The old First Millenial Foundation (then Living Universe Foundation) had an idea to use ocean thermal differences to drive turbines for energy in the early stages of its long-term and lofty goals.
Well the notion is back (via Ellis), maybe in a big way:
The old idea of using the temperature differential between layers of the ocean to generate power is being revived again, this time by Lockheed Martin of all people: but they’re being outpaced by, believe it or not, the US Army, who’ll have a major military base powered by ocean-thermal by the end of 2011. It seems that they also get the desalinisation of 1.25 million gallons of seawater per day out of the deal, which is also interesting.
About time.
Some FMF/LUF links, for old times sake:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/millennial_project.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project
http://amssolarempire.blogspot.com/2006/08/energy-part-2-energy-sources-for.html
http://spaceknowledge.net/?p=454
http://www.amazon.com/Millennial-Project-Colonizing-Galaxy-Eight/dp/0316771635
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