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Science 25 July 1975:
Vol. 189. no. 4199, pp. 294 - 295
DOI: 10.1126/science.189.4199.294
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Foam Solar Sea Power Plant

Clarence Zener 1 and John Fetkovich 2

1 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
2 Department of Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University

In the accompanying report Beck suggests a new type of open-cycle system for obtaining power from the ocean's thermal gradient. A modification of this open-cycle plant which will ensure a high efficiency, and also a low capital cost per unit power output, is described here.

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