The paper is also available in PDF format (664 kbyte). This paper is part of our introduction, What is OTEC? , and Dr. Vega kindly gave us the permission to republish this paper on the OTECnews site. Dr. Luis Vega has worked extensively with OTEC research and is Program Manager at the  Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (PICHTR)

Stuart Ridgway, who worked on Mist lift OTEC in the early '80s has published a new paper on the feasibility of Mist lift OTEC in the light of the increasing costs of keeping fossil fuels as the primary energy source for the world.

Dominic Michaelis the co-designer of the Energy Island OTEC platform concept, together with Jerome Tomasi have written a paper which compares the costs of using reverse osmosis to make fresh water from seawater with the cost of doing the same with an open cycle OTEC plant.

"I have decided to abstract my many collected articles on the subject of OTEC plants. I’ve collected about 11 designs to date, which I plan to summarize for you following the pattern that I’ve established in the Sea Solar Power articles. Since most of these designs have not been built, you can take their estimated costs with a grain of salt, but you may find the designs themselves inspiring." - Phil Kopitske

Sea Solar Power OTEC designs

Sea Solar Power 10 MW shorebased OTEC design
Sea Solar Power 100 MW hybrid cycle OTEC plantship design

Tokyo Electric Power Company / Toshiba OTEC designs

The Tokyo Electric / Toshiba 100 kW OTEC pilot plant and 2.5 MW design

The Energy Ocean 2005 conference was held in April in Washington D.C., and Richard Meyer, the president at the Ocean Energy Council has written a brief review of the conference. Richard says among other things: "While having congressional support is obviously useful, I reminded the attendees that the original Ocean Energy Council, over 20 years ago, concentrated all of its efforts on lobbying, succeeded in having 2 major OTEC bills signed into law, only to have ‘the plug pulled’ by a new administration which dissolved all renewable energy support."

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