{"id":522831,"date":"2010-04-10T01:34:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T05:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/solo-trec-the-world-s-first-unmanned-underwater-vehicle-powered-by-renewable-energy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T01:34:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T05:34:15","slug":"solo-trec-%e2%80%93-the-world%e2%80%99s-first-unmanned-underwater-vehicle-powered-by-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522831","title":{"rendered":"SOLO-TREC \u2013 The world\u2019s first unmanned underwater vehicle powered by renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/04\/10\/solo-trec_JOnhp_69.jpg\" alt=\"solo trec\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Self-sustainable UUV uses the energy of the ocean for practically limitless energy supply.<\/p>\n<p>SOLO-TREC, or Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangian Observer \u2013 Thermal RECharging, is powered by Navy-funded thermal engine that is accomplishing a feat that no other underwater vessel has ever done. The engine uses the energy of the ocean to derive more energy than it consumes and offers a way to generate practically limitless energy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/solo-trec.jpl.nasa.gov\/SOLO-TREC\/\">SOLO-TREC<\/a> is outfitted with a series of tubes filled with phase-change materials. As the float gets into warmer temperatures, the materials expand and the reverse happens when the float reaches colder regions. This expansion and contraction is used to drive a hydraulic motor, which generates electricity to recharge batteries powering a pump. The pump can change the float\u2019s buoyancy, allowing it to move up and down the water column.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, the engine offers an unlimited supply of energy, which can only stop if the ocean runs out of energy, which is highly unlikely to happen. The SOLO-TREC has already made 430 dives from the surface to about 500 meters and each time it produces about 1.6Wh of electricity, which is enough to operate the instruments onboard.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-04\/submarine-runs-eternally-thermal-power-ocean-currents\">PopSci<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Self-sustainable UUV uses the energy of the ocean for practically limitless energy supply. SOLO-TREC, or Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangian Observer \u2013 Thermal RECharging, is powered by Navy-funded thermal engine that is accomplishing a feat that no other underwater vessel has ever done. The engine uses the energy of the ocean to derive more energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}