Schmidt Marine

Seatrec is a spinoff company from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2005, Dr. Yi Chao assembled an innovative team at JPL to develop a recharging battery harvesting ocean temperature differentials between the warm surface waters and cold waters at depths. With the seed funding from JPL’s Research & Technology Development (R&TD) program during 2005-2007, the JPL team developed several key component technologies including Phase Change Materials (PCMs), the thermally actuated hydraulic pump, and hydraulic motor for power generation.