Is this not just another one of those alternative energy boondoggles?
Like other alternative energy sources, how environmentally friendly is this source actually? Or how cheap and clean is it? In particular, when it scaled up!
The company advertises this new source of energy as a solution for tropical islands to reduce their dependence on expensive fossil fuels. This might work.
"In an average day, tropical oceans absorb about 278 petawatt-hours of solar energy. Harvesting just 1/4000th of that energy would supply the entire world's daily electricity – and ocean thermal energy conversion provides a possible method. ...
Harvesting energy from the temperature differential between the warm surface and the cold deep ocean is certainly not a new idea – indeed, it was first trialed 142 years ago in 1881, and a 22-kilowatt OTEC plant was built in Cuba in 1930. ..."
Global OTEC's clean energy barge, Dominique, harvests power from the temperature differential between deep water and surface water
Six Countries With Active Policies On Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)
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