Inspired by the metaphor that open
cycle creates fresh water Claude in 1932 constructed the first
Mini-OTEC system as an open cycle system. It did not generate net
power. Lacking prior experience in ocean development the Federal
Government constructed OTEC1 in the early seventies as a shipboard
demonstration of a one megawatt system that did not generate power.
With limited funds and having been rejected by Washington a
competent, experienced development team from the State of Hawaii,
Lockheed, and Dillingham Corp. designed and deployed Mini-OTEC a
barge mounted closed cycle system that generated about 15 kilowatts
of net power and demonstrated to the world the feasibility of OTEC
electricity.Following this experiment, the "casino capitalist" executives of Lockheed and Dillingham canceled their participation in the development program. It was picked up by the Aluminum Company of Canada who developed at NELH low cost environmentally sustainable aluminum heat exchangers and GE/Marconi of Britain who designed a commercially viable one megawatt OTEC system. A project was formulated and funded with the State of Hawaii, GE and Alcan. The project was aborted when "casino capitalist" executives of Alcan canceled their participation. With painful puritanical progress the Pacific Institute for High Technology Research, the Natural Energy laboratory of Hawaii and the State of Hawaii picked up the pieces to construct a research version of the 1 megawatt plant which will produce about fifty kilowatts of electricity with components of commercially viable quality. This equipment should be operational in about a month and will be the first fruits of a professionally competent approach to OTEC development. No other OTEC system of any kind or description will be as close to commercial viability as this system at NELH. Common Heritage Corp. is now willing to undertake the procurement and installation of such a system at the level of one megawatt (no pipe or pump) without performance guarantees with a delivery date of twenty four months for a fixed price of $3,000.000.00 or on a cost plus a fixed fee basis with an estimated price of $2,000.000.00 plus fixed fee. Based on the 50 year track record of the management team, and only on its track record, you can have confidence that CHC will deliver. No other company can make such an offer.
Inspired by a metaphor, the Reagan
Administration authorized the development of an Open Cycle net
power demonstration project. The project was assigned to
PICHTR and was staffed by a highly competent technical team. The
result is an engineering marvel that produces (order of magnitude)
a hundred kilowatts of power. The cost is in the millions, and there is
no feasible way to carry out the development for higher energy
outputs. It is a monument to a metaphor, and any competent sponsor
would have known that before undertaking the project. What a
tragedy to squander the talents of these superb engineers and to
tarnish and delay the reputation of the future of OTEC. The CHC
will not under any circumstance develop the concept of open cycle
OTEC for the production of electricity. Some day in the future some
form of hybrid perhaps. In the meantime CHC has designed and
patented and will soon test a rain making tower called a hurricane tower that will produce all the fresh
water needed by a self sufficient coastal village at low cost and
with the simplest of engineering. If it's water that you want, come
see us but if you want to go down in history along with the
dinosaur, the Stanley Steamer, the Edsel or for that matter any 100
megawatt closed cycle OTEC plant that promises delivery before the
end of the century, put your money on this monument to a metaphor.
But you really do not need electricity from deep ocean water at this
time. What you want is agriculture, aquaculture, air conditioning,
industrial cooling, fresh water and self sufficiency. So hurry back to
the home page and start your education.