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Makai Ocean Engineering has received a $3.6 million contract from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute and the Office of Naval Research for research and design on the marine renewable energy known as Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, or OTEC. Makai will perform this work at their Ocean Energy Research Centre, located in Kona, Hawaii, which is the largest OTEC research facility in the world.

OTEC holds great promise because the tropical ocean is earth’s largest solar collector. According to Dr. Joseph Huang, a senior scientist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “If we can use one percent of the energy [generated by OTEC] for electricity and other things, the potential is so big. It is more than 100 to 1,000 times more than the current consumption of worldwide energy. The potential is huge. There is not any other renewable energy that can compare with OTEC.”1 OTEC is unique among renewables because it can provide large quantities of base load (constant) electricity. France, Korea, Japan, and China also have active OTEC development programs.

Makai will work on two initiatives to serve the ultimate goal of making commercial OTEC a reality: designing, manufacturing and testing an improved heat exchanger for OTEC, and connecting power from its OTEC plant to the electric grid on the Island of Hawaii.

Objective: (i) Document the ocean thermal resource; and (ii) Analyze potential OTEC worldwide sustainable energy production.

One might ask: is OTEC renewable energy? The simple answer is that as long as the sun shines and, if and only if, deep-ocean cold water is provided by the thermohaline circulation the ocean thermal resource is renewable. A pertinent question, however, is: what is the worldwide power resource that could be extracted with OTEC plants without affecting the thermohaline ocean circulation? Our estimate is that the maximum steady-state OTEC electrical power is about 14 TW (Terawatts) corresponding to 250,000 plants of the kind described in the “OTEC Power Production” link below. These would be deployed throughout the OTEC region in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of ninety-eight nations. This power rating corresponds to 77% of the current worldwide annual energy consumption (Global OTEC Resources_2013).

Ocean Thermal Resource.- The temperature difference between 20 m and 1000 m water depths gives a good indication of available OTEC resources across tropical oceans. For example, values less than 18°C may not be economically viable for OTEC power generation. The NOAA National Ocean Data Center’s World Ocean Atlas (WOA) database (2005 version) was used to construct the link given below which shows the annual and monthly averages of the temperature difference (between 20 m and 1000 m depths) across the world oceans on a quarter-degree horizontal grid. The link TemperatureDifferentialWOA2005 provides the user with a color coded world map of the annual average temperature difference. The user can choose any region of interest defined by specific latitude and longitude ranges to view color-coded data of the annual average temperature difference as a function of latitude and longitude. Further, clicking on any location gives a plot of monthly averages of the temperature difference there.

OTEC Power Production.- An estimate of OTEC power production capabilities can be made with the temperature difference data available from the WOA database. The link PowerMaps gives annual and monthly averages of the power that would be produced by a single generic OTEC plant rated at 100 MW in standard conditions (seawater temperature difference of 20°C between 20 m and 1000 m depths, and seawater temperature of 300 K at 20 m depth). The standard conditions, along with other realistic assumptions are found in: OTEC Summary Aug 2012. The display is limited to a latitude band between 30°S and 30°N. The link provides the user with a color-coded distribution of OTEC power production from the generic 100 MW plant, in GWh per year. The user can choose any region of interest between 30°S and 30°N to view detailed values of annual average power. Further, clicking on any location provides the user with a plot of the monthly averages of net power there, in GWh per month.

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All University of Hawai‘i campuses use the same System Application Form for undergraduate enrollment, but admissions are handled separately by each campus.

NOTE: Questions about your application or application requirements should be directed to the admissions office of the campus you wish to attend. Contact information is listed below.

Contact information

Campus admissions office	Postal, homepage and email address	Telephone number

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Office of Admissions (for undergraduate information)	2600 Campus Road, Room 001 Honolulu, HI 96822-2385 http://manoa.hawaii.edu uhmanoa.admissions@hawaii.edu	808-956-8975

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Graduate Division Admissions Office (for graduate information)	2540 Maile Way, Spalding 354 Honolulu, HI 96822 http://manoa.hawaii.edu/graduate graduate.education@hawaii.edu	808-956-8544

University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Office of Admissions	200 West Kawili Street Hilo, HI 96720-4091 http://hilo.hawaii.edu uhhadm@hawaii.edu	808-932-7446 1-800-897-4456 (toll free)

University of Hawai‘i—West O‘ahu Office of Admissions	91-1001 Farrington Hwy Kapolei, HI 96707 http://www.uhwo.hawaii.edu/admissions/ uhwo.admissions@hawaii.edu	808-689-2900

Hawai‘i Community College Admissions Office	200 West Kawili Street Hilo, HI 96720-4091 http://hawaii.hawaii.edu hawccar@hawaii.edu	808-934-2710

Honolulu Community College Admissions Office	874 Dillingham Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817 http://honolulu.hawaii.edu honcc@hawaii.edu	808-845-9129

Kapi‘olani Community College Admissions Office	4303 Diamond Head Road Honolulu, HI 96816 http://www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/admissions/	808-734-9555

Kaua‘i Community College Admissions & Records Office	3-1901 Kaumualii Hwy. Lihue, HI 96766 http://kauai.hawaii.edu arkauai@hawaii.edu	808-245-8225

Leeward Community College Admissions & Records Office	96-045 Ala Ike Pearl City, HI 96782 http://www.leeward.hawaii.edu lccar@hawaii.edu	808-455-0642

Maui College Admission & Records Office	310 Kaahumanu Avenue Kahului, HI 96732 http://maui.hawaii.edu skameda@hawaii.edu	808-984-3267 1-800-479-6692 (toll free)

Windward Community College Admissions and Records Office	45-720 Keaahala Road Kaneohe, HI 96744 http://windward.hawaii.edu wccweb@hawaii.edu	808-235-7432

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