OroAzul

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Fully Fund NSF 2335932!

If you’re attending COP28, write down that number and ask every US gov delegate “why isn’t America fully funding NSF 2335932?” They will have no idea what you’re talking about, but it’s in their computers under that number.

After 5 years of work and $1,000,000 of my own time and money, my team and I got the OroAzul Proposal blessed by NSF. Our NSF Program Director and his boss are onboard and they are trying to fast track us – but there’s a regulatory barrier. If we can get past it, it will take months and getting past it may be impossible.

We need your donations to keep the doors open long enough to get there.

Our NSF proposal was written before we broke 2C, now that approach is too slow. We must move faster and restarting the NSF process can take a year. If possible, we want to be 100% philanthropically funded and license our Gen 1 tech worldwide by June of 2024. It will be under a non-commercial use agreement so anyone can use it if they don’t sell the power or products. We will use the royalties for future research and funding climate remediation.

Help us make that possible.

What is the OroAzul Proposal?

It began as ultra low cost ocean energy from anywhere on the ocean delivered to shore by a new class of supercritical hydrogen storage cells. Now it’s new grid storage, new aircraft and rocket engine tech, cryogenic co-generation, super material aircraft from recaptured carbon and a new class of Carnot engine (not Stirling.) We can’t prevent biosphere collapse with one new thing, we need several and this grant funds the bare minimum to get started.

What do we mean by ultra low cost? 10% of current natural gas or wind – with grid storage, at point of delivery. Out in the deep ocean, without the grid storage and transport, it’s less than 1%. The energy is so cheap, we believe it can power carbon recapture to produce synthetic, green gasoline from recaptured atmospheric carbon so you can keep using your car and the airlines can keep flying during the decades required for out old equipment to were out. We’re motor heads!! One of our team built and raced top fuel dragsters.

There’s a lot more, about ½ a terabyte more. For those willing to sign the non-disclosures and spend about 20 hours getting up to speed on the work, we’ll make the core documents available for review. For the rest of you there’s a Q&A post on LinkedIn.

Think of OroAzul as part Climate Marshal Plan, part Blue Gold Rush, part Mr. Science and part Redneck Tech. Gen 1 looks primitive because it's designed for low income fishing communities so they can become energy producers. Gen 2, 3 and 4 will look more advanced. NSF approved the science and is fighting hard to get us past a funding barrier and with your donation, we can make that happen.

Who are we?

My team and I were once America’s Engineering A Team who the military called in when no one else could do the job. In many cases, we did in 3 or 4 months with small teams, what Lockheed Skunkworks and Boeing failed to do in 5 years with large ones. If that sounds unbelievable, the Air Force and Navy agreed with you. They demanded a Blue Ribbon review claiming our results was impossible and we were making them up – we were vindicated and they went away a wee bit sheep faced. We’ve won service to America awards for our past work. Our team advisor lead development of the Md600 and MD900 helicopters and led the original Army team for the V-22 Osprey.

I was appointed Tiger Team Captain and rescued the $250 billion LHX proposal to the army in 18 months – at age 30.

It is critical for all of us to understand the difference between "generates energy" and "generates enough energy to power humanity for centuries, at a cost less than fossil fuels." The first is easy, the second is one of the most difficult problems in history. Waves, photovoltaic cells, wind and geothermal all generate energy, but none can generate enough at low enough cost to replace fossil fuels.

As you can see, we're aerospace, helicopter guys - we know what rotors can do, and more importantly what they can't do. Open flow turbines do not work well in slow moving water. Unfortunately, slow moving water contains most of the ocean's energy. So, I designed the totally new Ocean Piston to work under these conditions. This opens up most of the world's oceans for energy harvesting, and it doesn't chop up the marine life.

We took oaths to protect America from all threats foreign and domestic – and we’ve now added “existential” to that oath. Climate change is the greatest existential threat humanity has ever faced and to protect America, we must protect the world. We worked in an environment where we Speak Truth to Power and Power listened. We had a lot of arguments with Power to figure out what the truth was, but we did it together. We achieved this by fact checking everything, including textbooks, and terminating our own programs when they failed to do what’s required. We’ve done that to OroAzul 5 times, it still works and now NSF agrees with us.

In order to assure that our systems are what low income, indigenous fishers need, we were fortunate to find Joar Sevilleno, the lead electrical engineer for Dubai Midfield terminal, during the pandemic lock down, living on Bantayan Island near our research base. Joar grew up working the fishing canoes and is now our chief engineer for electrical systems, field testing and local operations.

We applied our proven methods to climate change, developed new generators, storage cells, fluid dynamics, software and even business methods and after five years we found one way to get out of the climate trap. If fully funded, we can reduce fossil fuel usage by 10% to 15% per year – without government subsidies. When we’re underway, we’ll actually pay taxes, not consume your tax dollars.

Fully fund NSF 2335932!

Bob Tipton (me) with Sam Hurt