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Colin Bennett

Plumbing the oceans could bring limitless clean energy - tech - 19 November 2008 - New ... - 0 views

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thermal ocean

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  • Colin Bennett on 20 Nov 08
     
    Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), a clean, renewable energy source that has the potential to free many economies from their dependence on oil.
Energy Net

Technology Review: Energy from Waves - 0 views

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otec wave ocean technology

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    The ocean's waves have enough energy to provide two trillion watts of electricity, according to the Department of Energy's office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Extracting that enormous resource of power, however, has proved to be a herculean challenge.
Colin Bennett

Could sea power solve the energy crisis? - Telegraph - 0 views

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wave ocean OTEC renewables technology future

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  • The French inventor Georges Claude is largely forgotten today; if he is remembered at all, it is as the creator of the neon lamp. Yet one of his projects from the 1920s could resolve the global energy crisis - by harnessing the power of the oceans.
Hans De Keulenaer

The Century-Old Renewable You've Never Heard Of - Eos - 1 views

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  • President Jimmy Carter signed a bill calling for 10,000 megawatts of OTEC capacity to be up and running by 1999. Then oil prices stabilized, administrations changed, and other than a few demonstration projects, nothing happened.
  • “When people actually have to build stuff that’s got to survive in the ocean and be insured, costs double. Insurance premiums triple,” he said. “And all of a sudden, what looked good when you announced it, you can’t actually get finance to build.”
  • Binger added that many small island nations still haven’t recovered from the debt they incurred during the oil crisis that began in 1979.
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