Sea Energy — GEMA Catalog 2018

Academia del Mar, GEMA, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional F.R.B.A., Argentina

Abstract: It is in England and around the year 1750 that the beginning of the industrial revolution can be identified. From then, the industrialization and the increasing consumption of energy are inevitably associated. Then and until now, the demand for fossil fuels and the industrial growth are fully extended. First it was the mineral coal (which continues), then the oil and later the gas provides that energy. Note that the three sources are non-renewable and they are widely used in thermal machines, either external combustion (boilers), or internal combustion (cycle Otto-Beau Rochás, Diesel, Bryton); all of them produce gases and polluting particles. For a better understanding, the requirements of societies can be compared in three historical periods, separated one hundred years from another. In the beginnings of industrialization coal predominates (until the last third of the 19th century); then oil and some water sources continue and in the current stage (since the mid-twentieth century) coexist with nuclear energy (which began commercially in 1957. USA) the renewable energy, from the wind, the sun, the biomass, the thermal of geological origin and also in a slow way we began to use the sea energies.