Tapping the Ocean’s Heat: Smarter Designs for Clean Power

Most renewable energy stories focus on wind and solar, but the oceans are an immense, underused source of power. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a technology that captures the natural temperature difference between warm surface water and cold deep water to generate electricity. It’s a renewable supply that is predictable and constant — unlike … Continue reading Tapping the Ocean’s Heat: Smarter Designs for Clean Power

Ocean Energy Removing Carbon from the Air

A recent study by the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria [48.5°N, 123.3°W] explores an novel energy solution against climate change: combining ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), which provides clean electricity, through the oceans’ natural differences in temperature, to generate sustainable energy, with direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS), which removes … Continue reading Ocean Energy Removing Carbon from the Air