To clarify matters, I thought I’d respond to two recent comments from attack-dog MarcoPolo, who writes: It would be more honest if would admit your pecuniary relationship with the technologies you write about. and
Tag: OTEC
Geothermal Costs Coming Down, Along with All Others Flavors of Renewable Energy
Gary Tulie, who made huge contributions to Bullish on Renewable Energy, points out, “One of the technologies discussed was Spallation Drilling (pictured) – a technique for speeding up drilling through hard rock for use in geothermal projects. The use of …
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Is Bound To Have Unintended Consequences
2GreenEnergy Supporter Cameron Atwood sent me this piece on OTEC, and writes: Interesting. Yes, that IS interesting. There definitely will be unintended consequences (assuming that OTEC ever comes along). Some of these, however, will be good, or at least have …
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Financing of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Projects
A reader offers this comment on my belief that ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) can represent a cost-effective way to deliver clean energy to the equatorial regions of the world. He writes: (OTEC) will require an investor with deep pockets …
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The U.S. Electorate Accepts the Reality of Climate Disruption
Last evening, I had a couple of beers with one of my favorite clients, who happens to be involved in ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), one of the cutting-edge renewable energy technologies. Insofar as OTEC delivers baseload (uninterrupted, 24/7) power, …
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Chris Barry, OTEC, and Carbon Sequestration
Chris Barry is definitely on my “visit list” for my next trip back to the East Coast. Chris is a Senior Naval Architect at the United States Coast Guard Surface Forces Logistics Center, and says that after “forty years of …
OTEC and Carbon Sequestration
I spoke with the author of this piece on OTEC and carbon sequestration for almost an hour the other night. But, though OTEC does indeed have the potential to aid in sequestering CO2, this is not really straightforward. The hot layer …
More on Wind Energy vs. Coal-Fired Power Plants
A reader, who happens to be an old friend from my days as a marketing consultant, writes: One of the most useful seminars I ever attended was about rules for introducing a new technology that replaces currently accepted technology. The …
Ocean Energy Is Important, But Faces Stormy Conditions
Here’s another post from the Energy Ocean show in Atlantic City, NJ. As I mentioned earlier, ocean energy in its various forms, including off-shore wind, tidal, ocean current, wave, and OTEC, lacks the maturity of its cousins in renewable energy, e.g., …
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion – Telling the OTEC Story
2014 will be a year that I help my friends at Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation (OTECorp) expand their web presence, chiefly by popularizing their sister site, EmpowerTheOcean.com. My main strategy is video, brought along by social media. Everyone loves video — …
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