Additional Electrical Energy Provided By The Sea

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) was developed of by the French engineer Jacques D’Arsonval in 1881. However, at the time of this writing, the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii is home to the only functioning experimental OTEC manufacturing plant on the face of the earth. OTEC is a potential alternative energy source that needs to be funded and explored much more than it presently is.

The great hurdle to get over with OTEC delivery on a wide and practically useful level is price. It is difficult to get the costs down to a sensible level because of the processes so far utilized to drive OTEC. Ocean thermal electricity would be very clean burning and not add contaminants into the air. However, as it presently would need to be set up with our current technologies, OTEC facilities would have the capacity for disturbing and perhaps damaging the local environment.

There are three variations of OTEC.

“Closed Cycle OTEC” uses a low-boiling point liquid such as, for example, propane to operate as an intermediate fluid. The OTEC plant pumps the warm beach water into the reaction cell and boils the intermediate liquid. This results in the intermediate fluid’s vapor driving the turbine of the engine, which thus generates electricity.  The vapor is then cooled down by putting in cold sea water.

“Open Cycle OTEC” is not that different from closed cycling, with the exception that in the Open Cycle there is no intermediate fluid. The sea water itself is the driver of the turbine engine in this OTEC layout. Warm sea water found on the surface of the sea is turned into a low-pressure steam under the constraint of a vacuum. The low-pressure vapor is discharged in a focused area and it has the strength to drive the turbine. To cool down the vapor and make desalinated water for human intake, the deeper ocean’s cold waters are added in to the vapor after it has produced sufficient electricity.

“Hybrid Cycle OTEC” is really just a concept for the time being. It seeks to express the way that we could make maximum usage of the thermal energy of the ocean’s waters. There are actually two sub-theories to the theory of Hybrid Cycling. The first involves using a closed off cycling to generate electricity. This electricity is in turn used to create the vacuum environment needed for open cycling. The second component is the integration of two open cyclings  that twice the amount of desalinated potable water is created with just one open cycle.

In addition to being used for producing electricity, a closed cycle OTEC plant can be utilized for dealing with chemicals. OTEC plants, both open cycling and close cycling variations, are also able to be utilized for pumping up cold deep ocean water which can then be used for refrigerators and air conditioners. Furthermore, during the moderation period when the sea water is around the plant, the enclosed can be used for mariculture and aquaculture activities like fish farming. There is clearly quite a variety of products and services that we could derive from this alternative energy source.

In addition to alternative energy from the Beach, Zero Point Energy is an energy that can be taken from the air and space all around us. There are recent health related devices that have been designed from zero point energy. For more information try searching for words like amega , amega global or amegaglobal in your favorite search engine.

 

 

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