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The worldwide potential of electric power generation from marine tidal currents, waves, or offshore winds is enormous. The high load factor resulting from the fluid properties and the predictable resource characteristics make tidal and wave energy resources attractive and advantageous for power generation and advantageous when compared to other renewable energies. The technologies are just beginning to reach technical and economic viability to make them potential commercial power sources in the near future. While only a few small projects currently exist, the technology is advancing rapidly and has huge potential for generating bulk power. Moreover, international treaties related to climate control and dwindling fossil fuel resources have encouraged us to harness energy sustainably from such marine renewable sources. Several demonstrative projects have been scheduled to capture tidal and wave energies. A number of these projects have now reached a relatively mature stage and are close to completion. However, very little is known to the academic world about these technologies beyond the basics of their energy conversion principles. While research emphasis is more towards hydrodynamics and turbine design, very limited activities are witnessed in power conversion interface, control, and power quality aspects. Regarding this emerging and promising area of research, this book aims to present recent results, serving to promote successful marine renewable energies integration to the grid or to standalone microgrids.

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If one uses Facebook, Facetime, Skype, Netflix, or any application of the internet internationally, a submarine cable is involved. Fibre optic cables bind the world together and computer server farms, maintained by major telecom and content companies, allow vast amounts of data to be stored and retrieved from the cloud. Not often appreciated is the fact that these server locations worldwide are connected by submarine fibre optic cables. In this sense, the cloud is beneath the sea. While submarine communication cables have been in steady use since 1850, their preeminent place in the modern world has never been as dominant and personal as now. Recently, calls have mounted in the context of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) for centralized control of submarine cables and for express or de facto diminishment of the freedoms related to them via the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea, that have served the world’s peoples for so long. In International Submarine Cables and Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction , Douglas R. Burnett and Lionel Carter examine the time proven importance of the existing international treaties, the largely peer-reviewed science on the environmental interaction of submarine cables with high seas environments, and the current submarine cable issues in the context of the BBNJ debates.

Cables, Submarine --- Cables, Submarine. --- Marine biodiversity. --- Law of the sea. --- Marine sediments. --- Sediments (Geology) --- Sedimentation and deposition. --- Ocean currents. --- Oceanography. --- Water rights (International law) --- Law and legislation. --- International law --- Oceanography, Physical --- Oceanology --- Physical oceanography --- Thalassography --- Earth sciences --- Marine sciences --- Ocean --- Currents, Oceanic --- Ocean circulation --- Water currents --- Ocean surface topography --- Deposition and sedimentation --- Sedimentary processes --- Physical geology --- Geology --- Physical geography --- Sedimentary rocks --- Sedimentation and deposition --- Marine sediments --- Slackwater deposits --- Bottom deposits (Oceanography) --- Bottom sediments (Oceanography) --- Deep-sea deposits --- Deposits, Deep-sea --- Marine deposits --- Sediments, Marine --- Ocean bottom --- Submarine geology --- High seas, Jurisdiction over --- Marine law --- Ocean law --- Sea, Law of the --- Maritime law --- Territorial waters --- Diversity, Marine biological --- Marine biological diversity --- Aquatic biodiversity --- Ocean cables --- Submarine cables --- Submarine telegraph --- Telegraph, Submarine --- Communication and traffic --- Electric cables --- Telecommunication --- Telegraph --- Law and legislation --- Laws and regulations --- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982 December 10) --- Law of the sea --- Marine biodiversity conservation --- Biodiversity. --- Communications. --- Internet. --- Marine environment protection. --- Sustainable development. --- Communication, International. --- Marine resources