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OTEC, or Ocean Thermal Electric Conversion, is a technique to
generate energy from the temperature difference between warm
surface water and the cold depths. Unfortunately there is little
practical experience with the technology, and it scales down very
poorly. Its a promising technology for the future, perhaps for
governments soon, but not at all applicable to small ventures
now. Some projects have treated OTEC as practically free energy
for ocean cities, when it is quite expensive indeed. We discuss
it further in our Infrastructure -
Power section.
Source: http://seastead.org/commented/paper/why.html#OTEC_or_Ocean_Thermal_Electric_Conversion_is_a_tec
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[Fri Jan 7 21:36:14 EST 2005-6] John Jorgensen:
Run a spell check to catch things like "and ot scales".
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