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Energy
& Climate Change - CO2
reductions and sustainable transport. THE
PROJECT TEAM WILL CREATE THE GLOBAL STANDARDS BLUEPRINTS. CIVIL
ENGINEERING, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH, SOLUTIONS & DESIGN. GLOBAL
STANDARDS AGENCY (FGOSA) TO LICENSE CIRCUIT BUILDERS & OWNERS. BUSINESS-FORECASTS,
CIRCUIT-FINANCING and COMPUTER MODELS. Pipeline-capsule, underground, rapid, electric, freight transport.
GOODS-IN and WASTE-OUT computer-guided, lightweight capsules, travelling
through dozens of interlinking 150 km circuits serving farms, producers,
processors, packagers, wholesalers, retailers and recycling units. A typical dense-urban
150 km circuit will connect approximately 400 terminals at senders’ &
receivers’ premises. Freight transfer depots will transfer cargos to and from
traditional lorries, vans, pallets, waste-trucks and trains. Regions served
by FOODTUBES will benefit from substantial road, rail & air traffic
decongestion, from faster and smaller deliveries and cleaner street-level
air. FOODTUBES-Circuits will be designed for Dense-Urban, Urban, Rural and
Wilderness regions. Diverse specialist capsules will be designed to carry a
wide range of cargos from farm produce to ready-for-sale supermarket goods. Pipe-Terminals will be installed at
supermarkets, shopping malls and markets, colleges, schools, large offices
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CO2: 92% of the fuel used to transport food
and “supermarket consumer goods” moves the vehicles – only 8% moves the
cargos. Substantial annual savings, globally from 1 to 4 billion tonnes
of CO2, and costs savings, with faster, targeted deliveries, could
be achieved, if the global food industry installed regional, and in due
course, international, food pipeline systems delivering goods direct to
supermarket and other loading bays.
FOODTUBES capsules could be powered by air, other fluids or
linear-induction-motors. Of the savings, 23% come from replacing road-lorries
(HGVs) and vans with lightweight capsules, and 77% from the traffic
decongestion impact, freeing all traffic. MWVs: Society
transports water and food daily. The heaviest of these cargos, nearly 200
times heavier than the food transported, is water, mostly transported in
pipelines, not in rail or road vehicles. Food could also be transported in
pipelines; in lightweight capsules. The engineering principle of MWV (minimum
weight vehicles) reduces the weight of the vehicles relative to the cargos.
Pipelines are the ultimate MWV being motionless “conveyors” which pump their
cargos with little energy, noise or pollution. Pipelines inexpensively,
continuously and efficiently deliver water hundreds of kilometers and in and
out of most buildings. Oil and gas pipelines
transport their heavy cargo long distances, across difficult, wild terrain -
and safely, out of sight, under and through urban areas. OPERATION: Food
pipeline-capsules can be powered by Linear Induction Motors, and/or pneumatically,
with the cargos contained in electronically addressed, high speed,
lightweight capsules (e.g. 1 meter diameter x 2 metres long), which navigate
by signalling ahead to direction gates. Like existing large diameter water,
gas and oil pipes, FOODTUBES and the capsules can be built by local
economies. The network/s will be computer controlled and systems standardised
globally. If most food-road-rail transport was replaced, the equivalent
capsules will use 40 to 80 times less energy and will greatly reduce
street-level pollution and free-up congested roads, to the benefit of
all. Operated as a business; an
average FOODTUBES CIRCUIT will be 150klm long, serving several hundred
terminals or customers’ locations; renting capsule space will be highly
profitable and competitive. CAPITAL: Installing
FOODTUBES is likely to cost less than continuously repairing existing,
heavily used and congested major roads - damage caused mainly by HGVs of, in
Europe, up to 6 axles and 44 tonnes laden weight – and even heavier in the
USA. Like large diameter water, gas and oil pipes, FOODTUBES can be buried
for long distances, be laid underwater, linked internationally and take
shorter routes than roads take to farms, processors, distribution hubs and
supermarkets. A typical 150 km
circuit, owned privately or as a public utility, may cost $500M to install
and will last for many decades. Cargo-capsule charges could be 5 times less
than equivalent road-freight and cost 90% less to transmit; making each
circuit a highly profitable enterprise.
