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Artificial Energy Islands to Produce Energy & Water, Energy Islands, Energy-generating islands, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, OTEC, George Claude, Alex Michaelis, Dominic Michaelis, Trevor Cooper-ChadwickOcean waves are already being used as a source of renewable energy, but could differences in water temperatures in the sea be our next source of green power? A decade old idea to generate renewable electricity for the globe with offshore, floating 'Energy Islands' could soon become a reality. The concept - creating artificial islands to collect wind, wave and solar power in the tropics - is based on the work of Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, a 19th-century French physicist, who envisioned the idea of using the sea as a giant solar-energy collector.1
Artificial Energy Islands to Produce Energy & Water, Energy Islands, Energy-generating islands, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, OTEC, George Claude, Alex Michaelis, Dominic Michaelis, Trevor Cooper-ChadwickOcean waves are already being used as a source of renewable energy, but could differences in water temperatures in the sea be our next source of green power? A decade old idea to generate renewable electricity for the globe with offshore, floating 'Energy Islands' could soon become a reality. The concept - creating artificial islands to collect wind, wave and solar power in the tropics - is based on the work of Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, a 19th-century French physicist, who envisioned the idea of using the sea as a giant solar-energy collector.2
