Comment and Reply on "SeaMARC II mapping of transform faults in the Cayman Trough, Caribbean Sea"

Tuzo Wilson introduces the concept of transform faults, which has the effect of transforming Earth Science forever. Resistance to the new ideas is finally overcome in the late 1960s, as the theory of moving plates is established. Two scientists play a major role in quantifying the embryonic theory that is eventually dubbed ‘plate tectonics’. Dan McKenzie applies Euler’s theorem, used previously by Teddy Bullard to reconstruct the continents around the Atlantic, to the problem of plate rotations on a sphere and uses it to unravel the entire history of the Indian Ocean. Jason Morgan also wraps plate tectonics around a sphere. Tuzo Wilson introduces the idea of a fixed hotspot beneath Hawaii, an idea taken up by Jason Morgan to create an absolute reference frame for plate motions.

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The invasive red lionfish, Pterois volitans (Linnaeus 1758), in the southwestern Caribbean Sea

Aquatic Invasions ◽

10.3391/ai.2009.4.3.12 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 507-510 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Juliana González ◽

Marcela Grijalba-Bendeck ◽

Arturo Acero ◽

Ricardo Betancur-R.

Keyword(s):

Caribbean Sea ◽

Pterois Volitans ◽

Red Lionfish

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Sensitivity Analysis of OTEC-CC-MX-1 kWe Plant Prototype

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14092585 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (9) ◽

pp. 2585

Author(s):

Jessica Guadalupe Tobal-Cupul ◽

Estela Cerezo-Acevedo ◽

Yair Yosias Arriola-Gil ◽

Hector Fernando Gomez-Garcia ◽

Victor Manuel Romero-Medina

Keyword(s):

Sensitivity Analysis ◽

Experimental Tests ◽

Caribbean Sea ◽

Ocean Model ◽

Operating Conditions ◽

Working Fluid ◽

Ocean Energy ◽

Mexican Caribbean ◽

Water Temperature Data ◽

Mass Flows

The Mexican Caribbean Sea has potential zones for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) implementation. Universidad del Caribe and Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, with the support of the Mexican Centre of Innovation in Ocean Energy, designed and constructed a prototype OTEC plant (OTEC-CC-MX-1 kWe), which is the first initiative in Mexico for exploitation of this type of renewable energy. This paper presents a sensitivity analysis whose objective was to know, before carrying out the experimental tests, the behavior of OTEC-CC-MX-1 kWe regarding temperature differences, as well as the non-possible operating conditions, which allows us to assess possible modifications in the prototype installation. An algorithm was developed to obtain the inlet and outlet temperatures of the water and working fluid in the heat exchangers using the monthly surface and deep-water temperature data from the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model and Geographically Weighted Regression Temperature Model for the Mexican Caribbean Sea. With these temperatures, the following were analyzed: fluctuation of thermal efficiency, mass flows of R-152a and water and power production. By analyzing the results, we verified maximum and minimum mass flows of water and R-152a to produce 1 kWe during a typical year in the Mexican Caribbean Sea and the conditions when the production of electricity is not possible for OTEC-CC-MX-1 kWe.

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