The result was Delete. Clear consensus. Ironholds ( talk) 02:56, 13 January 2011 (UTC) reply
Seems to be completely original research, and reads like someone's essay to boot. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 07:13, 28 December 2010 (UTC) reply
It's up to editors at AFD to look for sources, not provide unresearched, drive-by, opinions that don't even use the right policy. (And this goes for SchuminWeb and Erpert, too.) One looks for sources that document the idea of ocean colonization to see whether they exist. Only if things are ideas that haven't escaped their creators are they original research. Only if there are no sources at all is something unverifiable. And an essay is only an essay, per Project:What Wikipedia is not, if it is a personal reflection.
One of your several starting points for sources on this, that very much do link ocean colonization and OTEC, is Marshall Thomas Savage's "Aquarius" idea, which was even discussed at some length in an older revision of this article, before people started repeatedly blanking it. When you're done with him, and the people who have discussed him and "Aquarius", go and see what Chien Ming Wang and Brydon T. Wang have to say on the subject of ocean colonization (in their paper that's helpfully entitled Colonization of the ocean and VLFS technology, that comes up pretty much straightaway if one just looks for sources on the subject of "Colonization of the ocean"), which brings in very large floating structures and Thierry Gaudin. Uncle G ( talk) 14:59, 28 December 2010 (UTC) reply
The result was Delete. Clear consensus. Ironholds ( talk) 02:56, 13 January 2011 (UTC) reply
Seems to be completely original research, and reads like someone's essay to boot. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 07:13, 28 December 2010 (UTC) reply
It's up to editors at AFD to look for sources, not provide unresearched, drive-by, opinions that don't even use the right policy. (And this goes for SchuminWeb and Erpert, too.) One looks for sources that document the idea of ocean colonization to see whether they exist. Only if things are ideas that haven't escaped their creators are they original research. Only if there are no sources at all is something unverifiable. And an essay is only an essay, per Project:What Wikipedia is not, if it is a personal reflection.
One of your several starting points for sources on this, that very much do link ocean colonization and OTEC, is Marshall Thomas Savage's "Aquarius" idea, which was even discussed at some length in an older revision of this article, before people started repeatedly blanking it. When you're done with him, and the people who have discussed him and "Aquarius", go and see what Chien Ming Wang and Brydon T. Wang have to say on the subject of ocean colonization (in their paper that's helpfully entitled Colonization of the ocean and VLFS technology, that comes up pretty much straightaway if one just looks for sources on the subject of "Colonization of the ocean"), which brings in very large floating structures and Thierry Gaudin. Uncle G ( talk) 14:59, 28 December 2010 (UTC) reply