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![]() It’s a good point, but I have one simple reason to give you as to why. Now I know what you’re probably thinking, why spend my money on Syntorial when there are countless sound design tutorials on YouTube. This transition from Syntorial to your synth of choice is one of my favorite aspects of the software, as it makes a lot more sense of how your own Synth works, as well as cementing the knowledge you have already learned during your time in Primer. These lesson packs are less practical and are a series of video tutorials, which in short, explain how to apply what you’ve learned in Primer to which Synth you plan on using inside your DAW. They guide you in transferring what you’ve just learned over to synths such as Massive, Serum, Minimoog Voyager, Cakewalk Z3ta+ 2, and Sylenth1. But no, additional lesson packs that come at no extra charge are made available to you. To add to the level of learning this software offers, at the end of every level, you will be given a relatively short multiple-choice quiz to build up your knowledge and technical terminology.Īfter 147 demos, 129 lessons, and 706 patches, you’d be forgiven for thinking the fun stops there. I would advise purchasing a MIDI keyboard along with Syntorial, as playing your own melody on the keyboard during the hidden patches is less tedious then constantly switching between it and the patch you’re recreating. There are 147 video demonstrations, 129 different lessons, and a whopping 706 patches (usually six patches after every demonstration) in which you have to replicate the patch which is played out to you in a simple melody.Īt the time, 706 patches felt there more than excessive (especially when you’re only one turn off a cutoff knob from getting it correct), but in hindsight, it really did help train my ear to understand the fundamentals of a synth, which really is what this software does so well. This way you learn what each individual parameter inside a synth does to a sound and why it affects the sound in that particular way.Īlong with this, the narrator who walks you through the program will define key terms for you throughout the process, making sense of a complicated subject one definition at a time. The first lesson concentrates solely on saw and pulse waveforms, with every lesson bringing in a new parameter which makes the learning process of using a synth a lot less daunting. Syntorial will give you step by step lessons on oscillators, frequency modulation, Unison, along with 61 other parameters of a synth. If you already understand the fundamentals of a synthesizer and what parameters affect a sound then this software isn’t for you. Variety of Courses – 9/10įrom the off, I should make it clear that this software is for beginners. The Syntorial platform looks as good as it teaches. Above all, you’re given access to the tools you need to get your head around sound design. It breaks down complex tasks into a series of easy and fun steps, while combining theory, the learning and the practical side of synthesis. Syntorial is one of the best foundational courses for anyone looking to truly master synthesis. Whether Syntorial is indeed the best way to learn synthesis and sound design.The teaching and whether it’s worth the money.The theory and practical side of Syntorial.In this review, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on The website advertises Syntorial as a ‘ video game-like training software, that will teach you how to program synth patches by ear‘.Ī program that could fill the void of both the Xbox I had just sold and the crippling lack of sound design knowledge that was eating away at my very existence, there was no reason not to give it a go. It caught my attention right away when my friend made me aware of its existence. ![]() I guess the snark is my anti-jealousy shield. No evidence of the grapefruit-size fur mat between your dog’s shoulder blades. Nary a picture of eating an entire can of Pringles over the sink or the ugly fat pants reserved for Sundays. I think I scroll more snarkily than IDLY when I study how wonderful everyone’s life is, read the embarrassing anniversary love letters to their spouses, see the incredible accomplishments, the beautiful houses, the clean and brushed dogs, the perfect just-thrown-together dinners. Follow me for more fun facts to know and share. Since mama, papa, dada are usually first and hence assigned to parents, NANA and NANNY (nonna) are next and assigned to secondary people. I’m of the opinion that NANA and NANNY are related in that they’re sounds that a baby babbles once it’s decided to give language a go. With a small change, you could do the same for RUMP - “Word that becomes its own synonym by putting a T at the front.” I think deep down, I thought POSIES were a specific kind of flower. Hey, YOLO, right? said no one ever in a Buddhist monastery. Talk about the semantics of those words doing double doodie. Everyone PARTIES DOWN until the party’s up.