[SPN-Discussion] Greentech Investors Forum Friday, July 8: Leviathan Air--increasing the power of every wind turbine in the world

[Gelvin Stevenson]

The Leviathan Energy Wind Energizer™



Date: Friday, July 8, 2016

Time: 8:00am – 10:00am

Organizer: Gelvin Stevenson, PhD.  Guest Moderator: Geoff Miles

Host: Troutman Sanders

Location: 875 Third Ave.



Leviathan Wind Energizer, LLC, incorporated in New York, redefines the wind
generation industry with its innovative approach that doesn’t even touch
the turbine, so it can be used by any wind turbine anywhere in the world.



By aerodynamically structuring wind before its arrival to the turbine, the
Wind EnergizerTM can typically  enhance  power  output  by  30%  and,  at
times,  at  lower  wind  speeds, by over 100%. The prototype enhanced power
output by 156% over the control over a 24 hours period. The company’s
first  patent was granted in the US in May 2012 and the second in April
2016.



The Leviathan Energy Wind EnergizerTM is  a  fast  way  to  combat
climate  change  (and  make  profits) because it simply optimizes already
 constructed—and often grid-connected—turbines. By increasing the effective
velocity in the plane of the blades, it rewrites the world wind map.
Current wind  farms  can  increase  their  profits  significantly and
previously unprofitable  areas  for  wind  farms—or sites that previously
seemed to lack sufficient wind velocity—can now become lucrative sites.



The Wind  EnergizerTM   is  a  passive  aerodynamic  structure  that
partially surrounds  the  base  of  the  windmill  from  a  calculated
distance  to  increase the  wind  speed  flowing  through  the  rotors  of
the  turbine.  It  is  precisely constructed  for  each  turbine  based
on  wind  flow  and  turbine geometry using  computer  models  developed
in  the  field  of Computational  Fluid Dynamics.



The structure has a conical shape with one opening that channels the air
that has been gathered (and often warmed) under the structure up and out of
the opening. When it exits through the opening, the air rises up the tower,
where it provides additional force to the blades.



The Wind  EnergizerTM   has  been  proven  with  test  and  control
turbines in a testing center in Israel’s Negev Desert.



Every   large   wind   turbine   owner   in   the   world   is   a
potential customer.  This   market   consists   of approximately 300,000
existing turbines, growing by over 30,000 turbines per year. The company
says that the markup on each sale will be $100,000-300,000.





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Or contact Gelvin at gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com.



Another extremely valuable feature is the product’s effect on the turbine
gearbox. Each extra year of life for a gearbox could be worth up to
$100,000. Breakdowns occur approximately every 5 years at a cost of  $500,000.
The Wind EnergizerTM  converts  the  wind  approaching  the  blades  into  a
  uniform velocity, so that the normal stresses on the turbine from the
greater velocity at the top of the blades are practically eliminated. Many
wind farms around the world have a problem finding proper maintenance
support  for  turbines  in  isolated  areas,  both  in  terms  of  equipment
  and  manpower.  Therefore the maintenance of theses turbines is an even
more important issue in remote areas. The company estimates that, when  the
  effect  on  the  gearbox  is  quantified,  it  is  likely  that   the
total  return  on  investment  for  the customer  will,  in  many
cases,  exceed
50%  per  year!  Additional  income  from  carbon  credits  may  also be
available.


GIF thanks Investors Circle for its generous support, Geoff Miles and Chino
Maduagwu for developing and operating GIF’s video, social media and design
capabilities, Tonia Popke for her financial expertise, and Jesse Goldstein,
PhD, for his continued assistance.

 A  team,  consisting  of  scientists  and  venture  capitalists,  assembled
  by  Tel  Aviv  University  for  the International  CleanTech  Open
Competition,  judged  the Wind  EnergizerTM  as  Israel’s  third  best  clean
technology for the year 2010. The product was examined by a number of
technical teams. In addition, a team at the highest levels of General
Electric wrote to the company that it was a game-changing technology.

The  next  step  is  to  raise  $1  million  to  make  a  large-scale
validation  at  a  location  such  as  the  National Renewable Energy
Laboratory and obtain the third party certification that the industry
requires.


Disclaimer: The Greentech Investors Forum (GIF) is not soliciting funds for
the presenting companies, nor is it encouraging parties to invest in them.
We try to find good companies—not necessarily good investments. They have
been advised on what is acceptable in terms of predicted results, but GIF
takes no responsibility for what they actually do, say, or how they perform
in the future.





*Agenda:*          8:00 to 8:30    -   Networking

                        8:30 to 8:40    -   Introductions

8:40 to 9:10    -   Daniel Farb, Ph.D., Founder and CEO

9:10 to 9:30     -   Dr. Jacob Krispin, President, VorCat Inc.

9:30 to 10:00  -   Discussion



*Security:*        If there is a problem at the Security Desk, please
contact Troutman Sanders at 212.704.6000 (first choice) or Gelvin Stevenson
at 917-599-6089.



*Fees:*               $50, payable ahead of time or at the door. Cash or
checks and credit cards accepted.

$25 for call-in. Registered call-ins will be emailed the call-in numbers
and, if available, the slides to be presented.

                        $20 for students and faculty.

                        $0 for media.



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send your contact information to Gelvin Stevenson at
gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com or 917-599-6089. And contact Gelvin If you have
questions or need more information.


