ELECTRICAL ENERGY
FROM SURFACE HEAT OF SEA FRENCH SCIENTISTS’' PROPOSAL (Rec. November 16, 5.40 p.m.) Paris, November 16. Many eminent men were present at a meeting of the Academy of Science, at which M. Georges Claude, inventor of liquid air and synthetic ammonia, and 1 ’ Boucherot elaborated their scheme for utilising the surface heat of the sea for the production of electrical energy. They propose to exploit the difference between the temperature of the surface water in the tropics and the cold currents . from the Poles. Their idea is to boil the surface water in . the tropical seas in vacuum. The steam thus obtained will produce as much energy as the same amount of water falling 100 metres and have a pressure sufficient to feed turbine engines. Incidentally the torrents of icy water drawn up would counteract the intense humidity, and enable Europeans to live in comfort in the tropics. The installations would not cost more than the harnessing of favourable waterfalls.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 45, 17 November 1926, Page 11
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162ELECTRICAL ENERGY Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 45, 17 November 1926, Page 11
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