the wires to your house not only have to withstand high electrical current flow, weather and wind, but also salt ...

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Strandings of these jellyfish-like animals, sometimes called "by-the-wind sailors," usually mean spring is coming ...

offer vast potential for clean energy from renewable resources such as ocean currents and waves. However, marine renewable energy development is still in its early stages compared to wind and ...