Column: OTEC: the 800-lb. gorilla for electricity generation, auto fuel

For four decades, the 800-pound gorilla for electrical and automobile energy that no one is paying attention to is Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). A system whose proof of concept was first established by the U.S. government in a research project in Hawaii in 1979, the execution of that idea has simply languished because thinking big doesn’t come easy.

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