Technology And The Sea - Fascination Marine Technology
Marine technology is not about ships and shipbuilding, but about the technology that is used to explore the oceans, protect them and use them sustainably.Please consider the harsh conditions the marine technology is exposed to in the sea. The sea is often a very inaccessible habitat with strong currents and aggressive salt water. The deeper you get, the higher the water pressure becomes, people and equipment have to be able to withstand this. Wind and waves make the work even more difficult, many jobs can only be done up to a certain wave height. Sometimes you also have to pay attention to the tides. And then there are remote and climatically demanding regions like the Arctic or the Antarctic.After all, we know surprisingly little about what lives in the sea. Researchers assume that there are a good 1 million higher organisms and 1 billion species of microbes. The sea is an almost inexhaustible source of natural substances. However, 95% of them are unexplored, in the deep sea even 99%. Marine tech is of great importance. In this podcast we'll have a closer look at it. Bärbel Fening is a German podcaster and a tv-journalist, who specializes in marine issues: https://www.baerbel-fening.de This podcast is produced in cooperation with the German Association for Marine Technology:https://www.maritime-technik.de
Technology And The Sea - Fascination Marine Technology
Offshore Wind Energy by Karina Würtz, Offshore Wind Energy Foundation
This podcast episode is all about the electricity that is generated from the wind on our seas - in offshore wind farms. Without marine technology, it wouldn't work. Every single wind turbine is anchored in the seabed.
1500 turbines are located between 15 and 150 km from the German coast with an installed capacity of 8 gigawatts. Offshore wind energy is highly topical - not only because of the current energy crisis. The German government wants to rapidly increase the expansion.
Karina Würtz, Managing Director of the Offshore Wind Energy Foundation, talks about what this means and how quickly the expansion can be achieved in this podcast episode.
www.offshore-stiftung.de,
www.maritime-technik.de
www.baerbel-fening.de