ĭespite my age, I can never look at the phrase “skid marks” without an internal snort. Speaking of being old, I guess I partied down back in the day. Adding reading glasses, MiraLAX, and new pill organizer to my grocery list. An added layer like today’s serves to milk this delicious part of my day further.ĪRLENE was a gimme, but I’m at that age where I catch myself parting the blinds and scowling at a truck I don’t recognize. I get my coffee placed just so, CNN in the background, go-to clipboard and pencil, remote to my left to mute all the *&%^ commercials. I savor my sacred morning puzzle time, a SERENE time that allows me to put off facing the drudgeries that are Life. Nice job, Christina and Jeff.įunny how we either like it or hate it when there’s a little explanatory note to read. Jeff Lin – I’m glad that the pieces’ shapes weren’t outlined in the little separate puzzle that just added to the enjoyment of figuring it all out. I thought it’d be pretty easy, but I ended up relying on the words themselves to suss out how they all fit in. I liked the exercise of considering the shapes and piecing them together. It was cool to examine the five shapes and figure out how they’d fit in the little jigsaw puzzle. I had the opposite reaction from our guest host and to surprise, surprise. I’m hurrying to post lest today’s feed become a hate-fest. Nevertheless, it's always helpful to have staples like TAEBO (59D: Exercise program since the 1990s), AERIES (113A: Homes for high fliers), ARIAS (100A: Songs that can be trilling?), and SNO (18D: _-Cat) to keep things flowing, AMIRITE (98D: "You agree?" (*nudge, nudge*)). I was also sure the classic palindrome ARAT (36D: "Was it _ I saw?" (classic palindrome)) was going to be that ACTUAL classic palindrome about "Ere I saw Elba" so when it wasn't I wound up having to spell it out by just counting the letters. I initially wasn't sure about OLD BETSY (54A: Rifle, in frontier lingo) being universal to all old timey rifles, but I'm willing to buy it. But there were def some speed traps in that method as well. The "instructions" themselves really didn't lend much to picking up the common phrases that the answers were but the fill was pretty easy to slowly pick those off with downs. So obviously, I did not like this puzzle, which is also not shocking as I have liked ZERO of the puzzles I've guest posted about. Finally, it treats the bottom puzzle as separate clues and answers that cannot be solved and are not actually words when solved down. To compound on this, the Across Lite version doesn't provide the outlined pieces in the bottom puzzle. Without the notepad, there was no other way to know that the entire bottom "jigsaw puzzle" isn't actually part of the puzzle and that the circled clues (as seen in my grid screenshot) are puzzle pieces that fit in it. Like Rex, I DESPISE the NOTEPAD which was required reading for this puzzle. In front of each clue we have added its number and position on the crossword puzzle for easier navigation.With all apologies to Malaika, but you are wrong and this puzzle is all the more proof of it. If you are done solving this clue take a look below to the other clues found on today's puzzle in case you may need help with any of them. This clue was last seen on NYTimes DecemPuzzle. LITTLE CHICKENS Times Crossword Clue Answer Two or more clue answers mean that the clue has appeared multiple times throughout the years. Both the main and the mini crosswords are published daily and published all the solutions of those puzzles for you. The NYTimes Crossword is a classic crossword puzzle. They make the wiring adapter linked above that makes it easy to tap into the trucks wiring back at bumper to get the brake, parking, and turn signal light wires from the truck without cutting and splicing into the factory harness. Of course you'll need to do the wiring for the brake controller in cab and physically mount it. I prefer to use 2 conductor 14 gauge wire in a heavy protective sheath. These 2 wires are needed because standard trucks did not have these wires in factory harness. One from the brake controller signal, and one for the constant 12V to charge the breakaway battery on trailer. You will need to run 2 additional wires from under dash to the back of truck. All these components come with wiring diagrams but won't have a diagram for your truck's wiring but if needed that is available here under the pinned topic "Ford