The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea

Wired 13.06: The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea

….Craven’s system exploits the dramatic temperature difference between ocean water below 3,000 feet – perpetually just above freezing – and the much warmer water and air above it. That temperature gap can be harnessed to create a nearly unlimited supply of energy. Although the scientific concepts behind cold-water energy have been around for decades, Craven made them real when he founded the state-funded Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii in 1974 on Keahole Point, near Kona. Under Craven, the lab developed the process of using cold deep-ocean water and hot surface water to produce electricity. By the 1980s the Natural Energy Lab’s demonstration plant was generating net power, the world’s first through so-called ocean thermal energy conversion…..

Very interesting and exciting. I wish him and his company luck!

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