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OTEC feasability study for Antigua & Barbuda
The AntiguaSun reports that the environment division is in the process of preparing a memorandum of understanding with a US based organisation for an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) feasibility study [cache]. Once government approval is is given the study will be carried out over three months. They do not mention who is going to perform the feasibility study.
posted by bjelkeman at 20:34

Distilled water at NELHA, guaranteed Hawaiian
Several companies are betting that distilled water from NELHA is going to become big business. Pacific Business News reports that NELHA now has a service mark [cached] '100 percent Hawaii Deep Seawater' which producers can use against a royalty per gallon of water produced. There are now three companies that are planning to use the service mark. If they went one step further and used the seawater desalination technology from Seawater Greenhouse to produce the drinking water they would have an environmentally friendly production process as well.
posted by bjelkeman at 11:33

OTEC powerplant for Okinotorishima island gets closer
According to The Yomiuri Shimbun, the island of Okinotorishima will be subject to a joint reserach project by the National Fisheries University, an independent administrative agency and Saga University to assess whether the island is suitable for an OTEC installation [cached]. The project is supposed to start the 10 January 2006 and will involve about 20 people. The team will collect data about temperatures in different layers of water as deep as 1,000 meters, the quality of water, sea floor topography and currents. A report will be compiled by March. As reported earlier Japan is at odds with China over the establishment of exclusive economic zones (EEZ) around the atoll--which is about 11 kilometers in circumference--under the U.N. Convention of the Law of Sea. In other news PESN had a report on Sea Solar Power [cached] yesterday.
posted by bjelkeman at 13:21