Hawaii First to Harness Deep-Ocean Temperatures for Power • Hacker News Board

Steko wrote: post #19

dogma1138 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Old link was for announcing the original pilot and they've built that one, they are already scaling it in China and other places why not scale it in the US?

> Old link was for announcing the original pilot and they've built that one, You seem confused about something, that link is announcing a 5-10 MW system they didn't build. Or rather what they built is the system that you're calling useless. > they are already scaling it in China and other places why not scale it in the US? That question is answered in the comment you replied to. China doesn't care about things like m…

Well you sure seem to think so, while everything pointing to the fact that they are just bringing the initial pilot to full capacity rather than developing or scaling the technology further.

Re: Hawaii First to Harness Deep-Ocean Temperatures for Power

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Post by hadeharian » Sat, Sep 05, 2015, 10:20 PM UTC

Good to see that the concept which was first presented to me in an ACT problem is finally becoming a reality. It would have been nice to have heard about this before taking a timed test. Much too fascinating and time consuming.

Re: Hawaii First to Harness Deep-Ocean Temperatures for Power

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Post by sitkack » Sun, Sep 06, 2015, 6:30 PM UTC

stmfreak wrote: post #27

sitkack wrote: post #12

Unintended consequences of deep sea ocean warming.

No one worries about these things when the numbers are big. I say the same thing about geothermal energy.

Just like the ocean and the atmosphere is an infinite sink for carbon. Look at fraking causing earth quakes, things we can't internalize will never effect us. The crust of the earth is an eggshell floating on liquid rock, we should take care of it.