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HydroWing Inks Deal with PLN for Indonesia’s First Tidal Energy Plant

HydroWing, tidal energy division of Inyanga Marine Energy Group, has signed a binding agreement with PLN’s Subholdings to develop plans for plans for the first tidal current power plant in Indonesia.The 10 MW tidal energy project is planned to be located in East Nusa Tenggara in the Indonesian archipelago.The agreement follows the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in 2022 whereby HydroWing and state-owned national power company PLN (Perusahaan Listrik Negara) agreed to accelerate tidal energy in Indonesia through site identification, resource assessment and front-end engineering.The

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How Floating Solar Panels Could Power Future Population Hotspots

(30,000TWh per year).And while most of the world’s oceans experience storms, some regions at the Equator are relatively still and peaceful. So relatively inexpensive engineering structures could suffice to protect offshore floating solar panels.Our high-resolution global heat maps show the Indonesian archipelago and equatorial West Africa near Nigeria have the greatest potential for offshore floating solar arrays.Heatmap for offshore floating solar panels. Red areas are best, followed by yellow, green and dark blue. The grey lines show tropical storm tracks. Author-supplied, using OpenStreetMap base

Artist’s concept of Manta Ray UUV. Image courtesy DARPA

Back to the Future: Blended Wing Gliders Could Redefine Undersea Warfare

, this should come as no surprise. Chinese scientists have experimented with conventional gliders for many years, achieving several high-profile records for both depth and endurance. They have been deployed to both the South China Sea and Indian Ocean, with some washing up on the shores of the Indonesian archipelago, and given the dual-use nature of hydrographic data, China, like the United States, is surely deploying gliders not only for purposes of scientific research, but ASW as well. To that end, Chinese researchers have explored using conventional gliders as acoustic sensor nodes by equipping them

Map of basins encompassed by the NWS JumpStart package (Image: CGG)

Geoscience Packages Reveal APAC Prospectivity

paleogeography and petroleum systems and mitigates exploration risk for clients evaluating Triassic plays in this region, CGG said.The Banda Arc JumpStart package brings insights into this highly complex and challenging tectonic region at the collision zone between continental Australia and the Indonesian archipelago where historically little data was available. With new seismic data and interpretation from CGG’s 16,300 km BandaSeis 2D BroadSeis survey, the study addresses imaging challenges relating to the complex overburden and below the fold and thrust, the company said. It sheds new light on

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