Who am I
As a young engineer at the NASA Langley research center I was fortunate to have been the Atmospheric Sensors Manager for the Viking Mars Project. I had just finished engineering graduate work at Virginia Tech in Aero-Space engineering in the disciplines of real gas dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid flow. My most important responsibility was to serve as the secretary of the Meteorology Science Team and alternate secretary to the Atmospheric Entry Science team and to make sure that the instrumentation the scientist needed for gathering data would work properly. I was working with the top atmospheric scientist in the world and it was a great opportunity to learn about atmospheres. Please note that the two planets most like our earth are Venus and Mars, both have atmospheres with CO2 levels greater than 90% and Venus has surface temperatures of near 900 degrees F.
As fate would have it, ten years later I was teaching at a state university in the Engineering Technology Department and was asked to create a course in Modern Power Generation; this experience forced me to learn the details of steam power generation.
In the early eighties I saw a documentary about the deep ocean submersible Alvin, showing black smokers along the mid Atlantic rift and realized that the temperatures and pressures were similar to conditions that exist in modern boilers to create steam for generating electricity.
My educational background and work experience qualifies me to define the basic design parameters needed for the Ocean Rift Geothermal Power Station described herein.