FOODTUBES could
become the most effective way to move food and consumer goods within and
between regions and will address issues including Free-Trade, Food-Miles,
Food-Mountains, Disaster Relief, Food Cooperatives, Global-Warming and
Street-Level-Pollution. CONTACT: http://www.noelhodson.com/index_files/foodtubes-project-team.htm or telephone: Noel Hodson, CEO,
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FOODTUBES EXECUTIVE TEAM – SEPTEMBER 09 |
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Dr.
Jonathan C FOODTUBES Freight Logistics Consultant. Email: j.n.carter@imperial.ac.uk Director
of Container World (transport routing). Lecturer,
Reservoir
Engineer, AEA Technology 1989-1993 Lecturer
in Mathematics, PhD
Semiconductor Physics, Design
optimisation, British Shipbuilders 1984-1985 BSc
Mathematics, Research
Interests Application
of evolutionary optimisation methods (Genetic Algorithms, Genetic
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Sarah HADLAND LLB Partner - IPR - Pitmans Lawyers, Sarah Hadland is an experienced,
international, intellectual property rights (IPR) lawyer. Sarah’s clients
include multinational public companies and small new-start clients. Sarah qualified as a solicitor in
1995 in specialist intellectual property firm, Bird & Bird. From 1996 – 2006 she specialized in
intellectual property law at Eversheds in Qualifications: Degree in law from the Degree in French from the Diploma in intellectual property
law from the Member of the INTA Parallel
Imports Associate Member of ITMA. Sarah has experience in both
contentious and non-contentious matters, including licensing, agreements for
the exploitation of intellectual property rights, management of IP disputes
particularly in relation to design rights, trade marks, domain names and
copyright and management of substantial IP portfolios. DD: +44 (0) 118 957 0294 Email: Shadland@pitmans.com |
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Noel
HODSON, Foodtubes Coordinator – CEO Email: noel@noelhodson.com SW2000
Intelligent Transport – FOODTUBES Coordinator 16 Brookside, Noel
Hodson, director SW2000 Intelligent Transport (SW2000) is a professional
project planner and project manager with 30 years experience. Noel has a wide
range of practical experiences including coordinating EC IST projects. He has
taught Project Management and Business-Planning at business schools and has
trained many business consultants in these skills. Noel
was Managing Director and Production Director of Mallalieu Engineering, a
motor vehicle prototype workshop which developed Microdot, possibly the
world’s first hybrid petrol/electric car – giving him an enduring interest in
energy and fuel efficient transport. Following
25 years as founding and managing partner in an accountancy practice, then as
a Business Expansion Specialist, including promoting an £80M Oxford Research
Science Park in conjunction with Tel
+44 (0) 1865 760994 email noel@noelhodson.com. |
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Don
HUGHSTON FOODTUBES – Business Development. Email: dhsage1@aol.com Don
is interested in scalable, international, innovative businesses and social
initiatives. He has worked on several
continents in varied industries and works with and is retained by venture
capitalists, bankers, politicians and industrialists in the |
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Professor FW TAYLOR. FOODTUBES – Technology team leader – Chairman designate. Email: fwt@atm.ox.ac.uk Fred Taylor is Halley Professor
of Physics at Professor Taylor will lead the
scientific, atmospheric impact analysis for FOODTUBES, with emphasis on the
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Dave Wetzel FRSA FCILT FOODTUBES – Transport & Email: davewetzel42@googlemail.com Transport, Public Finance, Local Government and
Sustainable Land Policy Consultant Dave
Wetzel’s experience is broadly at an operational and high policy level on
transport, local government, public finance, land use planning and innovative
finance measures involving land value capture. A Fellow of both the He has
considerable and varied experience in: Inter-modal and alternative transport policy
development, planning and delivery; The development of incentivising land use policies
to reduce urban sprawl, derelict land and carbon emissions; The development of economic solutions to the funding
of public transport services and future transport developments through
capturing land values, using economic theory and examples. His
career has been largely devoted to the development of sustainable,
affordable, accessible and reliable public transport. Together with others,
he has developed an implementation theory that public services like transport
can be efficiently, fairly and equitably financed through land value capture.
