Ocean Turbines

Alternative Sustainable Energy Resources: Water Turbines Jill Dallmann Everglades University, Sarasota

Abstract
Through years of research and studies, renewable and sustainable energy resources have proven to help decrease greenhouse gases that are products of the main current world energy sources. With the rising cost and consumption of petroleum to rise in the future, the race to finding sustainable energy is heating up because the status quo is causing serious negative effects on the environment. It is unknown if these effects are reversible. Using the world’s water resources for energy has been around for centuries. Currently there are only a few different types of hydro power used to produce energy, and only 2 will be covered in this research: wave/current energy & tidal energy. Although both rely on the movement of the earth’s ocean, they use the kinetic energy produced to manipulate the movement into an energy source. keywords: sustainable, renewable, energy, resources

Table of contents Introduction ……………………………………………….……pg 4 Chapter 1 ……………………………………………………….pg 6 Background …………………………………………….pg 6 Introduction …………………………………………….pg 6 Definitions of Terms …………………………………...pg 6 Chapter 2 ……………………………………………………….pg 7 Literature Review ………………………………………pg 7 Wave/current energy …………………………...pg 8 Tidal Energy …………………………………... pg 9 Test Phase 1: Equipment ……………………………… pg 10 Vertical Axis …………………………………...pg 11 Horizontal Axis ……………………………….. pg 11 Test Phase 2 Performance ……………………………...pg 12 Test Phase 3 Information Sources …………………….. pg 14 Chapter 3 ……………………………………………………….pg 16 Other Renewable/Sustainable Energy sources …………pg 16 Solar …………………………………………….pg 16

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