Truck info and them some". You will need a brake controller installed in cab. You need to get the wire harness that goes with the connector or get a kit that has the wiring with a 7/4 connector. The back connector is somewhat universal. The connector you have listed is for modern vehicles that are already wired for 7 pin trailers. Otherwise you'll need to try to find the easy connect T for back at the bumper for stop/turn and running lights, assuming the AAW kit uses it and then run the extra wires forward for the trailer brakes. ![]() But that's me, and I havent found a source for direct crimp automotive fuse boxes yet. If I was doing it from scratch I would add a separate fuse box for the trailer and run a wire set from that to the 7/4 pin connector and to under the dash for a brake controller. The trucks that came with that wiring from the factory used some relays a splicing up front. The AAW kits dont have provisions for trailer wiring. Do I need the old style 'trailer brake control' module in the cab wiring? Sorry for my inept confusion!īut thanks for your patience!Yeah, sounds like you're in over your head a little. I like the 7- and 4-Pole Trailer Connector Socket w/ Mounting Bracket - Vehicle EndItem # HM40975,Īs that is what I want to have in the end product! But the actual connections to my '78 F250 wiring system is unclear to me. Okay gentlepersons, but how do I go about wiring it into my '78 F250 wiring harness? That looks like you would have a 7 blade already on the truck and plug this into it to have both a 4 flat pin & 7 blade at the rear at the same time?ĭave -The TEE harness to the 7 blade socket and the adapter from 7 blade to flat 4 To tell the truth I have never used the adapter but maybe my son has only last year when he used the truck to pull a Uhaul trailer. ![]() Now if I have the need to pull a flat 4 pin trailer I have adapter to go from the trucks 7 blade to flat 4 I keep behind the seat storage.īTW my 02 Durango has the factory tow package and only had the 7 blade connector out back but the factory also gave a 7 blade to flat 4 adapter in the glove box. I also ran 10 ga wire for trailer brakes & 12 volt power into the connector socket with fuses. I cut the flat 4 pin off and wired this into the 7 blade connector socket. On my 81 I use a trailer wiring harness Tee that fits between the frame rail harness and tail light harness. ![]() looks like you would have a 7 blade already on the truck and plug this into it to have both a 4 flat pin & 7 blade at the rear at the same time? Just buy one of these with both options in the same housing and wire it up. I was only hauling a couple of hundred pounds in addition to the trailer itself, so risked foregoing the need for trailer brakes but it obviously got me to thinking ahead to when I wire my F250!Īny experience/expertise/advice is appreciated, as I obviously know enough to be 'dangerous' about this stuff. So I improvised & bought a wiring connection kit with the 7 pin female side & a 4 pin plug on the other end with a couple of other wires which I suspect were for the trailer brakes which I did not use. Will I have to make my own adapter to house both connectors at the bumper? Is it possible to wire it for both, & what will I need to know/do? Obviously I am in way over my head with this idea which came to me last weekend when I borrowed a friend's trailer with it's 7 pin round connector & my vehicle only had a 4 pin straight connection. I have a new wiring system/set from American AutoWire. I want to wire my '78 F250 Ranger XLT for a 7 pin trailer connection, as well as a 4 pin straight connection if I can figure out how to do so. ![]() Inverse Trigonometric Functions FormulasĪns: Now these are simple numbers, so we can calculate the answer. ![]()
The first game Ratchet & Clank, released in 2002, was successful. ![]() Originally developed as a childlike version of the Star Wars character C-3PO, they later decided that Ratchet and Clank should work instead like a buddy cop film, and made Clank an equal to Ratchet. Along with this character they named Ratchet, they gave him a robotic companion, Clank. Artists sketched a number of concepts for this alien character, which was originally reptilian, but ended up as a new species they called a "Lombax", a name Price had come up with. This idea inspired the team since it would allow them to create new worlds and characters to develop. Now in 2001 and struggling with ideas, Chief Creative Officer Brian Hasting proposed the idea of "an alien that travels from planet to planet, collecting weapons and gadgets", an idea inspired by Spaceman Spiff from Calvin and Hobbes and by Marvin the Martian. One, called Monster Knight, never got past the prototyping stage, while a second, called Girl with a Stick and aimed to be a mashup of The Legend of Zelda and Tomb Raider series, had about six months of development work before Insomniac's CEO, Ted Price, decided to cancel it as "the team wasn't feeling it", according to director Brian Allgeier. With the PlayStation 2 recently announced in 2000, Insomniac began to prototype ideas for games on this new console. The series is noted for its inclusion of many exotic, unique and over-the-top weapons and gadgets, a concept that Insomniac Games has expanded into their other games.