Potentially the largest renewable energy source. In particular, electricity generated from ocean thermal energy in the Gulf of Mexico can be cabled to the U.S. electrical grid at e.g. Tampa, New Orleans, Brownsville from distances of 60 to 100 miles
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Aloha,
This is the last link sent to me by Guy Toyama (Exc. Director - Friends of NELHA) who died suddenly last Sunday.
Check it out.
http://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/_repository/2011//nh3/pdf/Varley.pdf
A hui hou
Russ Robinson
Comment by Tom Bailey on November 16, 2012 at 11:04am Well the election is over and we will be spared from constant TV ads.
Whether the person/party is in office that you wished - at this point is all about ending our political gridlock and let's get moving to solve huge problems!
We need to demand that our politicians COME TOGETHER!
We need to move forward with our energy issues.
What's up with Locheed Martin's pilot plant whose Titanium heat exchanger is being tested at NELHA near Kona Hawaii?
Has anyone seen the paper by Lockheed Martin given at this years Ammonia conference that evaluates the coupling of OTEC with an ammonia production plant?
Russ Robinson - Pickens Plan District Leader HI
Aloha and Haouli Makehiki Haou!
Well, that is my best attempt at spelling the Hawaiian for Happy New Year. Anyway, there was a post in the Huffington about UH at Manoa developing on an idea of a 'land based' OTEC plant. The plant would exploit the average temperature difference between the windward side and the leeward side of the island chain (about 1 degree C). I went to the UH website, but could find no reference to this, however. Also, I think the idea of OTEC could be boosted by using geothermally warmed water in a rising column from the sea bed. Commercial use of geothermal energy has been on-going on the big island of Hawaii (at Apuna), and there is exploratory work on Mauii, but Oahu is deemed as not viable. I think the combination of OTEC and geothermal is another matter, though!
You may also know that UH has been involved in a hydrogen park project to produce hydrogen/fuel cell fuel. Ammonia may be easier to convert ic engines to, but commercial use will probably need scrubbers to remove nitrous oxides from the stack gases.
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