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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (20643)6/15/2001 3:20:17 AM
From: Graystone  Read Replies (1) of 110652
 
I can understand why.
or
Desperation

It is clear that California needs more power, lots of it.

They are going to have to go big budget and build some OTS power sources.They could get into shrimp farming at the same time.

Insider Facts
Shrimp have lots of diseases
Antarctic shrimp need curing
Shrimp farming is the ultimate scam, along with immortality and the fountain of youth.


The irony is that California could do just that, shrimp farming and power generation, all at once.
Here is an old source

Dr. J. Pournelle.
A Step Farther Out c 1979
..the pollutants associated with the Ocean Thermal Systems (OTS) are interesting: the most significant is fish.......feasibility of OTS: in 1928 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light, built a 20kW OTS system for use in the Caribbean. It worked for two years.
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