The Atmocean Cleantech Business Atmocean, Inc., an emerging cleantech leader, is embarking on an ambitious plan to enhance natural ocean recycling of CO2 while restoring the ocean ecological environment. But first, our plan is to produce sufficient pumps to support the need by scientists for more ocean data while assessing the ecological impact. If (as expected) our pumps are proven to be ecologically beneficial, we will begin to carefully deploy pumps configured for generating CO2 offsets for sale either on the climate exchanges or direct to commercial & industrial firms and to the fossil energy industry. We recognize the risks involved in many “geoengineering” ideas. This is why we have chosen a slow development path with step-by-step controls to ensure our pumps are not inducing more harm than good. By using wave-energy, our pumps very closely mimic the natural ocean upwelling process since they merely “stir up” locally-existing seawater biochemical nutrients. We do not add any foreign fertilizer or other substance to the ocean. Our management team comes from a diverse educational & employment background. Founder & CEO Phil Kithil has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics. In his previous auto safety startup he was awarded 11 patents for occupant sensing and crash sensing which he licensed to five major automotive suppliers before selling the portfolio to Methode Electronics in 2004. Chief consulting scientist Brian Von Herzen, Ph.D. is a leading climate scientist and accomplished ocean biogeochemist, who also serves as Executive Director of The Climate Foundation, an Oregon 501(C)3. Chief consulting engineer Philip Fullam, PE, MBA, has over 25 years technology & manufacturing experience. Consulting CTO Dr. Bill Unkel was associate professor at MIT in the Mechanical Engineering department, and Director of Electronics and Instrumentation during several America's cup campaigns. To discuss Atmocean’s Cleantech business opportunity, please contact Philip W. Kithil, CEO, at atmocean.kithil@gmail.com
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