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No one said the OTEC actually had to be efficient... but as you said, the same result. I actually specified the tropics back in post 3.
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I guess at higher latitudes they would've gone for some different energy system, wind and waves perhaps, or just more reliance on nuclear. As for efficiency, I've got a few ideas about that for a possible infrastructure post.
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The plastic was harvested from the Gyre, but it could have been transported to any number of places, though I suspect the journey would have stayed in the same ocean.
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Ah, that's a point. I'd been picturing the plastic collection as an ongoing process, with long boom traps extending out from the OTEC platforms.
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The timeline post has been awesome. It really helps keep track of everything. I think we're discovering that summary posts like that really extend the activity on these projects.
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It's interesting to note that Musa was born before the invention of air travel, suggesting that it's retarded in comparison to organic AI and computing.