įollowing the development of Spyro: Year of the Dragon, the third installment of the Spyro series, Insomniac Games wanted to move into a new intellectual property, since the Spyro series was owned by Universal Interactive Studios. The games take place in a science fiction setting and follow the adventures of Ratchet and Clank – a feline humanoid mechanic of the Lombax race, and a diminutive, sentient Zoni "defective" robot – as they travel through the universe, saving it from evil forces that consistently threaten it. An animated feature film adaptation was released on April 29, 2016. ![]() Despite this however, the intellectual property is still owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The series was exclusive to Sony platforms until Rift Apart received a Windows port in 2023. Please note that Grand Prix characters are initially only available during their associated Grand Prix, but are added to the Pit Stop's permanent stock three months after their associated Grand Prix.Ratchet & Clank is a series of action-adventure platform and third-person shooter video games created and developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation consoles, such as PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5, with the exclusion of Size Matters and Secret Agent Clank, which were developed by High Impact Games for the PlayStation Portable. Visit the Other Items page for more information on these. In the Cost column of this table, NP refers to the amount of Nitro Points required to unlock a character, while WC refers to the amount of Wumpa Coins you need to purchase a character. Visit the Other Items page for more information on Wumpa Coins. In the How to Unlock column of this table, WP refers to the Wumpa Coins needed to purchase the character. ![]() Tropy's Time Trial Ghosts on the CTR and CNK tracks Nitros Oxide Edition / Defeat in Adventure Modeīeat all N. The Tigers won’t be able to defend their championship this year as the school self-imposed a postseason ban in the wake of program violations. Six SEC teams are ranked in this week’s AP Top 25, and three come in ranked in the Top 10 as Ole Miss moved up to No. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE/RESULTS/TV SCHEDULE Automatic Bid LOCATION America East (Bracket)Quarterfinals: March 4 Semifinals: March 7 Championship: 11 a.m. Auburn won the most recent SEC Tournament title back in 2019. In the SEC, Ole Miss, Alabama, and Texas A&M were the only three ranked teams to play - with all three taking care of business. 7 Penn State on the road in Happy Valley by the score of 20-18 in.whatever those nine overtimes were. The biggest upset was Illinois, who beat then No. ESPN NCAAF Home Scores Schedule Teams Standings Stats Rankings Daily Lines More From Pac-12 defections to SEC and Big Ten expansion, here is a comprehensive look at where each FBS team will be. However, there were some upsets - as five ranked teams fell to unranked teams during the week. Appalachian State, Arkansas, Arizona State, Baylor, Buffalo, California, Central Arkansas, Central Missouri, Charleston, Coastal Carolina, Colorado, Concordia-St.With the Missouri Tigers on their bye week and no ranked match ups in Week 8, Saturday was a pretty underwhelming slate in College Football, at least on paper.Arizona, Boise State, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Louisville, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Northern Iowa, Ole Miss, Oregon State, Purdue, SMU, Syracuse, TCU, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Tulane, UCLA, Western Michigan - 2 each. ![]() Georgia and Notre Dame tied for third with nine selections each, while Florida and Michigan each had eight with LSU checking in solo with seven picks.