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Nova Southeastern UniversityNSUWorksThe OTEC Liaison NSU Digital Collections12-1-1979Volume 3, Number 12 (December 1979)The Solar Ocean Energy LiaisonFollow this and additional works at: http://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_otec-liaisonPart of the Energy Policy Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Natural ResourcesManagement and Policy Commons, Oceanography Commons, Oil, Gas, and Energy Commons,Science and Technology Studies Commons, and the Water Resource Management CommonsThis Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the NSU Digital Collections at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in TheOTEC Liaison by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact nsuworks@nova.edu.NSUWorks CitationThe Solar Ocean Energy Liaison, "Volume 3, Number 12 (December 1979)" (1979). The OTEC Liaison. Paper 28.http://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_otec-liaison/28Solar OCEAN E-NERGY QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS DETERMINE PLANNING FOR 7TH ANNUAL OCEAN ENERGY CONFERENCE JUNE 2ND-5TH A questionnaire distributed by Gibbs and Cox I ncorporated, organizers of the 7th Annual OTEC/Ocean Energy Confer-ence, has been received by SOEL. Major results are published below. WHAT IS THE PREFERRED LOCATION FOR THE CONFERENCE? Washington DC ...... 51% Hawaii ............ 12% Puerto Rico ........ 6% Miami ........ . ... 4% Other .. ........... 27% Liaison HOW LONG SHOULD THE CONFERENCE LAST? 2 days 3 days 4 days 5 days 6% 55% 36% 3% SHOULD THE CONFERENCE BE REFORMATTED TO CONCENTRATE ON FEWER HIGH-LEVEL PAPERS? Yes ... 87% No ... 13% DID THE LAST CONFERENCE ATTRACT THE RIGHT AUDIENCE? Yes ... 67% No ... 33% INCORPORATING The OTEC Liaison VOLUME 3 NUMBER 12 December 1979 DID THE LAST CONFERENCE MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS? Yes ... 71% No ... 29% WHAT AREAS SHOULD BE EMPHASIZED IN THE NEXT CONFERENCE? OTEC ............ 34% Practical Issues ...... 15% Commercia I ization . . . . 13% Waves and Currents . . . 11 % Cold-Water Pipe ..... 8% Power System . . . . . .. 8% Institutional, Legal .. " 7% Cable. . . . . . . . . . . .. 4% (continued on Page 2) The above photograph, illustrating cold-water-pipe deployment in a mid-October experiment, was recently received by Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison from Japan. Additional photographs and related stories appear in this issue. • . Solar OCEAN · ENERGY Liaison INCORPORATING The OlEC Liaison AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER ENGAGED AS LIAISON FOR ALL FORMS OF SOLAR ENERGY FROM THE SEAL INCLUDING : OTEC (OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION) WAVE - TIDAL - CURRENT OFFSHORE WIND - BIOMASS SALINITY GRADIENTS VOLUME 3 NUMBER 12 December 1979 EDITOR/PUBLISHER Richard Arlen Meyer TYPESETTER AND COPY EDITOR Shelly Treshansky ART DIRECTOR Pamela Greenfield BUSINESS MANAGER Kathleen Guido SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER Mildred Ward Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison is published monthly by Popular Products Incorporated at 1303 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA, Phone (312) 427-3000. Printed in USA. Copyright 1979 by Popular Products Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois. All rights reserved. Contents of this newsletter may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without permission. Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison will not assume any responsibility for manuscripts or photos either left or submitted on speculation. Subscription prices are as listed below: United States and possessions: one year $95, two years $170. Foreign: Add $15 for air mail. Single copies: US $8 each. Foreign $8.75 each. ISSN: 0162-8755. Page 2 (continued from Page 1 ) PRINCIPAL COMMENTS AND SUGGESTED CHANGES .. Improve quality of technical papers; stress accomplishments, new material. Less technical detail. Less scientific, more practical overview papers. Shorten program, reduce number of papers. Fewer parallel sessions. Broaden participation; less talking to ourselves. More media coverage. Emphasis should be on moving ahead (demonstration). Continue emphasis on OTEC. Based on the above feedback, the meet-ing will be called the 7th Ocean Energy Conference (eliminating the difficult acro-nym of OTEC), and will again be held at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC, June 2nd through 5th. The detailed an-nouncement has already been mailed, but additional copies may be obtained by con-tacting this publication or Gibbs and Cox, whose address is given below. The announcement includes among the goals of the conference" ... to summarize the current status of ocean energy technol-ogy, and to arrive at a definitive position to proceed from small-scale experiments to commercialization as quickly as possible", and that it is "essential to transmit the message of the technological readiness and potential of ocean energy