A recent IBM press release on an ocean noise monitoring project caught the attention of Forbes and other press this week because of a bit of an ironic twist: Our lack of precaution in developing earlier energy technologies – fossil fuel and nuclear, has sensitized us to potential problems in advancing new sustainable technologies like [...]
Read More» Posted by mstocker | 2 commentsOne of the hot topics at the recent International Quiet Ocean Experiment in Paris was the noise impacts of offshore wind farms. It seems that while the American Oilmen are furiously trying to carve up the Arctic for fossil fuel, the Europeans are rapidly developing wind power. Much of this is happening in the North [...]
Read More» Posted by mstocker | 2 commentsThe snap noise of a snapping shrimp can be 220dB (re 1µPa) – as loud as a point-blank muzzle crack of a 30 caliber rifle.
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