In the search for alternative energy, scientists have focused on the sun and the wind. There is also tremendous potential in harnessing the power of the ocean’s waves, but marine energy presents specific challenges that have made it a less promising resource. It’s a challenge to tune Wave Energy Converters (WECs) so that they are able to harvest the maximum …
Energy Expo at Hermanus High
Monday 23 July 2012 14h00 – 18h00 The Energy Expo has landed. Whale Coast Conservation’s travelling sustainable energy expo, funded by a grant from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, has reached Hermanus. This is the slickest, most entertaining, highly educational show in town. First it …
Stanford Sustainable Energy Road Show
On Wednesday 6 June Whale Coast Conservation took its Sustainable Energy Road Show to Stanford. The Community Hall was a great venue, which included four helpful local builders who volunteered the ‘muscle’ to unload the heavy equipment in the morning and to reload it at the end of the day. The event kicked off with 300 foundation phase learners from …
Only entropy comes easy – Anton Chekhov
WHALE COAST CONSERVATION’S SUSTAINABLE ENERGY EXPO The novelist CP Snow once likened a non-scientist who cannot describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics to a scientist who had not read a work by Shakespeare. So what exactly is the Second Law and why is it (and its buddy the First Law) so important and where does the dreaded Entropy fit into …