Article: OKC-based C.H. Guernsey & Co.'s technology generates electricity from seawater

Science tells us water and electricity don't mix.

Science has changed.

In fact, if the guys at C.H. Guernsey & Co. have anything to say about it, water and electricity are ready to become fast friends. And, in a Flash-Gordon-meets-MacGyver type of approach, water - from the sea, to be exact - can be used to generate electricity, at least in certain parts of the world where the ocean is deep and the water is cold.

Sheldon Hunt, vice president and Pacific region manager for Guernsey, said water and electricity can be friends. In fact, by using a technique called Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, Hunt said seawater-generated electricity could be used to power many sites on the globe.

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