OTEC News

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 author. Dr. Vega has worked extensively with OTEC research and is Program Manager at the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (PICHTR). This is an substantial . . . → Read More:

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 shedding, according to researchers at Imperial College in London. More details in their patent application (GB 2 362 938).

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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 place. They anticipate that the pipeline will feed 27,000 gallons a minute of cold, clean, nutrient-rich, deep-sea water to both a conventional OTEC installation as well . . . → Read More:

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 0262082950 is about the current state of the art in hydrogen production, storage and use, the other book Hydrogen as Fuel by Richard Cammack, Michel Frey and . . . → Read More:

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 from the air. Aquarius, the underwater laboratory in Florida uses 25 kilo of chemicals every day. Now Lew Nuckols of the US Navy have figured . . . → Read More: