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Lockheed Martin attempts to harvest energy from sea

By Richard Brill

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 02, 2011

~~<p>Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) as a means for generating electricity has been around for a long time. French physicist Jacques Arsene d'Arsonval proposed it in 1881. One of his students, Georges Claude, built a 22-kilowatt experimental system at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, in 1930. Five years later Claude built another plant aboard a 10,000-ton cargo ship moored off Brazil.</p>
<p>Both were destroyed by storms, and neither was able to produce more energy than required to run the open-cycle system.</p>
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Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) as a means for generating electricity has been around for a long time. French physicist Jacques Arsene d'Arsonval proposed it in 1881. One of his students, Georges Claude, built a 22-kilowatt experimental system at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, in 1930. Five years later Claude built another plant aboard a 10,000-ton cargo ship moored off Brazil.

Both were destroyed by storms, and neither was able to produce more energy than required to run the open-cycle system. Login for more...



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