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Dr. Max F. Platzer was a member of Wernher von Braun’s SATURN space launch vehicle development team for six years, Head of the aeromechanics research group at the Lockheed Georgia Research Laboratory for four years, and a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, for thirty four years. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of California Davis. Dr. Platzer is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is editor of the international review journal “Progress in Aerospace Sciences”.
报告摘要:
The solution of the global energy and climate change problems critically depends on the availability and accessibility of renewable energy sources. As far as wind energy is concerned, considerable progress has been achieved in the development of land and off-shore based wind turbines over the past three decades. However, the greatest sources of wind energy remain untapped, that is, the wind over the oceans. Professor Platzer will present a proposal to convert the vast ocean wind power into hydrogen by means of large sailing ships equipped with hydropower generators and seawater electrolyzers. He will present recent results in the analysis of this energy ship concept. |