TY - CHAP AU - Enrique Celestino Carrera Chan AU - María Fernanda Sabido Tun AU - Juan Francisco Bárcenas Graniel AU - Estela Cerezo Acevedo ED - Albert S. Kim ED - Hyeon-Ju Kim Y1 - 2020-05-13 PY - 2020 T1 - Environmental Impact Assessment of the Operation of an Open Cycle OTEC 1MWe Power Plant in the Cozumel Island, Mexico N2 - The 21st century is characterized as an era of natural resource depletion, and humanity is faced with several threats due to the lack of food, energy, and water. Climate change and sea-level rise are at unprecedented levels, being phenomena that make predicting the future of ocean resources more complicated. Oceans contain a limitless amount of water with small (but finite) temperature differences from their surfaces to their floors. To advance the utilization of ocean resources, this book readdresses the past achievements, present developments, and future progress of ocean thermal energy, from basic sciences to sociology and cultural aspects. BT - Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91179 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.91179 SN - 978-1-78985-572-2 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -