Follow up to Oahu, Hawaii, OTEC announcement
I asked in a post the other day whether there was one or two OTEC plants under negotiation at Oahu, Hawaii. I asked a source […]
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Not one, but two OTEC plants in Hawaii?
Thanks to Maria Tome, Hawaii State Energy Office for confirming that the Lookheed Martin OTEC will be built on Oahu, Hawaii. She pointed to this […]
Boosting OTEC with solar thermal
Dr. Noboru Yamada, from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, earlier this year sent me a conference paper regarding “Thermal efficiency enhancement of Ocean Thermal Energy […]
Xenesys OTEC demonstration model
I recently found this short YouTube video of the Xenesys OTEC demonstration model. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQmfRNzLNQs&hl=en&fs=1]
New Scientist on OTEC
New Scientist has a two page article on OTEC in the latest issue (19 Nov. 2008). The article mostly talks about issues related to the […]
Hawaii OTEC
Doug Carlsson at Hawaii Energy Options was the first of several people to highlight that the Hawaii governor announced that Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute […]
OTEC in the Bahamas?
According to this blog post one OTEC company, OCEES, submitted a proposal to the Bahamas Electricity Corporation with regards to a recent Request For Proposal […]
OTEC implementation in Tahiti starts
According to a press notice on their web site Xenesys have announced that they are going to start the commercial implementation of OTEC in Tahiti. […]
OTEC used as negotiation tool in the Marshall Islands
According to the Marshall Island Journal (continued here) the negotiations about continued use of the Island of Kwajalein by the US defence forces could be […]
Marshall Islands sees OTEC as way out of emergency
Yokwe Online reports that the Marshall islands president has declared an economic state of emergency, due to energy prices. One part of the declaration looks […]