Floating Power Plant Could Provide Energy for Future

Korean researchers are delving into entirely new possibilities for clean energy that involves catamarans, mile-high parafoils and hydroelectric turbines. Together, these elements  comprise a “floating power plant,” which would generate gigawatts of energy by the sheer force of the wind. Essentially, the parafoil, which flies about a mile high, pulls the boat, which forces seawater through the turbine, separating seawater into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis, and storing the hydrogen on board for later use. Essentially, the From Wired:

“If such ships are deployed at 20-km (12.4-mile) intervals over two temperate zones, one in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in the Northern Hemisphere and the other everywhere in the Southern Hemisphere, the total power produced will be many times that needed by the world,” according to Park Chul of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute and Kim Jongchul of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.