i read once that they were going to use sea water to collect solar energy. i have heard nothing more of this. does anyone know how this method is done?
2007-03-27 04:06:54 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Well, as the other poster mentioned, you can get energy from waves, but what most people meant was the hydrogen in the sea water. That was political spin and had nothing to do with reality.
What they wanted to claim was you take the H2O in sea water and break it into H2 gas and then "burn" the H2 gas. Unfortunately, the amount of energy needed to break the water into H2 gas is >= the amount of energy you get when you burn the H2 gas.
2007-03-27 04:15:11 · answer #1 · answered by doctor risk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They already do. Off the coast of Europe somewhere they have turbines that spin by the action of waves. Kinda like underwater windmills.
Wave action in the ocean is cause by weather, wind, convection of heat, etc. And all of that energy comes from nothing except the sun's heat. So this is (indirectly) using solar power, just as windmills do.
2007-03-27 11:12:18 · answer #2 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know anything about this..
2007-03-27 11:14:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