Information Package On Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Otec Package For Prospective Ocean Renewable Energy Technology Club Members

The 21st century is characterized as an era of natural resource depletion, and humanity is faced with several threats due to the lack of food, energy, and water. Climate change and sea-level rise are at unprecedented levels, being phenomena that make predicting the future of ocean resources more complicated. Oceans contain a limitless amount of water with small (but finite) temperature differences from their surfaces to their floors. To advance the utilization of ocean resources, this book readdresses the past achievements, present developments, and future progress of ocean thermal energy, from basic sciences to sociology and cultural aspects.

This report summarizes wave energy conversion and ocean thermal energy conversion information that is available in the public domain for the developing member countries and assesses the viability of using these resources to produce electricity. In addition, the report identifies supplementary resource information that is required for system design and evaluates the development status of the required equipment.