Archive for category Ocean Thermal

Hawaiian Islands to have Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Power Plants

Posted by Mike in Ocean Thermal on August 4, 2010

According to a team of researchers at the University of Hawaii, the leeward side of Hawaiian Islands could be a perfect place for the installation of ocean-based renewable energy plants. These plants will use seawater from the oceans’ depths to generate steady amounts of renewable energy and drive massive heat engines. The technology is based [...]

New SOLO-TREC Thermal Engine Powers Ship Indefinitely by Using Ocean Energy

Posted by Ovidiu in New Inventions, Ocean Thermal on April 10, 2010

The Office of Naval Research is funding a project called “SOLO-TREC” (Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangian Observer — Thermal RECharging), that uses the temperature difference in layers of the ocean to generate electricity and propel a ship theoretically indefinitely.

OTEC: Lockheed Martin Studies Ocean Energy Production Tech

Posted by Ovidiu in Ocean Thermal on November 21, 2008

Lockheed Martin, who is specialized in building rockets and aircraft engines, is surprisingly taking over this niche of energy production. They spent the last year studying how to make a big and long fiberglass pipe to sink it into the ocean.