Okemos+-+OTEC

 ** ALL DA’s are non-unique--alternative energy NOW: **
 * CONTENTION ONE: THE STATUS OF THE STATUS QUO **

1. PTCs and efficiency standards to reduce fossil fuel dependence. ** ** Daily Green 11/13 ** (2008, “new federal renewable energy tax credits threw solar power into a tailspin," http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/solar-power-tax-credits-461108)  ** Market Watch 11/18 ** (2008, “alternative energy bulls face bear market,” p. http://zionistgoldreport.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/alternative-energy-whipsawed)     ** FMLink 10/10 ** (2008 “DOE awards up to $7.3 million to 14 water power projects”, p. http://www.fmlink.com/News/Articles/news.cgi?catid=102&display=next10articles&id=25000) ** 4. ** ** But, OTEC**** PTCs were not part of the deal. **  ** Korman 2005 ** (Richard**,** Editor & award-winning journalist, is senior business editor of ENR.com, “Tapping Ocean Temperature Change”; http://energycentral.fileburst.com/EnergyBizOnline/2005-5-sep-oct/Ocean%20Temp%200905.pdf )
 * 2. Obama will spend money on renewables. **
 * 3. The DOE increased incentives for OTEC research. **

** 5. Don’t be swayed by their imaginary disads. You have a moral imperative to end real suffering. **  **__ Shaw 1989 __**, (Peter, Commentary magazine, April “Apocalypse Again”, p. online) ** 6. Nuclear war does not cause extinction and case outweighs your disad—3 reasons: 1) privileging nuclear war is racist and dehumanizing. 2) Systemic impacts of case are more important than small probabilities of nuclear war. 3) case’s stance against violence is the only means to solve nuclear war. ** ** Martin 1982 **  (Brian, prof in Science, Tech & Society @ Wollongong, Critique of nuclear extinction, //Journal of Peace Research// 19.4, p. http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/82jpr.html CONTENTION TWO: ONE-FISH-TWO-FISH-RED-FISH-BLUE-FISH ** ** 1. ** ** Fish stocks are declining now – increased productivity is key. ** ** Kirke 2003 ** (Brian, prof. Engineering @ Griffith, “Enhancing fish stocks with wave-powered artificial upwelling,” Ocean and Coastal Management 46, [|http://www.cyberiad.net/library/pdf/...spublished.pdf] ) **2. OTEC**** raises ocean nutrient content boosting productivity ** ** Goodbody and Thomas-Hope 2002 ** (Ivan, prof. Zoology, Elizabeth, prof. Environmental management @ UWest Indies, Natural Resource Management for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean, p. 334.  **3. OTEC**** externally solves food shortages through fertilizer production **  ** Barry 2008 ** (  Christopher, Naval architect and co-chair of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, panel on ocean renewable energy, “Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion and CO2 Sequestration,” renewenergy.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/ocean-thermal-energy-conversion-and-co2-sequestration)   **  4. Hunger outweighs death.  **  ** LaFollette 2003 ** (Hugh, prof. Ethics @ USouth Florida, “World Hunger,” http://www.stpt.usf.edu/hhl/papers/World.Hunger.htm ) 5. Stable fish stocks solve poverty  **  ** IRIN Global 2008 ** (2/26, Humanitarian News and Analysis for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “GLOBAL: Climate change affecting fish stocks,” http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=76981 )  **  6. Poverty is a systemic impact of structural violence that outweighs nuclear war. We solve for the root cause of their scenarios.  **  ** Gilligan 2000 ** (James, prof. Psychiatry @ Harvard Med, Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic, p. 195-6)   **7. OTEC**** results in net gains of plankton—this increases fishing harvests. **  ** Avery 1994 ** (William, prof. Physical chem. @ Harvard, “Renewable energy from the ocean: a guide to OTEC ,” p. 425-7)  ** 8. History proves that phytoplankton are the foundation of the food chain and produce half of the worlds oxygen—their current & drastic decline risks extinction. **  ** UPI 2008 ** (6/6, “Acidic oceans may tangle food chain,” __ http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2008/06/06/Acidic_oceans_may_tangle_food_chain/UPI-84651212763771/print) __  ** Clark & Downes 1996 ** (Dana & David, prof. int’l environ. law @ AmericanU, “what price biodiversity?” p. l/n)  **  CONTENTION THREE: WATER  **  ** OTEC **** produces desalinated water **  ** Bender 2001 ** (Eric, Whitehead Inst. For Biomed Research & MIT tech review editor, 8/13 "Oceans of Power” Technology Review, http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/12527/ )  **  Desalination solves global water scarcity.  **  ** WRRC 1999 ** (Water Resources Research Center, December, Research Center @ UArizona. "Global Water Shortage Looms In New Century,"  http://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/awr/dec99/Feature2.htm  .  **  Lack of clean water outweighs your DAs.  **    **Berman 2005** (Jessica, science and med correspondent for VOA,“WHO: Waterborne Disease is World's Leading Killer,” p. http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2005-03/2005-03-17voa34.cfm?CFID=93767752&CFTOKEN=55192494 )   ** Plan: The United States federal government should make Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion technology eligible for the renewable energy production tax credit in the United States’ Exclusive Economic Zones. ** **CONTENTION FOUR: LET’S GET WET AND ELECTRIC!** **1. Incentives are key to spur private sector investment in environmentally friendly OTEC.** **DOE 2005** (9/12 , “Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion,” http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/renewable_energy/ocean/index.cfm/mytopic=50010  **)** ** 2. Put away your States CP and Federalism DA. States don’t have the jurisdiction to operate or incentivize OTEC. Legally NOAA jurisdiction. **  **EPRR Act 2007**   (The Energy Policy Reform and Revitalization Act of 2007  **, ** Section 305. OTEC Regulations, p.  http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2776 ) ** 3. Production tax credit critical to spur private sector investment in OTEC****. ** ** Elefant 2005 ** (Carolyn, Lawyer specializing in energy reg & marine renewables development, House Ways and Means Committee, p. http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=4067 )
 * 9. Privilege long-term focus to policy analysis—focusing on short term scenarios externalizes environmental concerns making cycles of resource depletion and extinction inevitable **

 **4. Federal production tax credit combined with research and development funding is key to business investment in OTEC . According to commercial business investors and the OTEC industry, state incentives only complicate matters by creating dual jurisdiction perm requirements & don’t help companies overcome federal permit requirements for ocean energy. They prefer the feds. ** **Schmidt 2006 ** (Michael, staff writer, 9/25. “Panel told ocean energy technologies face 'almost insurmountable' hurdle,” Inside Energy with Federal Lands, p. l/n). 