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Boosting OTEC with solar thermal
Dr. Noboru Yamada, from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, earlier this year sent me a conference paper regarding "Thermal efficiency enhancement of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) using solar thermal energy" by him and his colleagues Akira Hoshi and Yasuyuki Ikegami. I neglected to put this into the library, but now it is there.

Labels: otec, solar thermal

posted by bjelkeman at 09:22

Xenesys OTEC demonstration model
I recently found this short YouTube video of the Xenesys OTEC demonstration model.

posted by bjelkeman at 17:54

New Scientist on OTEC
New Scientist has a two page article on OTEC in the latest issue (19 Nov. 2008). The article mostly talks about issues related to the recent announcements that Lookheed will build a 10-20 MW OTEC in Hawaii, which we mentioned the other day.

Labels: hawaii, lockheed martin, new scientist, otec

posted by bjelkeman at 19:11

OTEC News subscription
If you are using the OTEC News subscription services then you will have missed the latest post about the Hawaii Governor press release. We are in the middle of migrating our mail server infrastructure. You will find that the new subscription list sits at GreenOcean instead of Zezame, Inc. where we had it previously. Thanks to the Zezame people for letting us user their server as long as we did.

Labels: otec news

posted by bjelkeman at 14:07

Hawaii OTEC
Doug Carlsson at Hawaii Energy Options was the first of several people to highlight that the Hawaii governor announced that Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the Lockheed Martin Corporation is going to build a 10 MW OTEC plant on Hawaii. What is interesting is that they are not announcing where, although one may presume it is at NELHA. Also it is going to be interesting to see how this announcement affects the smaller OTEC development companies, such as OCEES and Sea Solar Power, who have been holding the flame alive whilst OTEC was out in the oil induced cold.
Edit: An unconfirmed report mentions Oahu as the location for the OTEC plant.

Labels: hawaii, ITRI, lockheed martin, otec

posted by bjelkeman at 09:34