to the technical, academic, industrial, utility, financial, and institutional interests" as well as to the general public. Call For Papers DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS IS FEBRUARY 14TH Contact Robert J. Scott, Gibbs and Cox Incorporated, 2341 Jefferson Davis H igh-way, Suite 1020, Century Building, Arling-ton, Virginia 22202, (703) 979-1240. • DOE AWARDS NEW BIOFOULING CONTRACT The Department of Energy recently awarded a $40,000 contract to the Naval Coastal Systems Laboratory, Panama City, Florida, to test the effects of biofouling countermeasures on OTEC heat- exchanger tubes. TRANSCRIPT OF CBS NEWS PROGRAM ON OTEC WITH WALTER CRONKITE For those of you who did not see the November 26th, 1979 broadcast on CBS Evening News, with Walter Cronkite's brief mention of Hawaii's Mini-OTEC project, we present the following excerpts from the transcript. SOE L thanks David Mager of Pacific Power and Protein I ncorporated for this information. Cronkite: One trouble in paradise is the lack of oil wells; but there are volcanoes, sugar cane, the ocean, and the wind. As Barry Petersen reports in our continuing series on the environment-" The Earth Revisited" - Hawaii may lead the way in meeting energy needs with resources at hand. Barry Petersen: Paradise. Gentle trade winds and lush tropical growth. But para-dise threatened. It takes thirty million bar-rels a year of increasingly expensive oil to fuel these islands-every drop imported. There are no oil wells here, no coal mines either. By 1990, Hawaii's oil bill could be a billion dollars. But islanders, and not oil companies, may be reaping the payoff by then, for by then Hawaii could be the na-tion's first energy-independent state. [Editor's note: A short discussion en-sued regarding Hawaii's possible use of bio-mass and wind energy.] Hawaii Governor George Ariyoshi: If we did some of these things, perhaps we could provide some leadership at the national level and try to indicate the kinds of things that can be done for the use of alternatives to petroleum and coal. Petersen: As exotic as the tropical sun, this odd-looking contraption could be a major new source of electricity, using the earth's largest solar collector, the ocean. The surface water is 80 degrees. It is used to heat ammonia, with a low boiling point, to vapor. That turns a generator. Then, from 2100 feet below, icy water cools the ammonia back to liquid form and the cycle starts over. A Frenchman tried this a half-century ago; but he couldn't make it work, so he gave it up. But then, he didn't have modern electronics, or the use of plastics, or OPEC for inspiration. This experiment, funded in large part by Lockheed and the State of Hawaii, pro-vides the electricity to power itself, a few lights, and a TV set on board. Backers say it proves such a system can work. Project Manager Hank White: It really could have a very significant impact on the energy requirements for particularly under-developed countries, and perhaps provide 20% of the United States' energy needs by the year 2000. Petersen: Hawaiians, more than most, no longer believe the oil spigot will flow forever. I nstead, the energy future here is the wind and the sun and the sea. Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison Chicago 60605 December 1979 • Closeup view of the ship used by the Japanese OTEC team in recent experiments. Note the heat exchangers, top center. FIRST AT- SEA TEST OF OTECCOMPONENTSINJAPAN LATEST WORD ON JAPAN'S OTEC DEMONSTRATION PROJECT In the November issue of SOEL we re-ported a story that appeared in the Japa-nese press of a decision by the Government of Japan to proceed with an OTEC demon-stration project. The report, appearing in The Japan Times, indicated firm plans to build a 100-kilowatt (gross) plant off the island of Nauru. However two letters from Japan have informed us that the project is merely in the planning stage. (We mistakenly described Nauru as a Japanese island. However Nauru is actually an independent nation, and the world's wealthiest country due to its abundant fer-tilizer resources.) Yutaka Seya, the Director and General Manager of the Project Operation Center of the Tokyo Electric Power Service Com-pany Ltd., advises us that investigative and developmental work for the project is still under way, that the planners have not fi-nalized their engineering concepts, and that no target date has been set. Also, a December 28th letter from Dr. Haruo Uehara, who heads OTEC research in Japan, tells us that the project is merely in the planning stage at present and is not yet under construction. I n response to cables to Japanese firms and researchers to clarify their current OTEC work (see related story on this page) Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison received the following comments from Dr. Haruo Uehara, Department of Mechanical Engin-eering, Saga University, who heads Japan's OTEC program: pany Ltd., Hisaka Works Ltd., Nippon Ko-kan K. K., Fukada Salvage & Marine Works '----------------..... On October 11th, 1979 I made an OTEC experiment about 50 kilometers distant from land in the Japan Sea. The team for this experiment consisted of many compa-nies, including the Tobishima Construction Company, Tokyo Shibaura Electric Com-Company Ltd., Namura Shipbuilding Com-pany Ltd., and Torishima Pump. Of course Saga University carried out this experiment at the head of the team. Unfortunately, we could not light up because of bad weather; but we could gen-erate electric power and get valuable data. I will publish the results of this experi-ment in detail in the near future. Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison has re-quested these results, and will publish the pertinent excerpts when received. Japanese crew prepares cold-water pipe for deployment. Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison Chicago 60605 December 1979 WAVE ENERGY "NODDING DUCK" WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS RECEIVE FUNDING Edinburgh University of Scotland has recently initiated additional studies of the "nodding duck" type of wave-energy con-verters under a grant of 400,000 pounds. (See the October issue of Ocean Energy for a complete story on wave energy.) Until now, most research into this type of wave-energy conversion has been with single ducks in a controlled environment, such as wave tanks. The new research will focus on long strings of ducks in the onen ocean . ----FIFTH OPEN MEETING OF OCEAN ENERGY COUNCIL SLATED FOR MARCH 6TH The Fifth Open Meeting of the Ocean Energy Council (OEC) will be held Thurs-day, March 6th, from 4: 45 to 7 pm, in Room 2168 of the House Rayburn Office Building in Washington DC. The meeting is sponsored by OEC and the University of Virginia Center for Ocean Law and Policy, and the principal topic will be OTEC legal issues. Robert B. Krueger, Senior Partner of Nossaman, Krueger, and Marsh, will speak. OEC meetings are open to all. If you are planning to attend please advise Fred Naef, (702) 872-5947, or Bud Francis, (301) 953-7100. Page 3 • INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR Listed below are conferences and symposi-ums pertinent to solar ocean energy. These have been gleaned from various solar, en-ergy, and oceanographic publications. Ma-jor meetings recently completed are still listed for the benefit of readers who may wish to contact conference organizers for reports of proceedings. Jan 14-15: Solar Energy in the '80s, London, UK. Topics include solar applica-tions for buildings, industrial plants, eco-nomics, electricity, agriculture, and social, economic, and political implications. Info: Heliotechnic Associates International, 5 Dryden Street, Covent Gardens, London WC2 E9 NW. Jan 16-18: 9th Symposium on Ocean Exploitation - Technolo~y and Methods, Hotel George V, Paris France. Topics in-clude energy and raw materials, living mat-ter, underwater activity, and pollution pre-vention and control. Info: Colloque Asteo, 19 Avenue du President Wilson, 75116, Paris, France. Jan 30- Feb 1: Third Conference on Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, Los An-geles, California. Sponsored by the Amer-ican Meteorological Society. Info: Evelyn Mazur, AMS, 45 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108. Feb 3-7: Energy Sources Technology Conference and Exhibition, Hilton Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana. Sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Topics include the production of offshore structures, subsea production systems, oil and gas facilities, and ocean-energy, wind, and solar technologies. Info: Paul Drum-mond, ASME Petroleum Division, 345 East 47th Street, New York, New York 10017, (212) 644- 8074. Feb 12-14: Sixth FDA Science Sympo-sium, Southern University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Theme: Aquaculture: Public Health, Regulatory, and Management As-pects . Info: Dr. Charles Kimble, Office of Health Affairs, HFY- 31, Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rock-ville, Maryland 20857 . Feb 28-29: Synfuels Industry Develop-ment Seminar, Stouffer's National Center Hotel, Washington DC. Info: Martin Heav-ner, Government Institutes, 4733 Bethesda Avenue NW, Washington DC 20014, (301) 656-1090. Mar 9-11: Eighth Annual Meeting of the National Ocean Industries Association, L' Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC. Theme: The 1980s- Decade for Ocean Development. Info: NOlA, Suite 410, 1100 17th Street NW, Washington DC 20036, (202) 785-5116. • Mar 13-14: Third International Confer-ence on Thermo-electric Energy Conver-sion, University of Texas at Arlington, Ar-lington, Texas. Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington. Info: K. R. Rao, University of Texas at Arling-ton, Arlington, Texas, (817) 273-2671. Page 4 Mar 24-26: Seventh Energy Technol-ogy Conference and Exposition, Washing-ton DC. Info: ET7 Program Cha'irman, Government Institutes, 4733 Bethesda Av-enue NW, Washington DC 20014, (301) 656-'1090. Mar 31-Apr 2: Short Course in Pre-paration of Environmental-Impact State-ments, The George Washington University, Washin~ton DC. Info: Continuing Engi-neering Education, GWU, Washington DC 20052. Apr 21-23: American Power Confer-ence, Palmer House, Chicago. Sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology. Info : R.A. Budenhofer, Illinois Institute of Tech-nology, 3300 South Federal Street, Chica-go, Illinois 60616, (312) 567-3196. • May 5-8: 1980 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas. Info: OTC Exhibits Manager, OTC Headquarters, 6200 North Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas 75206. May 19-23: Fifth International Con-gress on Marine Corrosion and Fouling, Barcelona, Spain. Info: Secretariat of the Congress, Tilesa, Londres 41, Madrid 28, Spain. • Jun 2-5: Seventh Ocean Energy Con-ference, Shoreham Americana Hotel, Wash-ington DC. Sponsored by the US Depart-ment of Energy. Theme: Ocean Energy: A Time for Action. Info: Gibbs and Cox Incorporated, 2341 Jefferson Davis H igh-way, Suite 1020, Century Building, Arling-ton, Virginia 22202. Jun 2-6: 1980 Solar Jubilee Meeting of the American Section of the International Solar Energy Society, Phoenix, Arizona. Theme: 25 Years of Sun at Work. Info: American Technological University, Box 1416, Killeen, Texas 76541. Jun 8-15: World Conference on the Future of Offshore Structures, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Sponsored by the United Nations I nstitute on Train-ing and Research and the Center for the Study of Marine Policy at the University of Delaware. Info: Gerard J. Mangone, Di-rector, Center for the Study of Marine Pol-icy, University of Delaware, Newark, Dela-ware 19711. Jun 10-14: Third Exhibition on Solar Ener~y and New Energy Sources, Mar-seilles, France. Info: Foire Internationale de Marseilles, Service SETSO, Parc Chanot, 13266 Marseilles Cedex 02. Jun 19-22: International Exhibition and Meeting on Solar Energy and Rational Utilization of Energy, Genoa, Italy. Info: Fiera di Genova, P.le J. F. Kennedy, 16129 Genova, Telephone (010) 595651, Telex 271424 F ierge. Jun 23-26: Third World Hydrogen En-ergy Conference, Tokyo. Info: Tokyo Ohta, Conference Chairman, Japan Convention Services Incorporated, Nippon Press Center Building, 2--2-1, Uchisalwal-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100, Japan. Aug 6-10: 1980 Canadian National Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia. Theme: Forging the Solar Transition. Info: S. F. Leslie, Technical Papers Chairman, Sol west 80 Conference, 504 Davie Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 2G4. • Sep 8-10: Oceans '80, Seattle, Wash-ington, an international forum on engin-eering in the ocean environment in the next decade. Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and others. Info: Oceans '80, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, In-corporated, PO Box 9847, Queen Anne Station, Seattle, Washington 98109. Sep 24-25: Intermarltec '80-lnterna-tional Conference on Marine Sciences and Ocean Engineering, Hamburg, Federal Re-public of Germany. Info: Hamburg Messe und Congress Gmbh., Congress-Organisa-tion, Postfach 302360, 0-2000, Ham-burg 36, Federal Republic of Germany. • Oct 6-8: Marine Technology Confer-ence and Exposition, Shoreham Americana Hotel, Washington DC. Theme: Decade of the Oceans. Info: MT '80, Marine Technol-ogy Society, 1730 M Street NW, Washing-ton DC 20036. US GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT INVITATIONS AND CONTRACT AWARDS Listed below are contract awards and procurement invitations related to solar ocean energy culled from the Commerce Business Daily. This is not to be construed as a complete list. • Dec 14: Conduct Oceanographic Mea-surements off the Southeast Coast of Pu-erto Rico at a Depth of 2,000 Meters: RFP 4503910. The University of California Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LB L), an operating contractor of the Department of Energy, is soliciting proposals for a fifteen-month program of ocean - current data gathering and processing at a possible OTEC site in the ocean waters off Puerto Rico. To be considered, proposals must be postmarked not later than January 18th, 1980. University of California Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, Attn: F. W. Miller, Purchasing Department, Building 930, (418) 486- 4564. Dec 18: Support for Determining En-ergy, Economic, and Environmental Trade-offs: Modification 2 to Contract 68-01-5845 (RFP WA-79-C131), for $148,488, awarded to ICF Incorporated, 1850 K Street NW, Suite 950, Washington DC 20006. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW, Washington DC 20460. • Dec 27: Test of Biofouling Counter-measures on OTEC Heat-Exchanger Tubes: Contract DE-AI 02-79-CH -00135.A006, for $40,000, awarded to the US Depart-ment of the Navy, Naval Coastal Systems Laboratory, Panama City, Florida 32407. US Department of Energy, Chicago Oper-ations and Regional Office, 9800 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439. Solar OCEAN ENERGY Liaison Chicago 60605 December 1979 

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