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This article is to suggest that there be some strong grassroots support in Boulder and across America clamoring for prompt federal action—by Congress and the Obama Administration—to make ocean thermal energy a reality. Although ocean thermal [...]
About the author:
Robert Cohen holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University. He left his scientific career at NOAA/Boulder in 1973 to join the budding federal renewable energy R&D program in Washington, D.C. There he became the initial program manager who designed and conducted the federal ocean thermal energy R&D program, one of the six major renewable energy programs that originated at NSF/RANN and were subsequently moved to DOE.
From 1985 to 1990 he served as a Senior Program Officer for the Energy Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences, where he was engaged in organizing studies on energy technology policy.
Currently he is a pro bono consultant working toward helping advance the commercialization of ocean thermal energy technology.