This has recently been partly adopted by the British Government for funding
£5 billion from commercial property rates for the new £15.9 billion rail line
across He has
met Government Ministers and their advisers over many years, submitted
evidence to Government enquiries and is currently an expert adviser to the
UITP (International Association of Public Transport), Transport Economics Appointed
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Dr. Juan e-mail: eduardo@commercenet.org TEL:+.34.91.434.1149
Fax:+34.91.552.8006 GSM: +34.629.055.697 Plaza de Reyes Magos, 12-1B,
28007 Madrid Dr. Barrera, of the Fundacion
Universidad-Empresa de Madrid (FUE), is the FOODTUBES executive responsible
for creating the FOODTUBES Global Standards Agency and for Project
dissemination, publicity and conferences. CAREER SUMMARY: More than 20 years of
diversified, world‑based, and result‑oriented international
business and high‑level
government experience in areas of advanced technologies at multilateral
lending agencies (World Bank, Inter American Development Bank and as a
consultant/expert for United Nations, European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development and the European Member of the Internet Society
(ISOC) Member of the Spanish Chapter of
the Club of Ex- staff member of the World
Bank (IBRD) On the academic side, he holds a
MBA, a PhD and an Engineering degree. Fully bi-lingual Spanish-English
and working knowledge of French. Present position: International President of the
European External advisor to the European
Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) External Reviewer/Evaluator/Rapporteur
of the European Strategic advisor to La Caixa,
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Professor
Collier Professor Collier will co-ordinate the work of visual
designers and of design competitions for FOODTUBES and will interpret the
instructions of those system owners and users, such as TESCO or Carrefour,
who will want distinctive cargo-capsules, perhaps displaying advertisements
and certainly indicating different technical types of capsules and special
handling instructions. |
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Managing Director of Force Engineering - Force Engineering
was founded in 1979 to promote sales, development and use of environmentally
friendly Linear Induction Motors (LIMs). Force has supplied and advised many
companies throughout the world on conveying, transportation, people moving,
metal separation, and other LIM applications. The company is firmly
established as a world leader in LIM technology. Force Engineering Ltd is a major player in the world of linear
induction motors. Managed by Alan Foster since 1979, Force has now supplied
over 18,000 Linear Induction Motors (LIMs) worldwide. Principal applications
include people movers, roller coasters, extrusion pullers, baggage handling
systems, postal sorters, and military equipment. All LIMs are purpose
designed and built in-house for each customer by a team of specialist
engineers. 9 November, 2007 |
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Andrew FRAYLING - Andrew was trained in Economics
at From 1995 to 1998 he worked full
time at Protocol |
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Brian Graves Director of Engineering Technology Transfer Team, Imperial Innovations. Brian leads a team of commercialisation professionals which manage the identification of commercially valuable Intellectual Property (IP), development of an IP protection strategy, commercialisation strategy, licensing and initial formation of early stage companies involving engineering and physical sciences technology principally from Imperial College London and other sources particularly in the field of energy and the environment.
After joining Imperial Innovations in 2001, Brian has been involved in the formation of over 20 early stage companies, many more licence deals and winning externally funded contracts from various corporate and publicly funded research intensive organisations. Brian
is widely experienced in business development and marketing in the
engineering industry, having previously worked for John Crane Ltd, part of
Smiths Group plc, most recently in business strategy and analysis. Before
that he was based in Brian
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Edward C.
