Cisco to buy Tidal Software for $105 million

Cisco Systems says it has agreed to buy privately held Tidal Software for $105 million, a step the company said will help bolster its strategy for creating more efficient data storage and networks.

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Giant rubber sea snakes could harness the plentiful clean power off Britain's coasts within five years, according to the inventors of a new type of wave-energy generator.

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Since the internet loves lists, here are our best-to-worst energy options if we want to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce air pollution, according to Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z Jacobson: 1) Wind power, 2)  …

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What I want Obama to do his first week in office...

Along with several other commenters I saw here, I think that the president should be able to multi-task. I disagreed somewhat with the priorities and the wording of others, so here's my shopping list for his first week or two: close Guantanamo -- this should be relatively easy.

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An underwater turbine that generates electricity from tidal streams was plugged into the UK's national grid today. It marks the first time a commercial-scale underwater turbine has fed power into the network and the start of a new source of renewable energy for the UK.

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Marine Current Turbines has today confirmed that installation of its SeaGen commercial tidal energy system will commence during the week of August 20th in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough.

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Twice a day, in accordance with nature's clock, the Atlantic Ocean pours through the Bay of Fundy with a controlled fury that is unmatched anywhere in the world.

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BioPower Systems is developing a new ocean energy technology in Australia that will use bionics to mimic natural systems in order to produce energy. Both bioSTREAM and bioWAVE technologies use biomimicry, which refers to the adaptation of biological traits in engineered systems.

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The Tidal Power Research Revival

Tidal power is undergoing a stage of research and development similar to wind farm development 15 years ago and solar cell development a couple of decades back.

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This editorial from Kuro5hin.org covered the US's energy problems and the possible solutions. Great information on today's nuclear power.

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"The decision to explore the source of one of the most frightening bores in Brazil and in the world was fundamental.

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