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		<title>By: Australia Rides the Tide Toward A Wave Energy Future</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-128351</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Australia Rides the Tide Toward A Wave Energy Future]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] population centers. The study mainly cited tidal energy, but also examined the niche potential of ocean thermal power to supply local power needs along the northern Queensland coast. Australian wave energy [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] population centers. The study mainly cited tidal energy, but also examined the niche potential of ocean thermal power to supply local power needs along the northern Queensland coast. Australian wave energy [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Dietrich Von Bacon</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-128248</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dietrich Von Bacon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well this all sounds super fantastic. How much power will it take to pump all the water? Would there be an energy deficit by just moving the water alone? Take into account the minor change in temperature and enthalpy along with mechanical losses and I have a hard time seeing this come to fruition. Good luck to them but I wouldn&#039;t put my money into this idea. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well this all sounds super fantastic. How much power will it take to pump all the water? Would there be an energy deficit by just moving the water alone? Take into account the minor change in temperature and enthalpy along with mechanical losses and I have a hard time seeing this come to fruition. Good luck to them but I wouldn&#8217;t put my money into this idea. </p>
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		<title>By: Precious Metals from Nautilus Minerals: a New Frontier - CleanTechnica</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-120899</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Precious Metals from Nautilus Minerals: a New Frontier - CleanTechnica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] will be provided by conventional means, but we can anticipate a time when floating wind turbines or OTEC may be moved to a site and provide power for the operation. This may cut power costs and be another [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] will be provided by conventional means, but we can anticipate a time when floating wind turbines or OTEC may be moved to a site and provide power for the operation. This may cut power costs and be another [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: EV Heating (and Cooling) Could Revolutionize Energy Use - CleanTechnica</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-115415</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EV Heating (and Cooling) Could Revolutionize Energy Use - CleanTechnica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] principal involved is enormously important for all sorts of alternative energy applications, like OTEC, ground-source heat pumps (aka geothermal heating), dry-well geothermal electric generation. And [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] principal involved is enormously important for all sorts of alternative energy applications, like OTEC, ground-source heat pumps (aka geothermal heating), dry-well geothermal electric generation. And [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Lockheed Martin and U.S. Navy Develop New Clean Ocean Energy System</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-113593</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lockheed Martin and U.S. Navy Develop New Clean Ocean Energy System]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] to Oak Ridge National Laboratory&#8217;s Jim Pearce, ocean thermal conversion (OTEC) systems located in tropical waters could generate up to five terawatts of power without affecting [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] to Oak Ridge National Laboratory&#8217;s Jim Pearce, ocean thermal conversion (OTEC) systems located in tropical waters could generate up to five terawatts of power without affecting [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Wayne Baumunk</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-108596</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wayne Baumunk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wayne Baumunk, Guam Island, crmcsrvc@teleguam.net  Tinian Island sits on the edge of the Marians Trench, cold seawater is withing 1KM, land bassed 5MW unit would power most of the island.  Generated fresh water could be used by residents.  US Military could use gathered data.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wayne Baumunk, Guam Island, <a href="mailto:crmcsrvc@teleguam.net">crmcsrvc@teleguam.net</a>  Tinian Island sits on the edge of the Marians Trench, cold seawater is withing 1KM, land bassed 5MW unit would power most of the island.  Generated fresh water could be used by residents.  US Military could use gathered data.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-107226</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change, in the way we create electricity and power our vehicles, is likely to come via economics.

Coal is an expensive way to make electricity (if you add in the tax dollars paid for health issues and the extra health insurance premiums).

New nuclear is very expensive.

Oil is expensive and will continue to get more expensive.

Wind is one of the two cheapest ways to make electricity, if we&#039;re talking new generation and not power from older paid off plants.  Natural gas is the other cheapest way, but that price will rise.

Solar is rapidly dropping in price and should become as cheap, or cheaper, than wind.

Running an EV on electricity costs about 1/4th as much as running the average US car on gasoline.

It will take a little more time to get EV batteries down in price, but we should hit a point where EVs are cheaper than gas/diesel cars to purchase. 
Over the next few years economics alone will move us from fossil fuels to
renewables.  Of course, we need to speed that transition via
social/political means because we are creating a major problem for the
entire planet if we keep burning fossil fuels.

