Convert a Surplus Oil Tanker to a Floating Water Plant
Use Deep Ocean Water for Desalinization of Seawater

The World Trade Organization requires replacement of single hulled oil tankers with double hulled tankers. Relatively new oil tanker ships are being scrapped for environmental safety.

It would cost approximately $1 Million to gain title and convert the registration of a single hulled tanker destined for scrapping from "Petroleum Bulk Carrier" to "OTEC Plantship."

An Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) plant would easily be installed in such a ship, with enough of a supporting plant to produce valuable chemical by-products sufficient to make the potable water virtually free, and, over time, pay for the conversion.

Obviously, converting the ship and installing the plant would cost consierable more, but nowhere near the cost of building a new plant and floating platform, which is what has been proposed to date.