The IBIS Group

Goat Island Tobago

West Indies

Garifuna Energy Ltd.

E-mail: admin@Ibisltd.com

We utilize power derived from the ocean’s surface currents. We designed a turbine to capture this energy in the form of electricity, which when transmitted via undersea cable to land, may be used to heat seawater to produce steam, leaving behind salt as a by-product.

The superheated steam now does double duty,  first, it drives a standard AC electric generator operating at 60 hz, which means it could be integrated into a larger electric grid, and secondly, the cooled steam now condensed to fresh water, would be stored in tanks and available as potable water.

The initial energy production however depends on the availability of strong steady ocean currents, to drive the undersea turbines. These conditions are ideally satisfied in the Caribbean where one of the world’s major ocean currents, the north equatorial current, driven by the heat of the tropics, the trade winds and the forces generated by the earth’s rotation, joins with the Guiana current and moves huge masses of water through the passages between the islands into the Caribbean Sea.

The motive power from the marine current flow is represented by the equation P = 1/2ρV³A where P = Power output, ρ = density of water; V = Ocean current velocity and A = turbine rotor area. We expect to generate between 1-5 Megawatts per generator, output varying on the current velocity.

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