Indian ocean islands interested in OTEC
According to an article from last year in the Indian publication Business Line, Dr. Harsh K. Gupta, The Secretary, Union Department of Ocean Development (DoD), […]
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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 […]
IOA Spring 2002 newsletter
The International OTEC/DOWA Association OTEC news letter spring 2002 edition is out. In it you will find articles about the NELHA pipeline deployment, Energy Islands […]
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 […]
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 […]
Doubts about plankton as a carbon sink
New Scientist (16 January 2002) reports from the recent Ocean Sciences meeting in Hawaii about new computer simulations which Jorge Sarmiento and colleagues from Princeton […]
Sea Solar Power 10 MW Hybrid Cycle shore based OTEC
This OTEC, representing the first and possibly smallest commercially viable design is currently undergoing component level validation in York, Pennsylvania, prior to first installation. Venture […]
Fresh water from the sea
Saga University presents a new paper: Technology of Seawater Desalination Using Natural Energy using OTEC technology for the The 3rd World Water Forum. I can […]