ELECTRICAL ENERGY
NEW PRODUCING SCHEME
SURFACE HEAT OF THE SEA
FRENCH SCIENTIST’S PLAN
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 16, 8.40 p.m. Paris, Nov. 16.
Many eminent men were present at the meeting of the Academy of Science at which M. Georges Claude, the inventor of liquid aii- and synthetic ammonia, and M Boueherot 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 tropical seas in a vacuum. The steam thus obtained will produce as much energy as the same amount of water falling one hundred metres, and "Would have 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. They claim that the installations of the suggested plant would not cost more than the harnessing of favourable water falls.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1926, Page 9
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