Marine Energy Will Play a Key Role in Achieving Alaska’s Clean Energy Goals Palmer, Alaska, and Portland, Maine – ORPC, Inc., and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough announced a partnership today to test ORPC’s RivGen Power System at the Upper Cook Inlet industrial and commercial port facility of Port MacKenzie. The RivGen System, which harnesses clean, sustainable energy from free-flowing tidal and river currents, […]
An elderly Dillingham couple were located successfully after a short search south of Portage Creek on the Nushagak River this weekend. Troopers report they were notified that Dillingham residents Wassillie, 85, and Lena Kapotak, 84, were overdue from a skiff trip to Portage Creek and New Stuyahok from Dillingham on Sunday. The caller, their daughter, […]
A scientist once noticed a connection between the stress that tides inflict on the planet and the number of small earthquakes that happen in some areas when that pressure is greatest. She saw a pattern to these earthquakes leading up to great tsunamis. A graduate student is now looking for a similar signal in Alaska. […]
The U.S. Navy has committed to get half of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2020. One element of that strategy will be looking to extract energy from tides, currents and waves. The University of Washington is helping to reach that goal with an $8 million, four-year contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering […]