Hoagland III Mr. Hoagland is an experienced
entrepreneur having worked in international management and political
development for independent and family holding companies with worldwide
assets. He quickly recognizes problems in troubled companies and then
provides global strategic and management plans for greater profitability. The
assets under his management were in such diverse areas as portfolio
management, hospitality, real estate and land development, international
low-income housing, light-weight aggregate, computer chip construction, and
international franchise development. His natural leadership talents, people
skills, and negotiation abilities work best when collaborating with highly
motivated teams, together transforming steadfast progress into
solid profitability. Additional Synopsis Mr. Hoagland is an experienced
entrepreneur having worked in international management and political
development for independent and family holding companies with worldwide
assets. He is known for his ability to quickly recognize problems in
troubled companies and then provide global strategic and management plans for
greater profitability. The assets under his management were in such
diverse areas as portfolio management, hospitality, real estate and land
development, international low-income housing, light-weight aggregate,
computer chip construction, and international franchise development. Mr. Hoagland has found, managed
and trained management for companies with annual gross revenues between $1.0
million to $2.2 billion with overall responsibility in excess of $6.7 billion
in annual gross revenues. He has initiated and negotiated mergers,
acquisitions and bankruptcies ranging from $5.0 - $750.0 million in values
and founded several start-up ventures. He has strong management and
negotiation abilities with leadership and people skills that work well with
highly motivated teams driving towards solid profitability. In addition to traditional
operational management and financial services, Mr. Hoagland served as the
liaison for internal and external family issues. He dealt with
multi-generational planning to grow assets and minimize taxes. He
brought teams of professionals together to provide asset protection
strategies and sophisticated solutions in estate management. In addition to sitting on the Board of Directors for numerous domestic
and international companies, Mr. Hoagland has served as a board member for
several not-for-profit organizations. Among those he served as the
President of the Board of Trustees of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the
Leukemia Society of America, a board member with Adoption Alliance, St.
Mary’s Academy and the Montessori School of Denver. |
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Welcome
to GL Industrial Services UK Ltd. GL
Industrial Services UK Ltd is a global engineering consultancy, service and
solution provider, supporting clients in the gas, oil, water and electric
industries. Previously trading as
Advantica, the company became part of the international GL Group –
Germanischer Lloyd AG – in August 2009. |
Dr Robert JUDD, Senior
Consultant at GL INDUSTRIAL SERVICES and STONER SOFTWARE Robb Judd, representing
GL INDUSTRIAL SERVICES and its software unit STONER-SOFTWARE is an executive
in the design of pipeline systems. THE
COMPANY Dr
Robert Judd. Dr Judd has gained broad
experience of the gas and energy industries over a period of 20 years, with
emphasis on technology development. This has ranged from upstream gas
processing through to storage and downstream energy technologies. Much of Dr Judd’s work has focused on
developing, coordinating and delivering technical projects, many of these cross-business,
cross-sector, collaborative and multi-centred. GL
INDUSTRIAL SERVICES was originally formed in the early 1970’s, to operate
British Gas’ (BG) extensive R&D and technical programmes, including the
development of the bespoke software used by Transco in network
management. Through the purchase in
2001 of Stoner, a US-based technology company, GL INDUSTRIAL SERVICES
consulting services and bespoke software applications were complemented by
Stoner’s market-leading off-the-shelf software products for electricity,
natural gas, water and petroleum industries. The company’s solutions improve
clients’ knowledge of network performance and customer behaviour, providing
the foundations for direct improvement of financial performance, operational
efficiency, customer service and regulatory compliance. Leading energy and water delivery companies
are working with GL INDUSTRIAL SERVICES to implement integrated solutions,
allowing them to rapidly determine, distribute and act on network performance
knowledge. The company supplies a wide
range of consultancy services to support the planning, design and operation
of oil and gas installations from up-stream through transmission,
distribution and product utilisation.
