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Monday, December 14, 2009
 NOAA bureaucracy a threat to OTEC?Doug Carlsson wonders if NOAA bureaucracy could be a major threat to OTEC implementation? He tells us the grapewine provides the following rumours: "NOAA is so gummed up with bureaucratic inertia due to the ?shell shock? it feels over the enormity of ocean thermal energy conversion that it will demand five years of operating data from even a pilot plant before giving OTEC its regulatory blessing. We would love to hear from anyone who can confirm or deny these fears. Thursday, December 10, 2009
French defence manufacturer working on OTEC?Ares, a blog at Aviation Week, is saying that "Expansion is also planned into the renewable marine energy sector. An ?incubator? will be set up in the Atlantic port of Brest to manage development of floating wind turbine, wave energy turbine, and ocean thermal energy converter demonstrators or prototypes and DCNS will take part in European programs to develop marine current turbines." |
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