This article https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/energy/keeping-the-lights-on was interesting but was poorly written, so that I didn't understand very well what was happening. Fortunately, there was a link in the story that led me to this article, which did a better job of explaining things: http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanophotonic-incandescent-light-bulbs-0111

All,
The MHK/Offshore Renewable community needs to get more involved in the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). It is the world’s biggest trade show devoted to offshore development, by far. Last year because of the low oil price they “only” had 65,000 attendees and 2500 exhibitors, in 2014 those numbers were 100,000 and 3500. While the focus of the show is offshore oil and gas, 85+% of the exhibitors sell services and equipment applicable to MHK.
I have convinced the OTC Committee to give more space to the future of offshore, i.e. MHK. Currently there are a couple offshore renewable sessions but so far they are focused primarily on offshore wind.
I would ask that you help spread this around the Renewables community, as since I am relatively new my contacts are few. I would also ask that anyone submitting an abstract also copy me as I can act as champion but only if I know they exist. One of my jobs as an OTC Committee member is to combine liked themed papers and propose them as a session.
The link for submitting Abstracts is below:
http://2017.otcnet.org/page.cfm/link=66?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpoaE9ETmhaVGc0TW1ReCIsInQiOiI2Q3hoZHc5Qndta0xHNmtxd1JCWUp6TW9JRTJWcGNlb2h5NExJamJqZzZiSkY4WnZFR0xTcG1vR1Z4T1wvN29hQVFFT3pCeTM3OEUzT2FiVUtnSTRidzFzWGNsV3RhcWV6WnNUSFwvNHk4SXg4PSJ9
Regards
Roy Robinson
CEO Excipio Energy, Inc.
Houston, TX
roy.robinson@excipioenergy.com
(832)720-4190