Scientific Staff
The Power Technology Scientific Team consists of a successful group of retired professionals, all of whom have come out of retirement to provide their expertise and experience in developing our innovative technologies. These men are all financially secure in retirement but were excited about the possibilities of developing an environmentally friendly battery and our other products.
Larry Bryant
Electronic Engineer
Larry Bryant, 57, is the company's project electronic engineer. He retired from the United States Air Force in 1978 after 20 years of service and numerous awards for technical abilities. As an expert in electronic and electromechanical technology, his last military assignment was an manager of a specialized research and prototype facility for quick response development of electronic, electromechanical and electro-optical devices for classified applications. After leaving the united States Air Force, Mr. Bryant was employed as a Senior Project Engineer for the Space Division of Emerson Electric of St. Louis, Missouri. At Emerson Electric he was involved in a number of projects related to the design and development of radar, microwave, and electro-optical infrared detection and ranging systems for military applications.
James Corbett
Electronics Engineer
Mr. Corbett has extensive background in developing electronic devices and broad experience in hands-on test programs. His primary focus will be the Self-Powered Water/Moisture Sensor, including developing and executing the test programs and creating the testing equipment and protocol to produce a marketable product.
Frank Farrell
Senior Chemical Engineer
Mr. Farrell has more than 50 years of multi-discipline engineering experience specializing in chemical, system, and consulting engineering. He has a strong background in solution-oriented research and development for science and in solving engineering problems with industrial and aerospace companies. His areas of expertise include general chemistry, electrochemistry, cryogenics, powder and open cell metallurgy, polymer science and technology, electronics, photolithography, integrated circuitry, solar energy, thermoelectricity, water analysis and treatment, propellants, biomedical, diagnostics, and laboratory equipment and protocol. Following 5 years in the Army Engineering Corps, Mr. Farrell worked and/or consulted for Linde Air Products Company, Bakelite Company, Union Carbide Plastics, Aerojet General Corporation, Grand Central Rocket Company, Rocket Power of Gabriel Corporation, Astropower of Tally Industries, Lockheed Propulsion Company, General Fluidice Corporation, and Westgate Research Corporation. Mr. Farrell holds a bachelor's degree in science from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Ernest Rogers, Ph.D.
Engineer
Dr. Rogers has 30-plus years of experience in research and product development, especially using computational analysis for solving practical problems relating to physics and chemistry. He has used computer modeling to develop rotating machines--an automobile transmission, a centrifuge for cleaning up oil spills in water, and wind turbines. He has used mathematics and computer analysis to achieve advances in chemistry, such as improved formulas for rocket propellants, and to predict movement of contaminants in the environment. In recent years he consulted with various companies across the U.S. to improve their products and manufacturing processes. Dr. Rogers was Senior Engineer at Thiokol Inc. (space shuttle solid fuel rocket motor program), Division Manager and Director of Engineering for the Energy Division of Felt Products Company, Chief Engineer on a Department of Energy project for wind turbine development, Staff Scientist at Aerojet Nuclear Corporation (reactor safety research), and Guest Scientist at the National Bureau of Standards (research into high-energy rocket fuels). Dr. Rogers holds a B.S. in physics and chemistry from Fresno State University, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Utah (high-pressure physics). He is the author of a number of U.S. patents and several published articles.
Charles Warn
Chief Chemical Engineer
Charles "Chuck" Warn, 70, is the chief chemical engineer for the project. He has over forty years of experience in development and project engineering and design expertise in a variety of different disciplines. His past experience includes working with General Motors and Parker-Hannifin with high performance aircraft fuel systems, life support systems and extravehicular activity systems for all spacecraft through Apollo 11 with Airesearch and Rockwell International, and developing and testing detector and diagnostic equipment with EG & G Inc. Specific experience to Power Technology includes project engineering oversight of silver-oxide batteries for spacecraft, mining equipment battery system procurement engineering, battery evaluation for down-hole testing at the Nevada Test Site, development of line-replaceable units for the space shuttle (including energy storage systems), and evaluation of the future of high-energy flywheels compared to storage batteries.
