As a dental consulting expert, the importance of health not only lies on one’s eating habits but also how clean the environment is. That is why the use of alternative energy has become so important.
Ocean thermal energy is another untapped alternative energy that was first conceived by French engineer Jacques D’Arsonval in 1881 and the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii is the home to the only operating experimental OTEC, ocean thermal energy conversion, plant. Although this form of energy is very clean burning and adds no pollutants to the air, it could have a disrupting effect in the local environment.
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There are different types of OTEC, one of which is a closed cycle OTEC which is a low-point boiling liquid like propane which is boiled by the warm sea water in the reaction chamber, and the creates vapors that turn the turbines, thus generating energy.
Open Cycle OTEC is not that different from closed cycling, except in the Open Cycle there is no intermediate fluid. The sea water itself is the driver of the turbine engine in this OTEC format. Warm sea water found on the surface of the ocean is turned into a low-pressure vapor under the constraint of a vacuum. The low-pressure vapor is released in a focused area and it has the power to drive the turbine. To cool down the vapor and create desalinated water for human consumption, the deeper ocean’s cold waters are added to the vapor after it has generated sufficient electricity.
Hybrid Cycle OTEC is really just a theory for the time being. It seeks to describe the way that we could make maximum usage of the thermal energy of the ocean’s waters. There are actually two sub-theories to the theory of Hybrid Cycling. The first involves using a closed cycling to generate electricity. This electricity is in turn used to create the vacuum environment needed for open cycling. The second component is the integration of two open cyclings such that twice the amount of desalinated, potable water is created that with just one open cycle.
If you need more information about how you can use renewable energy to make your environment cleaner contact your doctor or refer to your dentist’s internet dental marketing.