The news source for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)

 

This is the OTEC News site. Here you will find information about the latest development around Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) and related subjects, such as environmental impact, mariculture, ocean engineering, global climate change, energy policy, alternative energy and global fresh water supply. OTEC is a clean, infinitely renewable and economic way to produce energy, fresh water and food.

The intent is to report not only on OTEC development, but also on the context of the development of an OTEC power infrastructure. The distinctive feature of OTEC energy systems is that the end products include not only energy in the form of electricity, but several other synergistic products. This means that to successfully implement OTEC power in the next decade, one needs to understand the commercial, environmental and energy-political environment in which OTEC power plants will be built.

High awareness about OTEC among politicians, government administrators, media pundits and industry experts is a key goal to get OTEC power plants built. We believe that OTEC power generation has nowhere near the profile in the media that it needs to have and the OTECnews site is the first in a number of steps we are planning to take to help rectify that.

OTEC News is part of The GreenOcean Project, which is a non profit organization.

Please contact us at editor@OTECnews.org with stories which you want us to cover.

The team

Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson
Thomas is an entrepreneur who has started several computer software companies – Zezame and ISSEL are his latest companies. Over the last fifteen years he has primarily worked with computer software companies, but has recently started to work actively with ocean related energy, food and fresh water technologies and issues. Thomas founded OTECnews in late 2001, a news site about developments in Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, and The GreenOcean Project in 2002. Recently he had the most fun as a production manager on a TV documentary in Mongolia.

Nick Outram
Nick is a Consultant with over a decades experience in the Telecommunications Industry and is the founder of MessageTech Consulting Ltd. His most recent work involved bringing advanced messaging services to the new '3rd generation' video mobiles. He has a strong interest in technologies in general and especially ones that can bring many benefits to mankind in the future. Since reading the book "The Millennial Project" by Marshall T. Savage, in 1996 he has followed developments in OTEC and a number of other key technologies related to mankinds future.

Phil Kopitske
Phil is an engineer and systems analyst both by education and experience. He has years of hands on operating experience with the propulsion plant of a U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier as well as development, research and analysis for companies such as Boeing Military Airplane, Boeing Aerospace and Electronics as well as Rockwell Space Operations. Phil has followed, researched and written about OTEC technology since 1993. more...

We need help

A news site is not worth the disk space it takes up if it doesn't have fresh news on it. Here YOU can provide invaluable help. We need your help with newsworthy items which you come across. Join our news foraging team or contact us about some of the other things we need help with:

• Finding news and articles to link to or publish
• Assemble and author our OTEC FAQ
• Help us assemble an OTEC online and offline library
• Perform interviews and research for interviews with people involved in OTEC and related fields
• Implement a Slashcode based news site