Ĭheck out the breakdown by conferences and teams below though all seven rounds of the 2021 NFL Draft. The record for most in a draft stands at 14, set by LSU in 2020 and OSU in 2004. Though it was not a record-setting day for the top teams, Alabama and Ohio State led the way among college programs with 10 selections each. The Big 12 was notable for not having a player picked in the first round, while the AAC set a record of its own with 19 players selected in the draft. ![]() The ACC made the biggest jump among conferences, going from 27 picks in the last draft to 42 this year. Those 65 picks this year put plenty of distance between the SEC and the Big Ten, which was once again second among conferences with 44 picks. This was the direction the SEC was going in even before Oklahoma and Texas joined the conference for 2024 expansion offered the excuse to do it once the two schools came in, rather than argue. He was named the conference’s freshman of the year on Wednesday for his defensive. Alabama defensive back Caleb Downs, who was also named to the First-Team All-SEC squad, finished fourth in the conference with 99 total tackles in his debut season. my favs Your selected leagues, players, teams, and more will appear inside the My Favs icon. all 16 teams will play in one division for spots in the conference title game. View the SEC NCAA college football conference Conference standings and conference rankings. Mississippi State is one SEC program that would benefit from the elimination of divisions and a more varied conference. The SEC, Georgia specifically, is back in the CFP. The SEC previously had 64 players chosen in the 2019 draft, falling just short of that number with 63 in 2020 only to surpass it by one in the 2021 NFL Draft. The SEC announced the conference’s All-Freshman football team for the 2023 season on Thursday. A complete breakdown of college football conference-by-conference expansion and realignment for 2023-24. Three opponents: Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina. SEC Realignment: Breaking The Conference Into These 4 Divisions Makes The Most Sense With The Addition Of Texas, Oklahoma. Below is a breakdown of how each conference performed and what was expected based on the odds for each bowl game. ![]() Given that a majority of college football's talent pool lies in the South, it shouldn't be a major surprise that the SEC led all conferences with 65 picks, setting a new all-time record for a single conference in the event. For the 15th straight year, the SEC was the king of the NFL Draft. To maintain some sense of national balance, conference participation is. ![]() Fourteen members of the Chicago mafia were indicted for a variety of crimes, including 18 murders and one attempted murder. ![]() recorded resulted in the 2007 "Operation Family Secrets" trial in Chicago. He details his role in the sting that brought down his father in a new memoir, Operation Family Secrets. admitted committing several murders "in great detail," says Frank Jr. So all this stuff he was talking about really wasn't forced."ĭuring the recorded conversations, Frank Sr. And the premise was that we were working on our relationship. So we didn't have any liquor in jail, so I got my father mad. "And my father taught me two ways to get a guy to talk: Either feed him a lot of liquor or get him mad. He agreed to wear a wire while talking to his father in the prison yard about the Calabrese family's alleged crimes. The reasoning, says Frank Jr., was that his father was dangerous and should never be a free man. I didn't want to lose any time, but I want to help keep my father locked up." wrote a letter to the FBI, offering to help bring down his father's murderous Chicago crime family. would have been a free man when he turned 70.īut then Frank Jr. The feds had enough evidence to keep him in jail for 118 months - meaning Frank Sr. was sent to prison along with his brother Nick and Frank Jr. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. attorney’s office’s daring prosecution of America’s most dangerous criminal organization.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Operation Family Secrets Author Frank Jr Calabrese, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman, Paul Pompian Operation Family Secrets intimately portrays how organized crime rots a family from the inside out while detailing Frank Jr.’s deadly prison-yard mission, the FBI’s landmark investigation, and the U. Frank Jr.’s cooperation with the FBI for virtually no monetary gain or special privileges helped create the government’s “Operation Family Secrets" campaign against the Chicago outfit, which reopened eighteen unsolved murders, implicated twelve La Cosa Nostra soldiers and two outfit bosses, and became one of the largest organized crime cases in U. makes a secret deal with prosecutors, and for six months-unmonitored and unprotected-he wears a wire as his father recounts decades of hideous crimes. But he needs to keep his father behind bars in order to regain control of his life and save his family. makes the life-changing decision to go straight. When Frank