I want to tell you about me
I am an accomplished scientist and energy expert with engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Michigan. And since energy drives global warming, I thoroughly understand the global warming issues.
I am certified by the U.S. Department of Energy as a process heating expert, and I have been a key contributor to many of their industry energy R&D roadmaps. I have also been a U.S. delegate to the International Organization for Standardization’s meetings on energy management systems (ISO 50001).
I have been lecturing on climate change for twenty years. For example, I have lectured at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Raritan Valley Community College, Sierra Club, various libraries, and a local N.J. radio station. And as a former WPI student, and now working at Solvus Global, stated: "Your lectures on global warming were the best lectures I had in the entirety of my four years in college!"
I am president and founder of Energy Research Company, a high-tech research and development firm through which I research and publish extensively on energy topics, some of them directly related to global warming. I have fifty-seven publications, and three patents. I have published chapters in three books:
(1) Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS): Concepts, Instrumentation, Data Analysis and Applications. Published by John Wiley & Sons. To be released in 2022.
(2) Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Theory and Applications. Published by Springer, 2014.
(3) “Recovery, Reuse, and Recycling of Aluminum”, Chapter 2: High Integrity Casting of Lightweight Components, North American Die Casting Association, February 2017.
I am also conducting research in other areas besides energy that are relevant to global warming, such as nuclear waste, and hydrogen production which are keys to global warming issues. On these topics, I work extensively with universities and their scientists (Lehigh University, for example), national laboratories (Los Alamos National Laboratory, the most recent), federal agencies (Department of Energy, for instance), and many private companies.
But what has driven my research is the surprisingly diverse and unexpected topics to be mastered in order to truly understand and defeat global warming. For instance, it was easy to verify that global warming is happening and that we are responsible. This led me to wonder why people deny that it exists. My curiosity was a springboard to understanding how people make decisions, which pushed me into studying how to convince them, and then to learn how lies propagate. Once I mastered one topic, another popped up as if in a Whack-a-Mole game. So after spending thirty years as a professional and as an alarmed citizen, I have now constructed a story that connects these related and important global warming topics into a compelling narrative for both professionals and concerned readers alike.