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Generation 1: Gone but Not Forgotten! spells out how they used the Hydrothermocline
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===Marvel Comics continuity===
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====''Generation 1''====
====''Generation 1''====
The hydrothermocline was under development at Energy Futures Industries.  Inevitably, the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] came knocking...as well as the [[Autobot|Autobots]].  The good guys virtually won; the bad guys walked off with the prize...but that's how [[Multi-World|the game]] goes, sometimes. {{storylink|Afterdeath!|Afterdeath!}}
The hydrothermocline was under development at Energy Futures Industries.  Inevitably, the [[Decepticon]]s came knocking...as well as the [[Autobot]]s.  The good guys virtually won; the bad guys walked off with the prize...but that's how [[Multi-World|the game]] goes, sometimes. {{storylink|Afterdeath!}}
 
It is not clear what use the Decepticons made of their new toy, but given that they quickly set up [[Club Con|an undersea base in warm, temperature-stratified tropical waters]], they may have found it very useful indeed.


The Decepticons moved their base of operations to [[Club Con|an island in the Florida Keys]] in order to take advantage of Earth's oceans. {{storylink|Gone but Not Forgotten!}}


==Notes==
==Notes==

Revision as of 04:07, 15 June 2012

The hydrothermocline is a power generator from the Marvel Comics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Quick, we need some real-life science to power our island vacation resort spaceship!

Useful power can be generated from heat differentials...and as it happens, the oceans of Earth contain heat differentials. How does one recover this power? It's simple! All you need is the Hydrothermocline™, another fine product of Energy Futures Industries! It's guaranteed to solve Earth's energy problems forever, unless those dratted robots steal it first.

Well, it will be a fine product, if their programmers will stop wasting company time MUSHing.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Generation 1

The hydrothermocline was under development at Energy Futures Industries. Inevitably, the Decepticons came knocking...as well as the Autobots. The good guys virtually won; the bad guys walked off with the prize...but that's how the game goes, sometimes. Afterdeath!

The Decepticons moved their base of operations to an island in the Florida Keys in order to take advantage of Earth's oceans. Gone but Not Forgotten!

Notes

  • Like much of Bob Budiansky's fictional technology, the hydrothermocline is solidly grounded in real-world science. Its operating principle is sound, and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) plants have been studied, proposed, and actually tested in prototype form.