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Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks The TEO C Liaison NSU Digital Collections 7-1-1981 Volume 5, Number 7 (July 1981) The olS ar Ocean Energy Liaison Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_otec-liaison Part of the Energy Policy Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Natural Resources Management and Policy Commons, Oceanography Commons, Oil, Gas, and Energy Commons, Science and Technology Studies Commons, and the Water Resource Management Commons NSUWorks Citation The oS lar Ocean Energy Liaison, "Volume 5, Number 7 (July 1981)" (1981). The OTEC Liaison. 47. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_otec-liaison/47 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the NSU Digital Collections at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The OTEC Liaison by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INCORPORATING Solar The OTEC Liaison OCEAN E-NERGY VOLUME 5 NUMBER 7 Liaison July 1981 DOE'S OTEC FUNDING FOR Congressman D'Amours' letter further HAWAII AWARDED MAJOR FY 1982 SET AT $25 MILLION stated: "It should be noted that in the Ap NEW OTEC PROJECT propriations Committee's report to Con Washington DC: Senator Spark Matsu As of mid-August, US Department of gress, the Committee wrote that it was naga (D-Hawaii) announced July 1st that Energy funding forOTEC for Fiscal Year their intention in supporting the OTEC the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 1982 seemed certain at $25 million, with study activities to be carried out in Fiscal Administration (NOAA) has selected the a $6.3 million budget earmarked for the Year 1982 to encourage and assist industry Hawaiian Dredging and Construction Com Pilot Plant PON, Phase I. Reconciliation in preparing the necessary data for possible pany, a subsidiary of the Dillingham Cor between the House and the Senate arrived presentation to private financing of pilot poration of Honolulu, as the lead company at the $25 million total in early August, plant construction. It is Congress's inten for the $7.6 million Ocean Thermal En with the appropriation process expected tion to fund OTEC in order that ocean ergy Conversion (OTEC) cold-water-pipe to be completed by the end of FY 1981 industries will, in future years, be able to at- sea project. This is the second largest (September 30th). obtain the necessary private capital to con OTEC project ever awarded, and the larg Awards for Phase I (the exact number struct OTEC plants." est directly involving a Hawaii firm, said as yet undetermined) are expected in Sep Matsunaga. tember, but final contracts are not expect A $600,000 contract has been let for ed to be signed until late fall, following ne the design phase of the project. The NOAA gotiations with the awardees. Th is was the OTEC LICENSING REGULATIONS Office of Ocean Technology and Engineer time frame predicted by this publication FINALIZED AND PUBLISHED ing Services, which will oversee the test, in our August 1980 issue. The final budget noted that an estimated $7 million has also of $25 million was also predicted, in our The National Oceanic and Atmospheric been allotted for pipe construction, plat March and May issues. Administration (NOAA) has published the form alterations, instrumentation, deploy In a letter to OE's editor dated August final regulations for the licensing of OTEC ment and testing of the pipe, and data 5th, Congressman Normar.t E. D'Amours, facilities and plantships. This final rule, analysis. The pipe itself will be 10 feet in Chairman of the House Subcommittee on which appeared in the July 31st, 1981 Fed diameter and 1,000 feet long and will be Oceanography, advised that the House, on eral Register, established details of a licens built out of fiberglass. July 24th, voted 244-104 in favor of HR ing system for ownership, construction, lo "Although at first the Reagan Admin 4144, the Energy and Water Appropria- cation, and operation of OTEC facilities istration was not aware of the potential tions Bill funding OTEC at a level of $29.3 affiliated with the United States_ Copies of OTEC has for the nation, there seems to million in FY1982. This included $6.3 mil the document can be obtained from the be growing acceptance of the concept, not lion "for Phase I and commencement of NOAA Office of Ocean Minerals and En only for electricity, but