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Palau's government supports OTEC study
Marianas Variety reports that the island nation of Palau's government has passed a resolution to perform a feasibility study for OTEC for the island. A request for US$ 500,000 has supposedly been made to the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) to support the study.

Edit: Thanks to Geoff Wilkie for pointing out that I misspelled Palau.
posted by bjelkeman at 10:00

Solar boosted OTEC
An interesting theoretical paper on solar boosted OTEC [PDF] systems by Noboru Yamada, Akira Hoshi and Yasuyuki Ikegami, the latter working at Institute of Ocean Energy of Saga University, Japan. (I wish IOE hadn't abandoned their English language site.)
posted by bjelkeman at 15:47

Auditors descend on NELHA
According to an article in West Hawaii Today the state auditors will resolve whether NELHA is overcharging for its deep water to the mariculture tenants or not. The rising costs have been an issue for some time and now it seems the issue is coming to a head.

I am sure that the issues are not easy to understand from afar. But to lay the blame at the door of NELHA for failure in making OTEC happen in Hawaii, like Syd Kraul, owner of Pacific Planktonics, seems to be doing in a statement: "I am of the opinion that the aquaculture companies at NELHA have provided financial support for a very costly group of government employees and kept NELHA alive despite their failure in their missions relating to energy" is in my opinion downright churlish or ignorant. The failure to make OTEC happen in the US lies firmly at the door of the Department of Energy and the U.S. government. (Of course, knowing how these things happen, he was probably miss-quoted.)
posted by bjelkeman at 23:05

Hawaii Energy Options - new blog
Doug Carlson writes a new blog on the energy situation in Hawaii. This could be interesting, as Hawaii has some of the best reasons in the world to become first with OTEC. They have the right environmental conditions, the expertise and a need. The question is do they have the political will to become big in green energy?
posted by bjelkeman at 22:45