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OTEC returns to the world's energy agenda?
According to energy analyst Andrew McKillop, OTEC may be returning to the world's energy agenda. He writes briefly about this in an interesting article about Economy restructuring and peak oil [cached].

Andrew says: "It can be noted that OTEC or ocean thermal energy conversion is yet again a ‘tropical country resource’, or potential resource especially suited to integration with ocean fish farming or mariculture. Current interest in, and development effort in both these domains (large-scale regional hydropower, OTECs and mariculture) are almost non-existent but this in now way reduces their huge potential, as with geothermal energy."
posted by bjelkeman at 16:53

NELHA is seeking its next CEO
The Pacific Business News (Honolulu) [cached] say that the former Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii (NELHA) CEO, Jeff Smith, recently resigned to operate a NELHA tenant company. NELHA is now looking to replace him, preferably with someone local and or an Hawaii expatriate who is living on the mainland, but want to return to the islands.

NELHA is a research facility and business incubator that hosts companies that work with primarily mariculture and other seawater related products. NELHA hosted some of the first operational OTEC pilot project plants during the eighties.
posted by bjelkeman at 16:11

OTEC library online!
The OTEC library is now online. The first few OTEC documents are available on the new GreenOcean / OTECnews content server. It will take some time for us to get all documents online. There will be a steady trickle of documents for some time. As usual, you can find a listing of the hardcopy documents we have as well. These, and more, are the documents we are currently scanning to bring online.

Note: The IP address for the content server will change to something more permanent over the next month, so don't be surprised if you need to change the address where you reach it.
posted by bjelkeman at 15:07

Xenesys talks to UNCSD
According to Xenesys, on the 27 April this year in New York, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and interested parties decided to set up a working group to promote OTEC. Supposedly the group should be set up by the end of the year.
posted by bjelkeman at 13:45

Xenesys announces DTEC
Xenesys has developed a Discharged Thermal Energy Conversion system which they say can generate electric power and/or produce desalinated water, from waste heat in various kinds of industrial plants. They say that they are going to introduce a DTEC system in an existing oil refinery in Chiba, Japan. Furthermore, they are setting up joint venture in Saudi Arabia, supposedly to supply DTEC systems in the Kingdom.
posted by bjelkeman at 13:36