NON CONVENTIONAL ENERGY
SOURCE
-OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION
(OTEC)
ABSTRACT
Our modern global community is confronted with a multitude of challenging environmental problems, and overwhelming consumption of fossil fuel is threatening man and earth's very survival.
It is important to understand that present environmental conditions are the result of long-term abuse and the process of solving problems to return to a sound and healthy environment is going to be difficult. We are currently on a collision course, finding ourselves in a situation where too many people are demanding too many goods and services. As the world's population expands, so does industrial production, creating a higher standard of living for more of our citizens who will then consume even more fossil fuel.The result is escalating damage to the global environment as our precious finite natural resources are depleted.
During the next 20 years, experts foresee a need for 1500 gigawatts of additional power simply to meet new demand. This equates to 15,000 power plants that are 100 MW's each and 59 million barrels of oil consumed each day. The World Bank estimates that the developing countries alone will need to spend $100 billion each year for the next 30 years installing new power plants most of which will be in the equatorial zone. These are astronomical figures that could mean enormous quantities of fossil fuel and 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere per year. Hence, an urgent need to switch to alternative energy. So, non-conventional, renewable and environmental friendly energy sources are the need of hour and are vital for steering the global energy supplies towards a sustainable path.
In this paper we want to present a source of energy called
OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY or OTEC that converts solar radiation to usable energy which has potential to produce endless amounts of energy for countries in remote areas and we also want to present the
technological and economical aspects of OTEC plant and an overview
of INDIAN 1MW floating OTEC power plant .
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