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Wednesday, June 01, 2005
OCEES International and Diego Garcia OTEC
 In the recent article in Wired about OTEC, OCEES International is mentioned to not only have secured funding from "Pentagon" to build an OTEC at Diego Garcia, but also design the OTEC pipe for the Saipan project in the article. However, after asking Stephen Oney, Vice president at OCEES, he tells me that Wired overstated the situation. They are working on a preliminary design of an OTEC for the the Office of Naval Research. Stephen Oney also said: "If we are able to come up with an economically and technically viable project, which we feel we can, then we may begin negotiations for developing the commercial project. To date, we have no deal with the Pentagon to build a system." Furthermore they are not doing the "pipe work" for the Saipan project.
Report from Energy Ocean 2005
 The Energy Ocean 2005 conference was held in April in Washington D.C., and Richard Meyer, the president at the Ocean Energy Council has written a brief review of the conference. Richard says among other things: "While having congressional support is obviously useful, I reminded the attendees that the original Ocean Energy Council, over 20 years ago, concentrated all of its efforts on lobbying, succeeded in having 2 major OTEC bills signed into law, only to have ‘the plug pulled’ by a new administration which dissolved all renewable energy support." Read more. |
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