Dr. Noboru Yamada, from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, wrote a conference paper regarding an enhancement of OTEC power generation using solar. Called SOTEC, the modelling indicates that an OTEC's efficiency can be increased 1.5 times using solar power.
This seems to me to be a no-brainer. Every OTEC island drawing up cold sea water from below should have solar panels absorbing sunlight from above and turbines harvesting wind from the sides. Energy flows in all directions.
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