Xenesys/Saga heat exchanger research centre
A Xenesys and Saga University joint research centre will be opened in April 2008. The centre which will house 40 employees is expected to cost […]
Research
OTEC research positions at Saga University
Saga University’s Institute of Ocean Energy is offering six research positions for three years. However, it appears that you have to be Japanese speaking, as […]
Taiwan officially investigates OTEC
The Taiwan Journal published by the Taiwan government says in an article [cached] that in January the Council for Economic Planning and Development set up […]
Could 'Liquid Metal' technologies transform the economics of OTEC components?
‘Liquid Metal’ is a revolutionary new metallic alloy that offers properties tailored to the end application such as seawater corrosion resistance, thermal conductivity and hardness. […]
Reduced drag on pipes
In their paper “Passive control of VIV with drag reduction. J. Fluids and Struct. 15, pp 597-605, 2001” J.C.Owen, P.W.Bearman and A.A.Szewczyk, talk about drag […]
OTEC based power for ocean nitrogen fertilisation
Engineering students from The University of Sydney have devised a scheme to produce reactive nitrogen for fertilization of the ocean from an OTEC plant. They […]
Burn billions of tons of coal where it lies?
Companies and government administration determined to not give up on coal as a major energy source has come up with a new scheme to burn […]
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 […]
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 […]