Preliminary study about methods for harvesting energy from marine resources

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Authors & editors	Novo, Riccardo [Author]
Publisher	The author
Year of publication	2015 July
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Medium	Digital
Edition	1
Topics	Energy & power > Water power
Tags	Renewable energy
Scope & content	Degree Course in Energy Engineering Abstract The greatest increase in demand for energy coming from newly industrialized countries where large- scale electricity generation will be required, the environmental requirements for zero or low CO2 emission sources and the need to invest in a sustainable energy mix, involve the development of new energy sources. Wave, tidal and marine current energy could be available as a future energy option and should be able to acquire a significant role in providing a sustainable, secure and safe solution to tackle European and global energy needs. Sun and wind are predictable, but not constant: photovoltaic panels and eolic turbines could barely support alone the peaks of the power request from the grid, and the contribution of hydroelectric seems to have already reached its limits in some European countries. For this reasons, in order to become independent from fossil fuels, it will be fundamental to harvest energy from the largest number of natural phenomena, especially ones that are predictale with high precision, as tides, and ones that are almost constant, as ocean currents.