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Verdant may refer to: Verdant Green, fictional undergraduate at Oxford University; Verdant Power, maker and installer of tidal power and hydroelectric systems; Verdant universities, an informal group of Australian universities founded in the 1960s and 1970s.
Verdant Power, Inc is a maker and installer of tidal power and hydroelectric systems. Their primary device is an underwater turbine, similar to a three-bladed wind turbine , that is designed to capture energy from tidal currents and (precipitation-driven) river currents.
The verdant universities, also referred to as the gumtree universities, are a group of Australian universities founded in the 1960s and 1970s. [1] These tertiary institutions were established in their respective state capitals, often next to native bushland (today’s nature reserves), and were usually centred around lush vegetative campuses, to which the term verdant refers.
The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France.
The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green contains portraits of Dr. Plumptre, vice-chancellor 1848–62, Dr. Bliss, registrar of the university, and 'the waiter at the Mitre,' while Mr. Bouncer reproduces many traits of the Rev. J. G. Wood. Verdant Green himself is a kind of undergraduate Samuel Pickwick, and the book is full of harmless fun. When we ...
The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green is a novel by Cuthbert Bede, a pen name of Edward Bradley (1827–1889). It covers the exploits of Verdant Green, a first-year student at Oxford University . Green is an undergraduate at the fictional Brazenface College .
Universities founded in the 1960s and 70s have been known informally as 'verdant' or 'gumtree' universities. [12] [13] These universities were established in their state capitals, often next to native bush land (now nature reserves), and have lush vegetative campuses. They are predominantly the second or third established university in their state.
The Verdant Power device is a three-bladed horizontal axis tidal turbine that sits on a triangular frame on the seabed, previously tested in New York’s East River. [27] In June 2024, Inyanga and Verdant Morlais announced they would collaborate in their projects at Morlais, to help unlock economies of scale and potentially reduce costs. [28]