{"id":1743,"date":"2012-03-22T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2012-05-05T16:20:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T23:20:47","slug":"2012-03-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=1743","title":{"rendered":"2012-03-22 OTEC Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read that Peltier TEGs (thermoelectric generators) are less efficient than conventional electromechanical systems such as turbines\/generators.\u00a0 Mayak pointed out that TEGs could be used to generate power by using the difference in temperature between the surface and deep water of the ocean.\u00a0 I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversion\">Wikipedia entry<\/a> on this, called OTEC, which apparently doesn&#8217;t consider TEGs, probably because they&#8217;re less efficient than conventional systems.\u00a0 Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrel.gov\/otec\/what.html\">link to NREL&#8217;s OTEC entry.<\/a>\u00a0 According to them, OTEC has been around for more than a hundred years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read that Peltier TEGs (thermoelectric generators) are less efficient than conventional electromechanical systems such as turbines\/generators.\u00a0 Mayak pointed out that TEGs could be used to generate power by using the difference in temperature between the surface and deep water of the ocean.\u00a0 I found the Wikipedia entry on this, called OTEC, which apparently<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=1743\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}