Jr., his father, and Uncle Nick are convicted on racketeering violations, “Junior" and “Senior" are sent to the same federal penitentiary in Michigan. The Calabrese Crew’s colossal earnings and extreme ruthlessness made them both a dreaded criminal gang and the object of an intense FBi inquiry. ![]() As members of the outfit, they plotted the slaying of a fellow gangster, committed the bombing murder of a trucking executive, the gangland execution of two mobsters-whose burial in an Indiana cornfield was reenacted in Martin Scorsese’s blockbuster film Casino-and numerous other hits. reveals for the first time the outfit’s “made" ceremony and describes being put to work alongside his father and uncle in loan sharking, gambling, labor racketeering, and extortion. In Operation Family Secrets, Frank Calabrese, Jr. The chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago helped bring down the last great American crime syndicate: the one-hundred-year-old Chicago Outfit. Although he wrote many of the works that earned him the greatest recognition during the early years of his career, Abe continued writing fiction throughout his life. After winning an important literary prize for his 1950 story "Akai Mayu" (translated as "Red Cocoon," 1972), with its hallucinatory vision of a man without a home, Abe wrote an impressive number of novels. All three served as means for him to explore and explicate his sometimes gnomic vision of reality, yet Abe is best known, both in Japan and abroad, as a novelist and short-story writer. He soon became known as a fiction writer, a playwright and director, and a writer of film scenarios. By 1950 Abe had become an enthusiastic participant in the avant-garde movement of postwar Japan.įrom that time Abe's career moved in three directions. Hanada Kiyoteru, the intellectual leader of the group, encouraged Abe's interests in European surrealism, which led him in turn to develop Marxist sympathies. In the early postwar years he joined many important literary groups, one of which included writers who were associated with the journal Kindai Bungaku (Modern Literature) and were attempting to reassert the claims of art and humanism in the difficult years that followed defeat. Encouraged by his early literary successes, Abe soon abandoned any further interest in a medical career. His first works, some published at his own expense, appeared in 1948, the same year he graduated from Tokyo University with his M.D. Perhaps because of a new atmosphere of free expression that blossomed shortly after the war ended in 1945, Abe began to experiment in writing both poetry and fiction. Although their works read quite differently and are composed with aims at variance from those of Abe, these writers resemble each other in the cool dissection that characterizes their similar authorial stances. The objectivity of Abe's style resembles that of other writers-such as the Japanese Meiji writer and intellectual Mori Ōgai or the Russian playwright and writer Anton Chekhov-who were also trained in medicine. Yet Abe's medical training may have developed his abilities to describe with precision and detachment both his settings and the emotions of his characters. However, caught up in nihilistic attitudes that were beginning to spread among intellectuals as defeat and the end of the war seemed ever nearer, he took no pleasure in preparing for a medical career, for he had lost trust in society. Abe remained in Manchuria until 1942, when he returned to Tokyo at age eighteen to enter Tokyo University and study medicine. ![]() Although Abe was born in Tokyo, his father shortly thereafter took the family to Manchuria and served as a doctor in Mukden. In this sense he was perhaps in closer touch with a rapidly urbanizing society than were many authors whose writings were shaped by an implicit commitment to a bucolic vision of a Japan that had largely disappeared by the end of the American occupation in the early 1950s.Ībe's upbringing-especially that he was brought up outside Japan and was given early training as a physician-no doubt strongly shaped his attitudes. Japan as presented in his works is an urban, not a rural, landscape-one filled with buildings, not flowering trees. Abe's vision appeared to take nothing from the past. ![]() At first examination Abe's work seems removed from the kinds of aesthetic vision and strategies employed by older writers such as Kawabata Yasunari or Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, who were still active after the war and creatively and selectively used themes and attitudes familiar from more traditional literature. Specially built seagoing vessels can also capture the energy of offshore waves. The rise and fall of