Wind: The Principal Architect of Ocean Energy.

The air pressure within the environment of the earth’s atmosphere is never constant as the temperature of the air itself can vary significantly from one adjacent area to the next. Temperature and pressure differentials go hand in hand and are naturally occurring processes that can cause a mass of air to move along the surface of the earth towards an area of lower atmospheric pressure. These natural processes produce the significant force of nature that is Wind. We often experience for ourselves the tremendous power that exists when the bulk and velocity of moving air reaches even average parameters on land.

Seventy one percent of the earth’s surface is covered by the ocean and likewise the effect that wind is capable of exerting on the ocean surface will always be potentially much greater than that of land. Wind can move much more freely over the surface of the ocean than it can over land and, during long distances of travel across the ocean, wind can also transfer a great abundance of its energy into the surface of the sea. The greater the wind mass and velocity the greater the amount of energy that will be available to be absorbed by the ocean.

The ocean waves are a direct and visible result of this naturally occurring transfer of energy, it’s a process of global energy conversion and storage that takes place every day on a truly massive scale.

Up to now the sea has been the provider of an abundance of seemingly limitless food resources; however while some of these resources today are clearly demonstrating limits due to over exploitation which must be curtailed, the energy that is present in the oceans is a very significant and sustainable resource that we have only started to explore.

“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”

― Jacques-Yves Cousteau