lunes, 16 de abril de 2012

Perpetual Ocean

Brilliant video showing ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 to December 2007.

httpv://youtu.be/xusdWPuWAoU

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credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Gulf Stream from Wikipedia:
The Gulf Stream transports about 1.4 petawatts of heat, equivalent to 100 times the world energy demand,[35] and research into different ways to tap this power is being undertaken.

One idea, which would supply the equivalent power of several nuclear power plants, would deploy a field of underwater turbines placed 300 meters (980 ft) under the center of the core of the Gulf Stream.[36] Ocean thermal energy could also be harnessed to produce electricity utilizing the temperature difference between cold deep water and warm surface water.[37]

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