SkySails’ first cargo ship, with a huge computer-controlled kite, was recently flagged off by Eva Luise Koehler, wife of German President Horst Koehler.

Section: Renewable Energy Test & Measurement
Publication Date: July 2008

Sensor technology is big business and with energy prices on the rise it is easy to understand why researchers are quenching industry’s thirst for energy-harvesting solutions. With this in mind, more and more energy sources are being explored – piezoelectric energy-harvesting applications using vibrations from motion and wind have long been in development, and now, as large-scale hydro-generation looks to move downstream, out of our rivers and our estuaries and further out into our open seas, it is hardly surprising that researchers are examining the energy-harvesting potential of another stage of the water cycle – rainfall.

Section: Renewable Energy Test & Measurement
Publication Date: July 2008 Renewable energy is a wide-ranging subject, with both large-scale and micro-generation schemes in operation and under continuous development.
Section: Renewable Energy
Publication Date: January 2008