the float stretches and relaxes the hose, which pressurizes the water, and, in turn, rotates a turbine. Other offshore devices use hoses connected to floats that ride the waves. Sophisticated mechanisms-like the Salter Duck-use the bobbing motion of the waves to power a pump that creates electricity. Offshore systems are situated in deep water, typically of more than 40 meters (131 feet). Wave energy can be converted into electricity through both offshore and onshore systems. Cold water passing through a condenser, containing the vaporized working fluid, turns the vapor back into a liquid, which is then recycled through the system. The expanding vapor drives a turbine attached to a generator, which produces electricity. In a closed-cycle system, heat transferred from the warm surface water causes a working fluid to turn to vapor. There are three types of ocean thermal energy conversion processes: closed-cycle, open-cycle, and hybrid-cycle. ![]() Ocean Thermal Energy ConversionĪn ocean thermal energy conversion system is made up of several key components including: This section provides information on ocean energy systems and reviews the three main types of ocean thermal energy conversion processes. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Ocean Energy Technology Basics. Further general information is available from the U.S. This overview is intended to provide specific details for Federal Agencies considering ocean energy as part of a major construction project. The International Energy Agency has a group dedicated to Ocean Energy Systems which has further information and analyses on various types of ocean energy. The construction costs are high and lengthen payback periods. A tidal dam might be identical to a river dam, but it will produce less than half the amount of electricity. Although tides are more predictable than wind energy or solar power, it is still intermittent and expensive. Tidal dams create many of the same environmental concerns as damming rivers, such as restricting fish migration and causing a buildup of silt. The Rance Tidal Power Station is located on the Rance River in France, and was the first tidal power station starting operation in 1966. Some of the oldest ocean energy technologies use tidal power, but there are currently no tidal power plants in the United States. Wave technology is still being developed, but will eventually become competitive with wind and solar. Construction of the nation's first wave-energy farm began off the Oregon coast in 2010, with completion expected by 2012. ![]() ![]() There are a few areas where wave power may prove desirable, but wave energy is intermittent and variable. The world's first commercial wave energy plant, at 0.5 megawatts (MW) of power, was developed in Scotland. The first known patent to use energy from ocean waves was filed in 1799 in Paris, France. Wave power devices extract energy directly from the surface motion of ocean waves or from pressure fluctuations below the surface. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a paper on this, titled Technical Readiness of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). The main attraction is that it produces power day and night, and it does not fluctuate like solar or wind. However, it requires costly infrastructure to deliver cold water from the depths, and it doesn't produce much power compared to the amount of equipment required. It provides air-conditioning for buildings, produces base load electrical energy, and has significant potential to provide clean, cost-effective electricity for the future. Ocean thermal energy conversion is a resource for onshore and near-shore mariculture operations. The laboratory has become a leading test facility for this type of technology. Hawaii is the best location in the United States for ocean thermal energy conversion due to the warm surface water, high electricity costs, and access to very deep, cold water. The United States became involved in 1974, establishing the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA). Ocean thermal energy conversion attempts began in the 1880s, but the first plant was not built until 1930 in Cuba. ![]() Tidal energy is a form of hydropower that derives its energy from the motion of large bodies of water that make up the tides. A process called ocean thermal energy conversion generates electricity using the difference in temperature between the warm surface of the ocean and the cold ocean depths. The ocean covers more than 70% of the earth's surface and has the ability to produce two types of energy: thermal energy from the sun's heat, and mechanical energy from the waves and tides. |
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