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Palau’s government supports OTEC studyMarianas 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.

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Solar boosted OTECAn 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.)

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Auditors descend on NELHAAccording 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.

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Hawaii Energy Options – new blogDoug 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 . . . → Read More: Hawaii Energy Options – new blog

The Power Of The Oceans, by Big GavBig Gav over at the Oil Drum’s Oz/NZ section posted a nice overview of ocean energy. The post later got crossposted over at the Daily Kos, which gives it a bit bigger distribution.

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New website for Seasolar PowerSeasolar Power has a new website with background material on OTEC and information about the company.

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Palau Government want to do OTEC studyAccording to the Micronesian Newspaper Marinas Variety the Government of Palau has submitted a proposal to the US Trade and Development Agency to secure funding for an OTEC study. The budgeted amount for the study is said to be US$ 500,000. According to he article they would limit . . . → Read More: Palau Government want to do OTEC study

NELHA Green Energy Zone web cast, 13 Feb. 2008NELHA will hold a webcast about the Natural Energy Laboratory Hawaii Authority (NELHA) experiments in ocean thermal energy, aquaculture, and renewable energy development on the Island of Hawaii. Presenters include Ron Baird, who is the executive director of NELHA and Will Rolston who is the manager . . . → Read More: NELHA Green Energy Zone web cast, 13 Feb. 2008

Can Hawaii get out of the carbon rut?Lawrence Downes writes a short opinion piece in the New York Times about the be or not to be of renewable energy in the blessed islands of Hawaii. Lawrence says It’s almost embarrassing how green things could be in blue Hawaii. There’s all that sunshine and those . . . → Read More: Can Hawaii get out of the carbon rut?

OTEC well received at at Philippines Energy Summit The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports that OTEC was well received by the Philippine President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, at the Philippine Energy Summit, which is being held in Manilla this week. The country supposedly suffers from some of the highest electricity prices in Asia.

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