BEIJING: Worldwide thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is likely to rise by 49 percent if there is an emission scenario of high carbon, according to a Chinese scientific research team as reported by Xinhua.
Ocean University of China’s Jing Zhao, who is a physical oceanographer, said that this pioneering analysis of the current status of global OTEC resources has been measured for the first time. The results of these studies will aid in the future development and utilization of OTEC resources.
Renewable energy sources to produce electricity
Zhao elaborated that OTEC resources provide a renewable source of energy electricity is generated through large differences in temperature between the sea’s surface and that of the ocean’s deep waters.
The Nature Communications journal published this study recently, which evaluated the OTEC’s global resources in an analysis based on an unprecedented high-resolution and long-term climate simulation. Xinhua/APP
