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Ammonia Fuel Network Conference - 2008
The Oil Drum has an overview written up by Neal Rauhauser from the Ammonia Fuel Network Conference, which was held at University of Minnesota recently. The conference presentations can be downloaded as well.

Labels: ammonia, fertiliser, fuel, otec

posted by bjelkeman at 10:10

OTEC in the Bahamas?
According to this blog post one OTEC company, OCEES, submitted a proposal to the Bahamas Electricity Corporation with regards to a recent Request For Proposal for renewable energy systems.

Labels: bahamas, ocees, otec

posted by bjelkeman at 12:55

Energy Island at US-China GreenTech Summit
Energy Island will be presenting their concept at US China GreenTech Summit in Shanghai, 12-14 November. Energy Island plans to use OTEC as part of the energy generation systems.

Labels: energy island, otec

posted by bjelkeman at 12:38

OTEC implementation in Tahiti starts
According to a press notice on their web site Xenesys have announced that they are going to start the commercial implementation of OTEC in Tahiti. According to the notice, the news was released at a symposium at Saga University on the 17 October. It is unclear if this announcement adds anything significant to what we wrote about earlier. If what is reported is correct though, then it seems that they haven't decided on a location yet.

Labels: otec, tahiti, xenesys

posted by bjelkeman at 10:23

Xenesys starts joint venture in Tahiti
We missed in August that Xenesys signed a deal with Pacific Petroleum Company for a joint venture "to conduct commercial and technical studies to realize Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) in French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu."

Labels: otec, tahiti, xenesys

posted by bjelkeman at 10:54

New York Times writes about Lockheed Martin OTEC project
The NYT picked up on the Lockheed Martin press release about the grant from the US Department of Energy to "demonstrate a cold water pipe fabrication approach using modern fiberglass technology and recent low-cost composite material manufacturing methods at prototype and pilot plant scales". The Energy Daily also has some quotes from Lookheed Martin and indications that they are also working with Makai Ocean Engineering and others on this.

Labels: cold water pipe, lockheed martin, makai, otec

posted by bjelkeman at 10:22