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Palau’s government supports OTEC studyMarianas Variety reports that the island nation of Palau’s government has passed a resolution to perform a feasibility study for OTEC for the island. A request for US$ 500,000 has supposedly been made to the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) to support the study.

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Solar boosted OTECAn interesting theoretical paper on solar boosted OTEC [PDF] systems by Noboru Yamada, Akira Hoshi and Yasuyuki Ikegami, the latter working at Institute of Ocean Energy of Saga University, Japan. (I wish IOE hadn’t abandoned their English language site.)

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Auditors descend on NELHAAccording to an article in West Hawaii Today the state auditors will resolve whether NELHA is overcharging for its deep water to the mariculture tenants or not. The rising costs have been an issue for some time and now it seems the issue is coming to a head.

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Hawaii Energy Options – new blogDoug Carlson writes a new blog on the energy situation in Hawaii. This could be interesting, as Hawaii has some of the best reasons in the world to become first with OTEC. They have the right environmental conditions, the expertise and a need. The question is do they have . . . → Read More: Hawaii Energy Options – new blog