Comments for OREC http://www.oceanrenewable.com the national trade association for marine renewables Sat, 17 May 2008 07:13:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 Comment on Bill to Eliminate Production Tax Credit for Offshore Wind by Joanne http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2005/05/17/bill-to-eliminate-production-tax-credit-for-offshore-wind/#comment-6723 Tue, 06 May 2008 08:59:13 +0000 http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2005/05/17/bill-to-eliminate-production-tax-credit-for-offshore-wind/#comment-6723 Any update regarding this bill Ocen Renewable? Hope to hear from you soon! Any update regarding this bill Ocen Renewable? Hope to hear from you soon!

]]> Comment on Blog by Top 50 Alternative Energy Blogs | EcoTrekker http://www.oceanrenewable.com/blog/#comment-5255 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:26:30 +0000 http://www.oceanrenewable.com/blog/#comment-5255 [...] Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition: Learn about developments in ocean energy on this blog. [...] […] Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition: Learn about developments in ocean energy on this blog. […]

]]> Comment on President Sean O’Neill Gives Update on Legislative and Regulatory Developments by LF http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2007/09/26/president-sean-oneill-gives-update-on-legislative-and-regulatory-developments/#comment-1537 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:55:46 +0000 http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2007/09/26/president-sean-oneill-gives-update-on-legislative-and-regulatory-developments/#comment-1537 I've just come from the Senate Energy Committee website where I reviewed the pending legislation. The Bill under consideration is H.R.6, and their is a serious snag. If the bill was passed today in its current form, no energy produced by ocean conversion would be permitted to be sold for one year. The provision that causes this delay is Section 801, which calls for "a study of the laws (including regulations)affecting the siting of privately owned electric distribution wires on and across public rights-of-way." This is an obvious stalling tactic, probably lobbied for by the big energy fuel suppliers, oil, coal, gas. The legislation gives a one-year time frame to complete such studies and report back to the commission, whereupon, supposedly, there will be another round of negotiations for yet more pending legislation that will be buried in committee. Since the bill is still stalled in committee, there is still time to act. This piece of legislation is extraneous, as all regulations regarding wire and its use are well established. The Senators and Congressmen on these committees should be contacted right away and urged to strike this provision from the legislation. I’ve just come from the Senate Energy Committee website where I reviewed the pending legislation. The Bill under consideration is H.R.6, and their is a serious snag. If the bill was passed today in its current form, no energy produced by ocean conversion would be permitted to be sold for one year. The provision that causes this delay is Section 801, which calls for “a study of the laws (including regulations)affecting the siting of privately owned electric distribution wires on and across public rights-of-way.”

This is an obvious stalling tactic, probably lobbied for by the big energy fuel suppliers, oil, coal, gas. The legislation gives a one-year time frame to complete such studies and report back to the commission, whereupon, supposedly, there will be another round of negotiations for yet more pending legislation that will be buried in committee.

Since the bill is still stalled in committee, there is still time to act. This piece of legislation is extraneous, as all regulations regarding wire and its use are well established. The Senators and Congressmen on these committees should be contacted right away and urged to strike this provision from the legislation.

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]]> Comment on FAQs by OREC » A Report on Our Website and Blog http://www.oceanrenewable.com/faqs/#comment-1465 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:34:42 +0000 http://www.oceanrenewable.com/faqs/#comment-1465 [...] FAQs [...] […] FAQs […]

]]> Comment on ITC Report on Global Renewable Energy Markets by Cara Fletcher http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2005/11/17/itc-report-on-global-renewable-energy-markets/#comment-834 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:01:35 +0000 http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2005/11/17/itc-report-on-global-renewable-energy-markets/#comment-834 The companies producing renewable energy are becoming bigger and bigger because the people have understood the importance of using it instead of the common energy. The companies producing renewable energy are becoming bigger and bigger because the people have understood the importance of using it instead of the common energy.

]]> Comment on Sierra Club Supports Cape Wind by Thomas C. Gray http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2007/03/05/sierra-club-supports-cape-wind/#comment-362 Sun, 13 May 2007 16:40:58 +0000 http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2007/03/05/sierra-club-supports-cape-wind/#comment-362 It's too bad that so much of this support is almost blind to the technologies involved. Unreliable and uncontrollable energy geenrators like wind and the wave machines that do the same are not the answer to anything. They are more of an obstacle to achieving carbon neutrality. The amounts of money being thrown into these primitive and impotent technologies should be directed where it can actually acheive some good, for someone other than the international conglomerates that are building those 60 ton wind monstrosities and selling them for $2 million so they can produce less than a third of a megawatt of power, at odd times and in odd amounts. The green energy boys are ripping off the public again. It’s too bad that so much of this support is almost blind to the technologies involved. Unreliable and uncontrollable energy geenrators like wind and the wave machines that do the same are not the answer to anything. They are more of an obstacle to achieving carbon neutrality. The amounts of money being thrown into these primitive and impotent technologies should be directed where it can actually acheive some good, for someone other than the international conglomerates that are building those 60 ton wind monstrosities and selling them for $2 million so they can produce less than a third of a megawatt of power, at odd times and in odd amounts. The green energy boys are ripping off the public again.

]]> Comment on $50 Million for Ocean Energy by Kent Beuchert http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2007/03/26/50-million-for-ocean-energy/#comment-361 Sun, 13 May 2007 16:34:47 +0000 http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2007/03/26/50-million-for-ocean-energy/#comment-361 This makes no sense. There must be every conceivable type of wave machine out there already. So what exactly is that $50 million supposed to do? This has all the earmarks of money spent to boost the Congressmen's image. It will accomplish nothing for wave power. This makes no sense. There must be every conceivable type of wave machine out there already. So what exactly is that $50 million supposed to do? This has all the earmarks of money spent to boost the Congressmen’s image. It will accomplish nothing for wave power.

]]> Comment on Behind the scenes look at ocean energy developers by Kent Beuchert http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2007/05/10/behind-the-scenes-look-at-ocean-energy-developers/#comment-360 Sun, 13 May 2007 16:30:13 +0000 http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2007/05/10/behind-the-scenes-look-at-ocean-energy-developers/#comment-360 What struck me about tidal projects is the small amount of energy they were projecting from U.S. tidal flows. On the other hand, the fact that moving water contains so much more energy than moving air, and is far more constant and predictable, would make these turbines far more valuable that crappy wind turbines. What struck me about tidal projects is the small amount of energy they were projecting from U.S. tidal flows. On the
other hand, the fact that moving water contains so much more energy than moving air, and is far more constant and predictable, would make these turbines far more valuable that crappy wind turbines.

]]> Comment on The OREC Blog is Back!! by J. Doors http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2007/03/05/the-orec-blog-is-back/#comment-38 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:46:15 +0000 http://www.oceanrenewable.com/2007/03/05/the-orec-blog-is-back/#comment-38 Welcome back! Ms. Elefant gave a presentation last month, on "Building a Marine Renewables Industry." Can she publish that, and also any handouts that went with it ? Continued good luck ! Welcome back!

Ms. Elefant gave a presentation last month, on “Building a Marine Renewables Industry.” Can she publish that, and also any handouts that went with it ?

Continued good luck !

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