Events
Jules Verne mentioned OTEC
in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaJacques Arsene d'Arsonval,
a French physicist,
proposed tapping the thermal energy of the ocean.D'Arsonval's student,
Georges Claude,
built the first OTEC plant, in Matanzas, Cuba in 1930J. Hilbert Anderson
and
James H. Anderson, Jr.
patented their new "closed cycle" designTokyo Electric Power Company 's
operational 120 kW
closed-cycle
OTEC plant on the island of Nauru.The U.S. established the
Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA)
at Hawaii, a leading test facility for OTEC technologyIn 2002, India tested a
1 MW floating OTEC
pilot plant near Tamil Nadu.In 2011, Makai Ocean Engineering
completed a
heat exchanger
test facility at NEHLA,Hawaii.OTEC plant built by
Makai Ocean Engineering
went operational in
Hawaii in August 2015Saga University with
various Japanese industries
completed the installation
of a new OTEC plant.Research for open-cycle started
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