- 1984 #20 (45p.)
- Author(s): GESAMP
- Publisher(s): UN
- Journal Series Reports and Studies
The oceans posses a number of characteristics that are representative of kinetic or potential forms of renewable energy: temperature gradients, biomass, waves, tides, currents, winds and salinity gradients. The feasibility of technologies that would tap such forms of energy was considered in 1979 and 1980 by the Technical Panel on Ocean energy of the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy (United Nations, 1981)...