OTEC News

Changes to OTECnewsYou can now subscribe to OTECnews via email. Ever day there is a new piece of news on OTECnews you can receive it in your email inbox. As if that wasn’t enough, we have also added a most excellent search facility to the site. Thanks to Zezame for making the mailing list . . . → Read More:

Depleted Atlantic fish stocks The Economist reports on research performed by academics at the University of British Columbia which shows in detail how the fish stocks of the Northern Atlantic collapsed in the ’80s and ’90s. There are now stringent quotas for the collapsed fish stock, but they are not recovering. The top predators . . . → Read More:

The Tokyo Electric / Toshiba 100 kW OTEC pilot plant A 100 kW OTEC pilot plant was constructed in the Republic of Nauru by Tokyo Electric Power Company and Toshiba Corporation. Operation of the OTEC began in October 1981 with the purpose of validating the design, and developing a 2.5 MW conceptual design using . . . → Read More:

Tuvalu pays the price for global warming Countries disappearing due to raising sea levels seemed only to be part of future scenarios of the Global Business Network as featured in Wired Magazine. Not so. The future is here. Tuvalu will be evacuating its first citizens to New Zealand next year. The UK’s Guardian . . . → Read More:

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 University have performed with regards to using plankton blooming as a carbon sink to reduce CO2 in the earths atmosphere. The model . . . → Read More:

Sea Solar Power 100 MW hybrid cycle OTEC plantship The SSP 100 MW Plantship, which also produces 32 million gallons per day (120,000 m3) desalinated water, uses the same aluminum heat exchanger tube, vapor turbine, and deaeration air compressor technology as the SSP 10 MW shore based technology demonstration plant. Like the 10 MW . . . → Read More:

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 capital and construction partnerships covering development and production of the first unit are already in place. Estimated cost in . . . → Read More:

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 not quite figure out if this is a new paper or not, it seems like webserver thinks the file was modified in August 2001. . . . → Read More:

In the Pipeline The January 2002 issue of NEHLA’s newsletter Pipeline is out.

As usual, NEHLA Pipeline contains a whole host of insight into running a shorebased seawater pumping facility, and the lessons learned apply regardless of what you do with the water once it arrives from the deep. Worth reading.

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