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Designed first all-solar home for Ryland Homes in 1974. At MITRE, led a group of 35 of the best minds in the world (including Dr. Edward Teller, among others) who performed detailed engineering, scientific, socio-economic, and political analyses of all alternative energy choices for ERDA/DOE, NSF, and MITRE in 1975-80, and designed solar power plants at Gibbs & Hill in '80-'83. These included closed cycle gas turbines driven by a power tower, solar cogeneration 100MWe plant to power the Hidalgo, NM Phelps Dodge copper smelter using the Outokumpu Oy oxygen flash smelting process, the Ridgecrest Project with the Consortium of Alternate Energies, a seven-field power tower complex with 560 MWe peak power output with 100 hours of thermal storage for a 100 MWe base load system (China Lake/Ridgecrest, CA), and a 400 million gallon per year solar-powered ethanol plant. Known as world leader in alternative energy until the collapse of the field over the Reagan years.
Worked as a utility consultant for 8 years, and later at NASA for 16 years as a scientist and engineer, as Chief Technologist, reviewing all of NASA's R&D in every field of endeavor for the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board and the NASA Administrator.
20 invention disclosures, 5 patents, 87 scientific and technical peer-reviewed papers, 42 years in the profession, and successfully completed 15 projects on time, on budget, and meeting or exceeding specifications.
Listed in Who's Who In America and Who's Who In The World for the past several years and in 2012.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 A Little Bit Of History: In The Days Of Cholera (2 comments)
One of our discussions at PickensPlan.com, "How much time to prepare before economic collapse?" led to this string of posts that I have consolidated into a single blog on the issues raised. These were posted just before the 2008 election.
Thursday, November 5, 2009 One Gift For The Holidays
Current American Energy Policy is a big mistake.
Sunday, December 12, 2010 Lessons From the Developing World
When I visited Spain a few years ago, I was amazed at the nation's progress in wind power. I am now ashamed at the US today, as we fall farther behind.
