Extracting hydrogen from waste biomass
Researchers at the Process Technology Group at Warwick University, UK, have come up with a new process to extracting hydrogen from wet waste, i.e. wast […]
Nuclear power stations instead of clean free energy?
There is a resurgence in the interest in using nuclear power to fuel desalination facilities around the world, even though it produces nuclear waste, can […]
Algea to hydrogen, grown in a tank near you?
Extracting hydrogen using algea grown in tanks is discussed in a Wired article on the startup company, Melis Energy. The company is currently producing energy […]
A good or a bad solution to water shortage?
Wire magazine has an article on a new manual irrigation pump made by Nairobi-based nonprofit company Appropriate Technologies for Enterprise Creation (Approtec). Wired says “As […]
OTEC Overview
The paper Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), December 1999, by Dr. Luis Vega is now available on the OTECnews site, by kind permission of the […]
What a drag
Attaching what looks like fungus on a tree trunk to offshore platform legs or ocean pipes can help reduce forces due to drag and vortex […]
Serious pipe work
The Honolulu Star Bulletin has an article on the 55 inch pipleline [cached] that NEHLA has worked for the last twelve years to put in […]
Tomorrows fuel
New Scientist has a short book review of two books about hydrogen as fuel. One of the books Tomorrow’s Energy by Peter Hoffmann, MIT, ISBN […]
Seawater as CO2 filter
One of the major issues with keeping people in underwater habitats has for a long time been been the chemicals needed to scrub the CO2 […]
Changes to OTECnews
You can now subscribe to OTECnews via email. Ever day there is a new piece of news on OTECnews you can receive it in your […]