Convection Station by chippwalters
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Description
This prospecting platform of the future uses Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) to capture green hydrogen which it transports to the mainland via underwater bubblelines.
What is OTEC? The ocean's surface in the Gulf of Mexico can be eighty degrees in the summer. Three thousand feet below the surface the temperature hovers around forty degrees all year. OTEC is the process of producing electricity from the energy generated as heat transfers from one temperature to the other. Although the temperature difference in one gallon of water would only be worth about 300 hundred BTUs, multiplying that by a functionally unlimited supply would provide a great deal of usable energy.
Another speed render, this is a simple scene, all objects created entirely in Vue. I was playing around with terrains, and created a scaffold like rock shape. I then inserted some GridModeler boxes into it, added the metablob housing area, and added a few metablob vehicles from previous scenes. Finished it off with a couple Metapeeps on deck and a single background terrain masked by a low lying cloud layer. The antenna structures are a simple EcoSystem on top of the main quaters. The spinal cord looking elevator is just a replication of my default house shape used for my freebie: Understanding Fog and Haze over at C3D.
Levels and minor tweaks in Photoshop.
Comments (44)
thefixer
Cool scene, very creative back story!
preeder
Excellent work.
PapaSkip
Very cool scene!
necrophage
cool sci-fi render - great artwork!
wliebtposer
very good render 5+++
Umbetro38
I dio not understand all , but I like this excelelnt Idea - cool SF Art
Biffowitz
I like how the metapeeps add a sense of scale to it all! Awesome scene and atmosphere, sweet render alright!
bigbraader
Very cool sci-fi scene & models, excellent render.
kassad
Great scene and render. B->
capelito
Cool and excellent work.
sirenia
Very cool idea and in my eyes this is a fantastic render :-)
katy555
Beautiful fiction with superb colors, fantastic…
FrenchKiss
Looks really fantastic! Well done! I really find this interesting because I recently saw a documentary of how a hotel in Bora Bora uses COLD water brought up from the depths hundreds of meters off the island to air-condition the entire place (main building and separate bungalows). Your image illustrates the idea of using changes in temperature to create energy. What uncanny new energy idea come from observing the ocean.
alx
Very good!
Wolf-999
Great modeling - I think no one does it better in Vue!!
JCD
Great image, love the haze!
IQ200
Excellent work, great scale!
thecytron
Simply outstanding! A sure 5++ from me! Bravo!!!
MRX3010
Great work good to see an optimistic future render.
Fidelity2
Perfect. 5+.
boristen
Perfect again! But, if I was allowed to make some changes, I would make two figures up there to be tall one third or one fourth of the present value. At present state they almost destroy the magnificence of the view. But, of course, that is me, not you. 5+ anyway.
gibby.g
Great scene, very realistic, nice story to back it up.
allisonbender
Great work >>> I love these types of futuristic scenes!!! tom
geirla
Great image! The colors of water and sky are subtle and with the fog, give a sense of a predawn scene. Love the model and the concept. It would be nice if the ocean rigs were doing something other than pumping hydrocarbons from the seafloor.
robert_robzomby
great!!!
Keymilan
Great work, fantastic scene and POV !
me109
Great SciFi!
timspfd
Nifty stuff, I really like the combination of organic and geometric shapes you've used.
louly
Interesting: ) Great scene, I'm always a fan of your textures and light :)
SIGMAWORLD
Awesome.