INVENTIONS

Both individually and as a CEO participated in range of R&D including energy and environmental systems, musical instruments, walking chairs and other medical assistive devices, software, project financing, philanthropic techniques and many others. Projects worked on include:

Alternative and bio-fuels (JPL, Sunlaw, Stanford, G6)

International Space Station (NASA/JPL)

Solar Energy:
- Photovoltaics (JPL, Sunlaw)
- Power Tower (JPL, Sunlaw)
- Heating and Cooling (JPL)
- Solar Power Satellite (NASA/JPL)

Oil and gas price prediction models (JPL, Sunlaw)

Electric, hybrid and autonomous vehicles (JPL)

Aeroderivative gas turbines in combined-cycle for elctric utility baseload applications (Sunlaw with General Electric, and Stewart & Stevenson)
- Aeroderivative gas turbines in combined-cycle for elctric utility peaking applications
- Hot Water Injection for Pollution Control and Power Enhancement (Sunlaw with General Electric, and Stewart & Stevenson)
- Gas turbine combustor designs (Sunlaw with General Electric)
- Hydrogen production, distribution and use in cata;lyst systems (Sunlaw)
- Catalytic converters (Sunlaw)
- Carbon capture (cement and sequestration) (Sunlaw, G6)
- High temperature, high efficiency seals (including for use with hydrogen) (Sunlaw)
- Water purification and desalination (Sunlaw)

1st of a kind Alternative Energy Financing (Sunlaw)

1st Force Majeur Policy for Alternative Energy aith Lloyds of London/Adams Brothers (Sunlaw)

Australian America’s Cup (Sunlaw)

Patents issued:

Three patents are for a method of making high-quality cement from the greenhouse gases and other pollutants from power plants.

Three patents are for catalyst chemistry for ultra-low emissions from gas-fired power plants, and

Two for mechanical systems for pollution control, including one that has been used for carbon capture.

The ninth patent is for making electricity from the non-carbon parts of coal while simultaneously de-acidifying acid mine drainage.

The tenth patent is for “The Walking Chair,” a medical assistive device I invented to help with my back problems.

Air Pollution Control Technology

U.S. Patent #5,451,558
- “Process for the Reaction and Absorption of Gaseous Air Pollutants, Apparatus Therefore and Method of Making the Same,” September 19, 1995.

U.S. Patent #5,650,127
- “NOx Removal Process,” July 22, 1997.

U.S. Patent #5,607,650
- “Apparatus for Removing Contaminants from Gaseous Stream,” March 4, 1997.

U.S. Patent #5,665,321
- “Process for the reaction and absorption of gaseous air pollutants, apparatus therefor and method.” September 9, 1997

U.S. Patent #5,762,885
- “Apparatus for Removing Contaminants from Gaseous Stream,” June 9, 1998.

Carbon Sequestration and Recycling as Cement

U.S. Patent# 7,887,694 B2.
- “Method of Sequestering CO2.” Production of cement from seawater and CO2 from powerplants and other sources. February 15, 2011

U.S. Patent #8,333,944
- Methods of sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) are provided. Aspects of the methods include precipitating a storage stable carbon dioxide sequestering product from an alkaline-earth-metal-containing water and then disposing of the product, e.g., by placing the product in a disposal location or using the product as a component of a manufactured composition. December 18, 2012

U.S. Patent #7,966,250
- CO2 commodity trading system and method: “A system and method of generating and trading a CO2 commodity that is correlated to a quantified amount of CO.sub.2 sequestered in a CO2 sequestering product comprising a carbonate and/or a bicarbonate. The tradable commodity can be purchased or sold for use in managing CO2.” June 21, 2011

Electricity from the non-carbon parts of coal while simultaneously de-acidifying acid mine drainage

U.S. Patent# 7,883,802 B2;
- “Systems and Methods for Electrochemical Power Generation,” February 8, 2011

Walking Chair – Medical Assistive Device

U.S. Patent# 7.481,445 B1
- “Combination Walker and Wheelchair with Improved Ergonomic Design,” January 27, 2009