{"id":45,"date":"2009-01-14T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T20:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-01-14T12:08:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T20:08:35","slug":"ocean-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Solar Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ocean is the largest solar collector in the world*.\u00a0 It is estimated that 300 times what the entire world consumes in electricity is available by tapping the upper layers of the tropical ocean.\u00a0 An added benefit of ocean solar power is the production, via desalinization, of fresh water.<\/p>\n<p>(Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, OTEC).<\/p>\n<h6>[*]\u00a0 With regard to the ocean, Mariette DiChristina has stated, \u201cThe world&#8217;s largest solar collector absorbs an awesome amount of the sun&#8217;s energy: equal to 37 trillion kilowatts annually &#8211; or 4,000 times the amount of electricity used by all humans on the planet. A typical square mile of that collector\u2014otherwise known as the surface waters of Earth&#8217;s vast oceans\u2014contains more energy than 7,000 barrels of oil.\u201d<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ocean is the largest solar collector in the world*.\u00a0 It is estimated that 300 times what the entire world consumes in electricity is available by tapping the upper layers of the tropical ocean.\u00a0 An added benefit of ocean solar power is the production, via desalinization, of fresh water. (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, OTEC). [*]\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceannrg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}