Bios


Dr. M. Daniel Farb, CEO of Leviathan Wind Energizer LLC, and PI



*Education:*

1999-2001 Courses at UCLA School of Business and Management, program in
International Trade and Commerce. Partially completed. 2000, Certification
course by PERI (Pharmaceutical Education and Research Institute) on Applied
Good Clinical Practices. 1997, Anderson School of Management, UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA, degree in Executive Management. 1978-1982, Boston University
School of Medicine, Boston, MA. M.D., elected to Alpha Omega Alpha honors
fraternity. 1976-1977, Special Student in Science, Yale University, New
Haven, Conn. 1972-1976, Yale College, New Haven, Conn. B.A., English
Literature, cum laude. Set an academic record by taking eight courses
(double the average load, and including senior research projects in English
and Psychology and six science and math courses) in one semester and
receiving all A's.



*Work Experience:*

2006-present, Founder, CEO, creator of most of the intellectual property,
Leviathan Energy, a group of renewable energy companies in Israel and now
the US with innovations in a variety of wind, water, wave, and underwater
turbines. 2005-2006- Patent writer and consultant with Mark Friedman, Ltd.,
an intellectual property law firm in Ramat Gan, Israel. Currently
associated with the firm but working only on my own patents. 1999-2011,
CEO, UniversityOfHealthcare.com, and UniversityOfBusiness.com, for
web-based management and healthcare training. 1986-2005, Clinical Practice
in Ophthalmology, Los Angeles, CA. Included managing small medical group.
Maintained contracts with 100 care centers. 1978, 1979, Summer work
researching neurotransmitter pharmacology, National Institutes of Health,
laboratory of Dr. Irwin Kopin, Washington, D.C. This was one of the world's
top labs in catecholamine and antidepressant basic research and included a
Nobel Prize winner. 1977-1978, Research project with World Health
Organization in Geneva on health care delivery in developing countries.
Culminated in the presentation of a paper for the department of psychiatry
on health staff utilization in developing countries.
Patents, Publications, Certifications, and Awards

Around 30 PCT patents in various aspects of renewable energy, as part of
the development of Leviathan Energy. Variety of patents in various areas of
software and mechanics, abandoned in order to concentrate on clean energy
patents. Earlier patents in ophthalmology. Authored and edited over 300
books and CD/e-learning courses, many of which won four and five star
reviews. Also several ophthalmology journal articles. “Wind
Energizer”—front cover article for Windtech magazine, September, 2009. 2010
Cleantech Open: second and third place for the best clean technologies in
Israel. 2011: Wind Tulip invention on display in Bloomfield Science Museum
in Jerusalem as one of Israel’s top 45 inventions. Certified in Microsoft
Back Office Small Business Server (certified from completing Microsoft
Course #1042). Appeared as a lecturer and expert on healthcare and clean
energy in many capacities, such as: Fox Business News and Bloomberg, expert
on energy; Terranaut, expert on wind energy for a forum at the Council for
Foreign Relations in Washington, DC. Guest lecturer at Greentech College,
Tel Aviv University Business School, and Weizman Institute of Science Clore
Science Foundation lecture

Course Series: Executive’s Guide to Patent Strategy, Summer, 2011 and 2012



*Dr. Jacob Krispin*



Dr. Krispin is the President of VorCat, Inc. and Krispin Technologies, Inc.
(KTI), two small businesses that he founded in 2001 and 1995, respectively.
Since the foundation of KTI and Vorcat, Inc., Jacob served as the PI and
Program Manager on multiple contracts and grants that supported the
development of innovative Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technologies,
e.g., the Implicit-Explicit Godunov scheme, projection methods and,
starting in 2001, the Vorcat technology. In addition to providing
consulting services to the federal government and commercial entities,
Jacob was the PI on DOD/DTRA and DOE SBIR Phase I and Phase II contracts,
on a $2M NIST/ATP award, as well as other SBIR phase I awards from
DOD/DTRA, NASA, NSF, DOE, DARPA, DOD/Army and DOD/Navy. Prior to starting
his own businesses, Jacob was a senior scientist at Enig Associates, Inc.,
where he worked as the PI on NSF Phase I and Phase II SBIR awards, NASA
SBIR as well as other research programs. He has twenty five years of
experience in the R&D and Application of high-order accurate, numerical
schemes and scientific computing and ten years of experience in the R&D of
missile aerodynamics, ranging from low to high speed flows,
high-angle-of-attack aerodynamics, and program management.



Dr. Krispin served as a Visiting Professor with the Chemical Engineering
Department at the University of Maryland (UMD) and with the Department of
Mathematics at UMD, he is an Associate Fellow with the American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and he is a referee for AIAA
journals, Journal of Computational Physics, SIAM journal for Scientific and
Statistical Computing, International Journal for Numerical Methods in
Fluids, and is a panelist on NSF grant review boards.  At the time of this
writing, Jacob is the PI on a SBIR Phase I grant from NSF that aims at
offering Vorcat’s moving boundary capability in HPC cloud environment and a
SBIR from NAVAIR that investigates the interactions between helicopter
blades and the rotor-wake vortices.



*Education*

Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD,
1987.

M.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering, IIT, Israel Institute of Technology
(Technion), Haifa, Israel, 1984.

B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering, Summa cum laude, IIT, Israel Institute
of Technology (Technion), Haifa, Israel, 1977.



*Research and Professional Experience*

President, Krispin Technologies, Inc. and VorCat, Inc., 1996 - Present,
2001 - Present, respectively.

Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland at
College Park, 1989 and 1993 - 1996.

Senior Scientist, Enig Associates, Inc., White Oak, Maryland, 1990 - 1993.

Research Associate and Group Leader (since 1980), RAFAEL, Israel Armament
Development Authority, Haifa, Israel, 1977 - 1989.



Dr. Krispin's Vorcat publications are available for download from
www.vorcat.com. He has authored and co-authored over 30 publications.
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