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
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
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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