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SURFACE HEAT OF SEA NOVEL SCHEME PROPOUNDED. Preas Association—By Telegraph-Copyright PARIS, November 16. Many eminent men were present at a meeting of the Academy of Science, at which M. Georges Claude, the inventor of liquid air and synthetic ammonia,and M. Boucherot elaborated their scheme for utilising the surface heat of the sea for the production of electrical energy. They propose to exploit the difference between the temperature of the surface water in the tropics and. the cold currents from the Poles. Their idea is to boil the surface water in the tropical seas in a vacuum. The steam thus obtained will produce as much energy as the same amount of water falling 100 metres, and will have a pressure sufficient to feed turbine engines, Incidentally the torrents of icy water drawn up would counteract the intense humidity, and enable Europeans to live in comfort in . the tropics. The installations would not cost more than the fearnessing of favorable waterfalls,
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Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 4
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163HEW SOURCE OF ENERGY Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 4
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