{"id":2069,"date":"2019-07-14T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2019-07-14T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:11:07","slug":"tidal-energy-element-project-backed-by-improved-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/tidal-energy\/tidal-energy-element-project-backed-by-improved-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidal Energy ELEMENT Project Backed by Improved AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Nova<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For years, one of the worst parts of human\nconsumption has come from our desire and our need for more energy. It has\nbecome the most common part of the way that we live as a species: everything is\npowered. However, the development of renewable energy sources \u2013 including tidal\nenergy \u2013 has become commonplace in many ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s for this reason that many people are\nbacking the ELEMENT project, one of the most ambitious tidal energy projects,\nfor success. Interestingly, it claims to be able to slash the lifetime cost of\nenergy by as much as 17%. Like all good projects, though, it needs backing and\nit has to be supported to ensure that it can do the job that was intended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being led by Scottish-based Nova\nInnovation, this is going to help cut energy costs massively over a lifetime.\nIt\u2019s been given a backing of \u20ac5m and will start in 2019. It will start to use\nAI technology that is used in the wind energy industry and put that into tidal\nturbines. This would then adapt and adjust to the needs of the ride and improve\nperformance massively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim, then, is to make sure that the\nwind sector and the tidal sector can work hand-in-hand in terms of making\nsustainable energy. By allowing the turbines to be able to adapt to the wildly\nunique conditions of the tides, this could be essential in improving energy\nusage and minimising the long-term cost of our consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nova<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A\nsolution to make tidal energy even better?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Speaking about the project was Nova\nInnovation CEO Simon Forrest. Forrest spoke about the importance of the project,\nsaying to Energy Live News<\/a><\/em>: \u201cReliable tidal energy generation is now a\nreality. It is no longer a matter of \u2018if\u2019 but \u2018when\u2019 the technology becomes\nmainstream. The sector has taken great strides forward in recent years and our\ndrive is now to reduce cost to compete with conventional generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFortunately for our industry,\nmany cost reduction techniques have already been demonstrated in established\nrenewable technologies, such as offshore wind. By capturing this knowledge, we\ncan reduce the costs of tidal energy more quickly by piggybacking on their\ntechnological advances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the EU\u2019s Horizon\n2020 project, this could be a major part of innovation in the clean energy\nsector. As one of our most important innovations and improvements that we can\nmake, projects like this could be essential to stopping the impact of man-made\nclimate change being quite so extensive. The more renewables that we can use,\nthe better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years, one of the worst parts of human consumption has come from our desire and our need for more energy. It has become the most common part of the way that we live as a species: everything is powered. However, the development of renewable energy sources \u2013 including tidal energy \u2013 has become commonplace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidal-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}