Doug Carlson

Doug Carlson is a consultant with a special interest in helping Hawaii achieve energy independence.  He sees the tropical ocean as the world’s largest storage battery, an inexhaustible supply of solar energy that can replace imported fossil fuel for baseload electrical generation here.  Doug asserts that Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) will produce fuel for a new breed of hydrogen-powered cars and trucks and, that OTEC is the sleeping giant in Hawaii’s future, a natural progression from current wind and solar energy projects to large-scale pollution-free production.  Doug first set foot in Hawaii 40 years ago while on a flight to South Vietnam.  After leaving the Army, he worked as a journalist in Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles and returned to Hawaii for good in 1973 to report for The Honolulu Advertiser.