{"refrec":{"BRefID":234490,"RR":"<b>Rajagopalan, K.; Nihous, G.C.</b> (2013). An assessment of global Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion resources under broad geographical constraints. <i>J. Renew. Sust. Energ. 5(6)</i>: 063124. <a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4850521\" target=\"_blank\">http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4850521</a>","BEntID":226174,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":1,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":null,"RefStringPartII":". <i>J. Renew. Sust. Energ. 5(6)</i>: 063124. <a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4850521\" target=\"_blank\">http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4850521</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Rajagopalan, K.; Nihous, G.C.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Rajagopalan, K.; Nihous, G.C.","Englishabstract":"Rates of <span class=\"named-content\">Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion</span> <span class=\"named-content\">(OTEC)</span> are assessed with a high-resolution (1°×1°) ocean <span class=\"named-content\">general circulation model</span> when broad geographical restrictions are imposed on the <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> implementation area. This may correspond to practical or legal limitations, such as the cost of long submarine power cables or the extent of Exclusive <span class=\"named-content\">Economic</span> Zones. Because some environmental effects predicted under large-scale <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> scenarios exhibit a strong asymmetry among major oceanic basins, numerical experiments where the <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> domain is restricted to such specific areas are also conducted. Results suggest that in all cases, a rate of about 0.2 TW per Sverdrup of <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> deep cold <span class=\"named-content\">seawater</span> is sustained when overall <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> net power peaks. At that juncture, <span class=\"named-content\">temperature</span> profiles in the <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> implementation areas are affected in similar ways, while the strength of the Thermohaline Circulation roughly doubles. Overall geographical constraints simply defined by distance to shore, given the model's 1° horizontal resolution, produce global <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> net power maxima of 12–14 TW. In such cases, <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> net power density approximately increases in inverse proportion to the <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> implementation area. Limiting <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> development to the Indo-Pacific yields results similar to the global case with a maximum proportional to the implementation area (12 TW), but simulations restricted to the Atlantic behave quite differently. In the latter case, <span class=\"named-content\">OTEC</span> net power peaks a little over 5 TW. 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