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Why not just do this on the shore instead of a floating ship with unmaintainable floating solar islands? I suspect the more realistic scenario though would be
by readams 7y ago
Why not just do this on the shore instead of a floating ship with unmaintainable floating solar islands? I suspect the more realistic scenario though would be to use a huge nuclear power plant to make fuel by pulling CO_2 from the air.
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- danielharan 7y agoUnless we have costs breakthroughs in nuclear, solar is going to stay cheaper.
- andromeduck 7y agoI doubt solar is actually cheaper for this process right now.
- wallace_f 7y agoLast I read Japan still has green plans involving hydrogen. They could just save a step, thereby also conserving energy. In fact, that's an old proposition as an alternative to fossil fuels. Too bad nuclear has enormous public image and political cost problems.
- bjelkeman-again 7y agoThis seems like an old Idea, repackaged with a bit of new technology, i.e. solar panels. Here is a paper from 1984, suggesting methanol production from Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). https://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/views/pdfs/V05_N2_1984/V5_N2_1984_Avery.pdf https://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/views/pdfs/V05_N2_1984/V5_... What is OTEC? http://www.otecnews.org/what-is-otec/ http://www.otecnews.org/what-is-otec/ Disclaimer: I started OTEC News once upon a time.