Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion System : DigInfo

When you say steam, it's not only water steam. What is turned insto steal is AMMONIA. Depending on the pressure, ammonia can boil at temperatures as low as -20ºC or colder, well below the freezing temperature of water...

For the scientifically challenged people: Ammonia is already the main refrigeration fluid used in cold storage and Ice prodution in industrial scale the world. It's not suitable to be in supermarkets and homes because ammonia is dangerous if spilled.
What these guys did is to use this concept to generate electricity, heating the deep ocean and cooling the surface. It's as if they are collecting the energy of the sun that was absorbed by the water. Maybe it will even help slow the global warming.

I love these haters,"it won't work unless you use coal,lots of coal and pour some crudeoil over those pretty lights for god sake" One of the first things Regan did as president was remove the already installed solar panels. Thes haters are everywhere. sorry for the rant .

Great invention but is it hurricane
resistant?

wow look red and blue LEDs lol

Ocean surface water may be warmer than deep ocean water but it's still lower than average room temperature. How do they use that to turn cold water into steam? I think it's just the ammonia that turns from liquid to gas and back. And I'm pretty sure that once the deep ocean water is used to condense the ammonia, it isn't pumped back down and released in the deep, it's released on the surface- where it will threaten to cool the surface water unless a current carries it away.

You´re correct. Ammonia is the fluid which moves the turbine. No water.

What happen if the ammonia is pumped to the deep ocean thru a close cycle pipe.

It would release heat down there possibly effecting what lives down there.

wouldnt matter if on a large scale it heated the ocean or not, during the winter it would cool down again then repete the process each year, if it did heat the ocean too much melting icebergs would easily cool down the warm seas anyhow

For success, is necesary to study the ocean currents. Exist certain places where this system is feasible.

This system uses warm water coming from equador. All year is possible to be working this system.