Ocean option

IOll AbundantEneigyhomlheSeasThe oceans have served us well for thousands of years, providing among other things sea lanes for the shipping of goods.More and more, such shipping involves oil and natural gas, the fossil fuels so vital to modern life yet such an increasing threat to both our economy and the environment.Fortunately, the oceans that oil tankers sail on may be one solution to our growing energy problems: Energy from the oceans can begin to provide electric power for U.S. islands in the 1980s, and for the U.S. Gulf Coast in the 1990s.The Department of Energy's "ocean energy option" foresees the development of safe, clean, competitively priced power from a virtually unlimited source.