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gIt may be called visionary; yet at a time when the drain on the fuel resources of the world is increasing every year and power users are turning to all natural sources of energy - water, tidal and even wind power - for partial relief, it is interesting to discover an entirely new source, practically inexhaustible, if exploited with judgment, since it is solar energy.h
Excerpt from "Steam Power from the Ocean in the Tropics" by R.H. Andrews, March 1st 1927.
With near ZERO carbon emissions, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a renewable energy power plant which can support base load power. OTEC converts thermal energy to electricity utilizing the temperature difference between warm surface seawater (20Ž-30Ž) and cold deep seawater (4Ž-6Ž). Alongside electricity generation, technologies which can be easily incorporated include water production, aquaculture systems, lithium recovery, hydrogen production, and others. The GEC fully integrated system illustrated below, I-OTECS, is an environmentally friendly technology to solve the problems of energy, water and food production in our world today.
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