This includes the application of advanced engineering expertise,
hazard and risk management, integrity management, asset optimisation,
legislative compliance, metering and due diligence. |
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Professor
Henry Liu. President, Freight Pipeline
Henry
Liu can claim with justification to be one of the most experienced
scientists, industrialists and experts in pipeline-capsule transport. A
search of the Internet will show his body of work. Prior
to starting up FPC in 2001, Dr. Liu was Professor of Civil Engineering, and
Director of Capsule Pipeline Research Center (CPRC), University of
Missouri-Columbia (UMC). CPRC was funded by the National Science Foundation
for 9 years as a State/Industry University Cooperative Research Center,
during which Dr. Liu served as the Director and led a team of faculty and
students to perform extensive interdisciplinary research in capsule
pipelines, including hydraulic capsule pipeline (HCP), pneumatic capsule
pipeline (PCP), and coal log pipeline (CLP). |
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Teddy Watson has had a
multi-faceted career in the reinsurance industry, with over 20 years as a
director in |
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EXPERTS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED SINCE 2006 |
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Katarzyna Rzeplińska -
Rykała, MSc. |
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Agnieszka
Sprońska, M.A., has graduated from the Faculty of Philology at |
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Dr Mateusz Turkowski,
Assistant
Professor at the Faculty of Mechatronics of Warsaw University of Technology
with specialization in new generation of flow-meters with mechanical
oscillator, used mainly in hydrology. In recent years he has been involved in
development of rotational flow-meters sensors and laser transducers for flow
and pressure. Dr. Turkowski is a lecturer at Warsaw University of Technology
in the field of Industrial Metrology. He is also a co-editor of “Pomiary,
Automatyka i Robotyka” journal. He has some 50 cited papers in refereed
Polish and international scientific and technical journals, as well as
conference proceedings, and is the author of a number of scientific
textbooks. |
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William Watson BSc (Hons)
Engineering Science, MBA Pipeline Engineering
Consultant. Managing Director, Pipeline
Engineering (PE). The
www.pipelineengineering.com |
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P.
Brink Weaver Graduated
from Ryerson Institute of Technology, Spent
5 years at Lamson Conveyors of Canada, working on designing the Electrical,
estimating, starting up and servicing Automatic Pneumatic Tube Systems. At the same time, set up all of the above
mentioned departments. Wrote
installation and service manuals, set-up standard manuals and drawings for
both the Canadian Division and Head office in Pneumatic
Tube Systems were first made by Lamson Corp., 200 years ago. In 1970, I founded Thorne
Pneumatic systems providing the same services as mentioned above, plus
developed a line of Single Line Reversing Pneumatic Tube Systems, both point
to point and automatic (multi-station) systems. I patented a switching device and a
“clamshell” carrier for Pneumatic Tube Systems. In
1975, Thorne began selling Central and Portable Industrial Vacuum Cleaning
Systems, almost the same technology as Pneumatic Tube Systems, except instead
of moving a carrier, it’s particulate. In
1985, Pneutrans Systems Ltd. was founded to sell and design Pneumatic Capsule
Pipelines, exactly the same technology as Pneumatic Tube Systems. This required development of a very
comprehensive computer program. I have
presented and demonstrated the Pneumatic Capsule Pipeline for the last 10
years to the Over
the years I have displayed/demonstrated Pneutrans Systems Ltd. Pneumatic
Capsule Pipelines at many Mining and Coal tradeshows, conferences and safety
expositions. This includes six papers
given on the subject of Pneumatic Capsule Pipelines. Pneutrans
Systems Ltd. is currently working towards their first Pneumatic Capsule
Pipeline order. |
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Wojciech
Winiarski, MSc. |
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Jeff Farrow – Executive
R&D Engineer, THAMES |
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Ray Hicks – Executive
engineer, |
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Jeff Hunter – Director,
SPORTSWORLD GROUP |
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Dr.
Education: Work Experience: Professor of Economics and
Medicine, Research Associate, Chairman, President and Vice Chairman, Sr. Vice President, Sr. Vice President, President, Managing Director,
International, Capital One 1997-2004 Board Directorships: Workers
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