A bit of social/political push in terms of putting some sort of price on
carbon and keeping subsidies in place for renewables/EVs would speed us to
the point where economics, alone, will finish the job.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Change, in the way we create electricity and power our vehicles, is likely to come via economics.</p>
<p>Coal is an expensive way to make electricity (if you add in the tax dollars paid for health issues and the extra health insurance premiums).</p>
<p>New nuclear is very expensive.</p>
<p>Oil is expensive and will continue to get more expensive.</p>
<p>Wind is one of the two cheapest ways to make electricity, if we&#8217;re talking new generation and not power from older paid off plants.  Natural gas is the other cheapest way, but that price will rise.</p>
<p>Solar is rapidly dropping in price and should become as cheap, or cheaper, than wind.</p>
<p>Running an EV on electricity costs about 1/4th as much as running the average US car on gasoline.</p>
<p>It will take a little more time to get EV batteries down in price, but we should hit a point where EVs are cheaper than gas/diesel cars to purchase.<br />
Over the next few years economics alone will move us from fossil fuels to<br />
renewables.  Of course, we need to speed that transition via<br />
social/political means because we are creating a major problem for the<br />
entire planet if we keep burning fossil fuels.</p>
<p>A bit of social/political push in terms of putting some sort of price on<br />
carbon and keeping subsidies in place for renewables/EVs would speed us to<br />
the point where economics, alone, will finish the job.</p>
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		<title>By: Breath on the Wind</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-107217</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Breath on the Wind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great comment Bruce.  I would agree that for change to be truly effective it must come from within each of us.  

But you might take a breath.  Sometimes change is inspired also by a change in the environment:  our laws, social standards and changes in our physical environment.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great comment Bruce.  I would agree that for change to be truly effective it must come from within each of us.  </p>
<p>But you might take a breath.  Sometimes change is inspired also by a change in the environment:  our laws, social standards and changes in our physical environment.</p>
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		<title>By: Bruce Miller</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-107216</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The creation of the poisons from the fission of Uranium is far too dangerous for humanity. It must be stopped - world wide - but not by force, rather by reason, and the freely giving of Thorium fueled fission technologies for cheap energy for all mankind. Will China once she perfects this new &#039;Fire&quot; do just that, as she builds her Pan-Eurasian Empire? Will she burn off the dangerous &quot;spent fuel&quot; from Uranium fission, reducing it to harmless substances in only three hundred years, and save mankind from the voracious sociopaths in America still flogging their death to humanity akin to the Fuckoshima experience, to an unsuspecting world? Solar, Wave, Wind, hydro, Tidal, Geothermal, Gobar gas, bio-mass, now this Ocean thermal free safe domestic energy can replace the horrendous American lifestyles with a softer quieter way, now that technologies have risen , humanity has grown, and as we speak, we see this change occurring on the streets of even the U.S.A. Will she redeem herself, suffer the gut wrenching paradigm shift away from McMansions and SUV&#039;s towards public transportation, medical care with communal leverage, and an economics that shares the wealth melodramatically - Yes it is inevitable, and by the hand of good people, not government decree.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The creation of the poisons from the fission of Uranium is far too dangerous for humanity. It must be stopped &#8211; world wide &#8211; but not by force, rather by reason, and the freely giving of Thorium fueled fission technologies for cheap energy for all mankind. Will China once she perfects this new &#8216;Fire&#8221; do just that, as she builds her Pan-Eurasian Empire? Will she burn off the dangerous &#8220;spent fuel&#8221; from Uranium fission, reducing it to harmless substances in only three hundred years, and save mankind from the voracious sociopaths in America still flogging their death to humanity akin to the Fuckoshima experience, to an unsuspecting world? Solar, Wave, Wind, hydro, Tidal, Geothermal, Gobar gas, bio-mass, now this Ocean thermal free safe domestic energy can replace the horrendous American lifestyles with a softer quieter way, now that technologies have risen , humanity has grown, and as we speak, we see this change occurring on the streets of even the U.S.A. Will she redeem herself, suffer the gut wrenching paradigm shift away from McMansions and SUV&#8217;s towards public transportation, medical care with communal leverage, and an economics that shares the wealth melodramatically &#8211; Yes it is inevitable, and by the hand of good people, not government decree.</p>
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		<title>By: Breath on the Wind</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-104871</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Breath on the Wind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This company is very new but supported by almost 40 years of government research.   With the R &amp; D essentially paid for their future their future looks very bright, however they will still be subject to the same funding and management issues of any new company.  So far they have these two projects on their books.  This will tend to sharpen the the focus of the Pa. based company.  Their mission statement does suggest that they will be very interested in SE Asia, Indonesia and even Micronesia.    ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This company is very new but supported by almost 40 years of government research.   With the R &amp; D essentially paid for their future their future looks very bright, however they will still be subject to the same funding and management issues of any new company.  So far they have these two projects on their books.  This will tend to sharpen the the focus of the Pa. based company.  Their mission statement does suggest that they will be very interested in SE Asia, Indonesia and even Micronesia.    </p>
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		<title>By: Adrian Slew</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-104860</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adrian Slew]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone know if Thailand is considering this technology? Might be good for the country.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone know if Thailand is considering this technology? Might be good for the country.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://cleantechnica.com/2011/09/23/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion/#comment-104833</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news for Indonesia.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good news for Indonesia.</p>
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