Chapter Ⅴ The Use of Ocean Energy

Introduction

World has come to the point where it needs more energy than ever before as energy demand grows rapidly on global scale. But not only does the world need energy， but it also needs energy gained from renewable and ecologically acceptable fuels that doesn't cause major ecological problems such as global warming and air pollution. Ocean energy could well be one of these new renewable energy sources and should really play more significant role in upcoming years. Oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface and they therefore present interesting energy source that may with time provide us with energy to power our households and industrial facilities. At this moment ocean energy is renewable energy source very rarely used as there are only few ocean energy power plants and most of ......     （共1152字）    [阅读本文]>>