BY <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/author/BrianMerchant">BRIAN MERCHANT</a> |<a href="https://twitter.com/bcmerchant"> @bcmerchant</a> -<br><br>Eager to seek out energy alternatives in <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/fukushima-is-the-worst-its-been-in-two-years">the long ugly wake</a> of the nation's nuclear crisis at <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/article/gsearch?query=fukushima">Fukushima</a>, Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) was keen to examine its ocean energy prospects. So it turned to Toshiba and partner company IHI to launch a research program that will investigate current power by floating kite turbines in the Kuroshio Current. <br><br><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/japan-is-building-underwater-kites-to-harness-the-ocean-current-for-power">READ MORE ON MOTHERBOARD | VICE</a>
