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    OTEC uses the temperature difference between cooler deep and warmer shallow ocean waters to operate a heat engine and generate electricity. It can operate continuously at a high capacity. Cold, dense water masses sink and spread through thermohaline circulation, while upwelling replenishes the deep ocean with cold water. OTEC is a continuously available renewable resource that could provide base load power, with potential to generate up to 88,000 TWh/yr without affecting ocean temperatures. Systems are either open-cycle, using seawater, or closed-cycle, using working fluids like ammonia in a Rankine cycle turbine. Byproducts include cold water for air conditioning and fresh water from distillation.

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    OTEC uses the temperature difference between cooler deep and warmer shallow ocean waters to operate a heat engine and generate electricity. It can operate continuously at a high capacity. Cold, dense water masses sink and spread through thermohaline circulation, while upwelling replenishes the deep ocean with cold water. OTEC is a continuously available renewable resource that could provide base load power, with potential to generate up to 88,000 TWh/yr without affecting ocean temperatures. Systems are either open-cycle, using seawater, or closed-cycle, using working fluids like ammonia in a Rankine cycle turbine. Byproducts include cold water for air conditioning and fresh water from distillation.

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    OTEC uses the temperature difference between cooler deep and warmer shallow ocean waters to operate a heat engine and generate electricity. It can operate continuously at a high capacity. Cold, dense water masses sink and spread through thermohaline circulation, while upwelling replenishes the deep ocean with cold water. OTEC is a continuously available renewable resource that could provide base load power, with potential to generate up to 88,000 TWh/yr without affecting ocean temperatures. Systems are either open-cycle, using seawater, or closed-cycle, using working fluids like ammonia in a Rankine cycle turbine. Byproducts include cold water for air conditioning and fresh water from distillation.

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    Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) uses the ocean thermal gradient between cooler

    deep and warmer shallow or surface seawaters to run a heat engine and produce useful work,
    usually in the form of electricity. OTEC can operate with a very high capacity factor and so can
    operate in base load mode.
    The denser cold water masses, formed by ocean surface water interaction with cold atmosphere
    in quite specific areas of the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean, sink into the deep sea
    basins and spread in entire deep ocean by the thermohaline circulation. Upwelling of cold water
    from the deep ocean is replenished by the downwelling of cold surface sea water.
    Among ocean energy sources, OTEC is one of the continuously available renewable energy
    resources that could contribute to base-load power supply.[1] The resource potential for OTEC is
    considered to be much larger than for other ocean energy forms.[2] Up to 88,000 TWh/yr of power
    could be generated from OTEC without affecting the ocean’s thermal structure.[3]
    Systems may be either closed-cycle or open-cycle. Closed-cycle OTEC uses working fluids that
    are typically thought of as refrigerants such as ammonia or R-134a. These fluids have low boiling
    points, and are therefore suitable for powering the system’s generator to generate electricity. The
    most commonly used heat cycle for OTEC to date is the Rankine cycle, using a low-pressure
    turbine. Open-cycle engines use vapor from the seawater itself as the working fluid.
    OTEC can also supply quantities of cold water as a by-product. This can be used for air
    conditioning and refrigeration and the nutrient-rich deep ocean water can feed biological
    technologies. Another by-product is fresh water distilled from the sea.[4]
    OTEC theory was first developed in the 1880s and the first bench size demonstration model was
    constructed in 1926. Currently the world's only operating OTEC plant is in Japan, overseen
    by Saga University.

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