also for fertilizer Phase II of the design competition for an ergy, 2001 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, production, hydrogen, and synthetic fuel," OTEC pilot plant." Washington DC 20235. Matsunaga remarked. "Approval of this major project is certainly a promising sig nal that support is building within the Ad ministration for this renewable energy al ternative. "Well, Let' 5 Call it "House action last week provided a sum the Seacoast Test Facility" ... of $25 million to carryon the OTEC pro gram in Fiscal Year 1982. Earlier last month the Senate also had authorized $25 million for ocean systems. "One of the high-priority expenditures recommended for appropriation by Con gress is $6.3 million to carry out Phases One and Two of the Department of Energy Program Opportunity Notice to let out conceptual design studies for a 40-mega watt OTEC pilot plant," said Matsunaga. Nine proposals were submitted, with three identifying Hawaii as the test site. The Dillingham Corporation is in separate consortia with General Electric and TRW/ Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation for the Program Opportunity Notice compe tition. "To assist in these design efforts, it was necessary for the at-sea test of the cold water pipe to be approved," the Hawaii lawmaker explained. [See "Cartoon Credit ", Page 2J (continued on Page 2) (continued from Page 1) OCEAN ENERGY COUNCIL Solar The objectives of the test are: (1) to NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS scale at 1/3 an OTEC pilot plant (40- OCEAN ENERGY megawatt "size) floating platform, pipe, The Board of Directors of the Ocean Liaison mooring system, and oceanographic load Energy Council (OEC) has decided to ex ing (waves and currents); (2) to validate pand to nine directors for a term of one INCORPORATING the OTEC cold-water-pipe design method year. The directors are elected as individ ology; and (3) to demonstrate fiberglass uals active in the ocean-energy/OTEC The OTEC Liaison reinforced-plastic technology for large community. Their affiliations, as indicated diameter OTEC pipes. The results of the below, are for identification purposes only. AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER test will be supplied to the designers of ENGAGED AS LIAISON FOR ALL floating-platform OTEC pilot plants. Jack F. Babbitt (Devco International FORMS OF SOLAR ENERGY FROM Hawaiian Dredging and Construction Incorporated) THE SEA, I~CLUDING: will be working with Ershigs Incorporated OTEC (Bellingham, Washington), pipe construc Richard E. Bell (Hawaiian Electric Com (OCEAN THERMAL tion; Guralnick and Associates (San Fran pany Incorporated) ENERGY CONVERSION) cisco), design and validation; SEACO In WAVE - TIDAL - CURRENT corporated (Kailua, Hawaii), instrumenta Robert H. Douglass (TRW Incorporated) OFFSHORE WIND - BIOMASS tion; and Dillingham Maritime (Honolulu), SALINITY GRADIENTS platform conversion. E. Don Farthing (TRW Incorporated) VOLUME 5 NUMBER 7 ~~--------------- Evans J. Francis (Applied Physics Lab July 1981 oratory, Johns Hopkins University) NAMES IN THE NEWS Malcolm S. Jones, Jr. (Ebasco Services EDITOR/PUBLISHER Richard A. Frank, former administrator Incorporated) Richard Arlen Meyer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has joined the Richard A. Meyer (Solar OCEAN EN TYPESETTER Washington law firm of Ginsburg, Feld ERGY Liaison) AND COPY EDITOR man, Weil, and Bress. Shelly Treshansky Dr. Roger L. Potash, formerly with the Frederick E. Naef (Lockheed Missiles Ocean Systems Division of Lockheed Mis and Space Company) ART DIRECTOR siles and Space Company for nin-e years, Pamela Greenfield during which he acquired extensive OTEC Jay E. Yaffo (Ocean Thermal Corpo R&D experience, has joined the firm of ration) SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER David J. Seymour Ltd, Naval Architects Mildred Ward and Marine Consultants, as principal asso The present officers of the OEC are ciate. Frederick E. Naef, President, and Richard RESEARCH A. Meyer, Secretary/Treasurer. Myron H. Patricia Belisonzi The Timothy Simons-Slattery Memorial Nordquist (Nossaman, Krueger, and Marsh) Fund has been established in memory of is Legal Counsel. OCEAN ENERGY the son of Pat Slattery of Ebasco Services, is published monthly by Popular Products who passed away in April. 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