Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC): Reducing dependency on oil. The long-term benefits of any alternative energy source could at first seem self-evident. The finite oil supply and increasing energy demands of the world necessitate a shift away from oil as the world’s primary energy source. However, any new source must be economically and energetically feasible. Political barriers to implementation must be considered as well. This essay will attempt the following: to clearly identify the economic, political, and scientific barriers of implementation for OTEC and determine whether current OTEC technology can overcome barriers of implementation.
Posted at Mar 31/2005 02:52 PM:
Peter Saeta: I would just modify "current PV technology" in the final sentence to allow extrapolation of recent trends to future PV technology.
Sources considering: Either available via Honnold, Science Direct or Omnifile
"Maximum Output of an OTEC power plant" -Sciencedirect
"Second Law assessment of binary plants generating power from low-temperature geothermal fluids" -Sciencedirect
"A FINANCING STRATEGY FOR SMALL OTEC PLANTS" -Sciencedirect
"THE VIABILITY AND BEST LOCATIONS FOR OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS AROUND THE WORLD" -Sciencedirect
and the list goes on. Also looking at the book:
"Ocean thermal Energy Conversion" by H. Gary Knight, J. D. Nyhart, and Rober E. Stein
sdarticle-maximum power output.pdf
sdarticle-financing an otec.pdf
sdarticle-kalina cycle thermodynamics.pdf
sdarticle-viability and best locations.pdf
exergy study of the kalina cycle.pdf
5/4/05
Didn't have much time to really edit the paper with what we talked about this morning, but here it is. I tried double spacing it but haven't fixed the formatting yet. The last section is still in outline form as I need to pull some facts out of the texts I have.
New outline for OTEC.doc --- I didn't have time to go thoroughly through the paper, but I marked up the beginning with some things to think about. I ran into Prof. McFadden; she said she knew nothing about OTEC. Oh well.
