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OTEC News - News about Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)
The Economist has a short piece on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) in the 7 Jan 2012 print edition , Science and technology section. It is a decent overview, but as usual with The Economist, it is very anglocentric in its coverage. There is nothing about the work the Japanese ( research and commercial ), the Indians , the Dutch or the French are doing on the OTEC front. I did get an inquiry regarding this from the article author, and I failed to follow up, but it is all available here on OTEC News. The According to this press release , OTEC International LLC has been selected to build a 1 MW OTEC at NELHA, Hawaii.Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) was conceived of by the French engineer Jacques D’Arsonval in 1881. However, at the time of this writing the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii is home to the only operating experimental OTEC plant on the face of the Earth. OTEC is a potential alternative energy source that needs to be funded and explored much more than it presently is.
