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NELHA opens new deep ocean pipeline
NELHA has opened the new 55-inch pipeline which pumps water from 900 meters (3000 feet) reports Pacific Business News [cached]. According to the article, the majority of the capacity of the new pipeline will primarily be used by the deep sea water bottlers and aquaculture businesses. The deep water is 4°C (39°F), which makes the water perfect for an OTEC installation.
posted by bjelkeman at 18:25

Philippines investigating OTEC
The Philippine Department of Energy, with the help of Japanese scientists, have identified 16 potential locations for OTEC power plants in the Philippines, according to the Philippine government information agency PIA [cached]. This is part of the government target to "double the renewable energy capacity by 2013 - from the present 30 to 60 percent".
posted by bjelkeman at 07:45

Saga University wins price for OTEC
According to Earthvision [cached] the Japan Association for the 2005 World Exposition has selected Saga University's OTEC efforts as one of the 100 price winners for global technologies that "contribute significantly to the resolution of global environmental issues and to the creation of a sustainable future for humankind and the Earth."
posted by bjelkeman at 15:40

NELHA's best selling products, from fossil fuel
MSNBC has an article about NELHA [cached], Hawaii, and the problems NELHA tenants face with increasing energy prices and lower subsidies for the science and technolgy park. It is deeply ironic that one of the main issues is rising energy costs, as NELHA previously hosted the worlds longest running OTEC plants. Even more ironic is that the biggest selling product from NELHA's industrial resident, Deep SeaWater International is desalinated deep-seawater, sold as bottled water, which uses a reverse osmosis system [cached] most likely running on fossil fuel... If there were OTEC plants operating at NELHA today both energy and distilled seawater would be available without the use of fossil fuel.
posted by bjelkeman at 20:57