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...objective of the unique operation is to capture oil and gas from fissures on the ocean floor, helping to rid local beaches of a thick, gooey carpet of tar that washes up daily. Says County Supervisor William Wallace: "If your dog got loose and went down to the beach, it would take you an hour to clean his feet." Still worse, the putrid smell of hydrogen sulfide often hangs over the area like vapor from a truckload of rotten eggs. The culprit is not a leaking oil well, but nature. The ocean floor is spilling large quantities...
...first of which was installed a fortnight ago. Placed over an area with a large concentration of leeps, they will sit on the sea floor like upside-down funnels, collecting gas and oil. The natural gas is siphoned off through a 6-in.-wide pipe that runs along the ocean bottom to shore. The oil will be stored in tanks within the pyramids and periodically emptied by ships. The project is expected to yield 50 bbl. of oil and 600,000 cu. ft. of gas a day, which will not be enough to offset the $8 million investment made...
Cullinane, age 23, of Somerville, apparently lost his footing September 14 on a cliff-edge path in Golden State National Park and fell to his death into the Pacific Ocean near the Golden Gate Bridge...
...garbage, has provided the most encouraging results thus far. The burning of bagasse, the brownish fibrous residue from sugar cane, began in the early 1970s when the Environmental Protection Agency ordered a halt to the dumping of 2.7 million tons of cane waste per year into the Pacific Ocean. With a little help from the Government and a capital investment of some $25 million, planters discovered that a ton of bagasse produces the equivalent electricity of 1 bbl. of oil. Bagasse now provides 7% of Hawaii's electricity needs. But the state is not relying entirely on the depressed...
...Ocean thermal energy conversion, or OTEC, is decades away from full development, but one OTEC scientist feels that it may one day deliver as much energy from Hawaiian waters alone as the entire U.S. now consumes. OTEC utilizes warm surface waters to heat pressurized ammonia, which vaporizes, expands and propels a power turbine. Then the gaseous ammonia is cooled by subsurface waters, converted back to a liquid and repeats the process all over again. In 1979 a floating mini-OTEC plant generated a net 15 kilowatts per hour, making it the first such plant to produce more energy than...