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Thank you to our volunteers

The Seasteading Institute has always been a small organization, meaning we have only two full-time staff members. We rely on volunteers to keep things going. 

Seasteading! Seas Too Rough?

Sometimes people from the Navy and from oil rigs in the North Sea say Seasteaders are naïve. But environments on the sea are as diverse as environments on land. Just as the continents feature the Himalayas and the Sahara, the oceans feature the North Sea and the tropics.

Clean, Renewable Energy with Dr. Patrick Takahashi

Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature difference between cooler deep water and warmer surface-level water to run a heat engine to produce useful work, usually in the form of electricity. Fresh water is a byproduct of this process.