OTEC News

Fuel cell and battery improvements Octane fuel cells Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have invented a fuel cell that will run on pure Octane (C8H18), emitting only water and carbon dioxide as exhaust. The fuel cell promises a high efficiency, about 50%, which it achieves by making the system a combined hydrogen reformer . . . → Read More:

Xenesys charging aheadAs you can see for yourself in today’s news posts, Xenesys of Japan are really charging ahead on the OTEC front. They now even have the attention of the head of state of one of the worlds largest economies, Japan. After the US DOE completely lost the plot, the state of Hawaii, . . . → Read More:

Tokyo Governor intends to build OTECAccording to several newspaper quotations from Xenesys, Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara visited the Japanese Prime Minister to gain support for building an OTEC power plant in the vicinity of Okinotorishima Island (under the jurisdiction of Ogasawara Village, Tokyo). The Prime Minister is reported to have said, “I’ll leave it . . . → Read More:

Extracts from Mauritius newspapersXenesys has translated several extracts from several Mauritius newspapers which I am posting in full here:

January 9, 2005 Newspaper “Week end ” – Ocean Energy to produce electricity.[Article extract] OTEC should be the main attraction of the fair held at Free Port Center. Considered as a revolutionary system for production . . . → Read More:

Xenesys demonstrates OTEC for several heads of statePossibly for the first time ever have several heads of state had a demonstration of OTEC. Xenesys exhibited a demonstration OTEC plant at the SIDS 2005 conference in Mauritius (the United Nations conference for Small Island Developing States) held 10-14 January, 2005. Among the visitors to their . . . → Read More:

Energy Ocean 2005Richard Meyer of Ocean Energy Council reminds us that Energy Ocean 2005 will happen in in Washington, D.C., 26-28th April. There are many interesting talks on the program. For example: Non-equatorial OTEC applications, Economic risk analysis of ocean energy projects, OTEC film festival, How developments in climate change regulation will impact on . . . → Read More: