Hey, if any engineers read this, could you guys look at an idea I have and tell me if it would be of any assistance to the fledgling OTEC movements? What if you built your floating OTEC plant such that it collected sea water from a huge shallow concrete bowl painted black to increase the water temperature differential between collected surface water and deep cold water? Wouldn't such a move allow a wider area of viability on the oceans for OTEC technology as you could either draft shallower for cool water, collect greater energy if you went to the same depths for cold water as a non solar-boosted OTEC, or operate in colder northern waters than is currently feasible with bare OTEC technology?
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