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Yosef Safi Harb
About: I have lived my life in different parts of the world and enjoy learning from cultures. Today,I am graduate Aerospace engineer with a minor in Entrepreneurship. My ambitions is to start a world company with a focus on sustainability.
Ocean Energy for Curacao
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The Pitch:
Life is beautiful on Caribbean islands, but it comes at a price.
Islands, such as Hawaii and Curacao are paying for the world's highest energy prices! The reason: major dependence on fossil fuel that need to be produced abroad and transported to the island by huge tankers.
Why not move away from fossil dependence and increase the quality of life even more?
Using THE OCEAN!
Each day, the ocean is absorbing enough energy from the sun to supply the entire world for months. The way to harness part of this energy is through Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), which converts the temperature difference of the deep and shallow water into electricity. It functions as an inverted refrigerator. Where in a fridge you put in electricity to obtain a heat difference, with OTEC you use the temperature difference of the Ocean to produce electricity.
For this past year, 4 honor students at the Delft University of Technology have been working on an award winning design a 10 MW power plant for Curacao. This power plant has a payback time of 7-10 years and with 10 of these could make the island energy self sufficient!
Are you ready for the Blue Revolution?!
We are!
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