What is Blue Energy?
Most of you movie lovers must come across this terminology in one way or another as it is featured in fiction movies or alien world...but its true! There is Blue Energy....simple, this is what do you get when saltwater and fresh water meet? A clean, renewable source of power called blue energy. Blue energy, sometimes called ocean energy, is a term for the method of generating electricity through the convergence of both fresh and salt water. This energy can be extracted through a variety of means, including tidal power, current power,wave power,thermal energy conversion, and osmosis (consider osmotic energy, hah!). Power may also be collected by harnessing the wind power associated with the body of water — usually the ocean.
Most of you movie lovers must come across this terminology in one way or another as it is featured in fiction movies or alien world...but its true! There is Blue Energy....simple, this is what do you get when saltwater and fresh water meet? A clean, renewable source of power called blue energy. Blue energy, sometimes called ocean energy, is a term for the method of generating electricity through the convergence of both fresh and salt water. This energy can be extracted through a variety of means, including tidal power, current power,wave power,thermal energy conversion, and osmosis (consider osmotic energy, hah!). Power may also be collected by harnessing the wind power associated with the body of water — usually the ocean.
Blue energy extracted by osmosis, also called salient gradient power, employs a large artificial semi-permeable membrane to create reverse electrodialysis from natural marine resources. The energy that results can be used to generate electricity. The only byproduct of blue energy is brackish water. Brackish water is simply a combination of fresh and salt water which naturally occurs in an estuary.Blue energy is only useful in certain geographical areas. The only way to create blue energy other than in a laboratory is at an estuary, where fresh water river currents and the saline tides of the ocean meet at the river’s mouth. Though the technology of blue energy has been understood for quite sometime, manufacturing the membranes was far too expensive to become a practical energy alternative. Recently, more economical membranes have been developed which will allow blue energy technology to begin being implemented in suitable environments. Currently blue energy is being used successfully in the Netherlands.
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