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Show French Mix Water, Generate Power At Abidjan, on the Ivory Coast, there is being built by the French government an electric elec-tric plant which will harness the energy obtained simply by mixing water with water. This is the first electric plant of its kind in history and in the world. It will have a power of 7,000 kw. It has been designed de-signed following detailed and successful experiments, bajed upr on the fact that temperatures in the surface waters of the oceans reach 82 degrees F in tropical countries, and cold waters from the depths are usually us-ually 46 degrees F. By bringing bring-ing these together huge quantities quan-tities of energy may be obtained. The process consists in evaporating evap-orating under vacuum part of the warm surface waters. The resulting steam is 'inhaled' by the condenser, which is cooled by the deep waters, and on the way it passes through a turbine that drives an electric generator. |