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Chairman:
Charles H. Tankersley, aka: CHTANK and/or TANK, was born with an
insatiable curiosity. He became embroiled in the day to day
struggles to build a career in Engineering and provide for the
needs of his family. Now the children are all grown and gone, he is
retired and free to know for the sake of knowing and to explore
those things that he dreamed of as a boy. The flames of curiosity
still burns brightly. Tank provides the leadership to search for
the cutting edge technology to provide Sustainabilility Engineered
while striving to protect the environment for the people.
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ON EDUCATION: "Clearly and beyond all doubt, the only
purpose and reason for life is to learn. All living beings, plant
or animal, that ever was, is, or ever will be throughout the
universe must adapt or perish as with the dinosaur. Yet it is the
fate of humanity, above all, to have the consciousness to
understand and give reason to life."
Thoughts by Charles H.
Tankersley
List of Links to Continued
Education via Distance Learning
- Find A School: was
created by Mike Viron while still a student in college. Mike a good
friend of CHTANK and serves on the staff of DEEPSPACE. Here one can find an
Internet link to all the Colleges and Universities of the
world.
- Jimmy's
Blog and his list, http://education.jimmyr.com/
provides links to free Internet education sites, There is no excuse
for not continuing an education regardless of one's
background.
- MIT
Open Courseware is especially important for those who wish to
study the science and technology of today.
- The EDGE is included here as
a learning tool in philosophy. Although it is not affiliated with
an College or University, it does represent the philosophic
thinking of some of our best minds. One may not agree with their
ideas but, regardless, it does open some avenues of
understanding.
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STARSHIPS: - A physics adventure
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ECOLOGY: - Saving our earth
- SEProjects:
What is Sustainability Engineering or Engineering for
Sustainability?
The Center for Sustainable
Engineering gives a complete description of Sustainability
Engineering. This is the definition in a nutshell:
"Sustainable Engineering may be defined as engineering for human
development that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs (Bruntland Commission, 1987)."
Sustainability Engineered Projects are a freely available voluntary
effort to provide alternatives to the high cost fossil fuels that
pollute the atmosphere, water, and earth, to fight global warming,
and within the guidelines of the Center for Sustainable
Engineering.
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MESS-SEProject My Earthbound Space Station - a
Sustainability Engineered Project.
- APIX-SEProject
Agro-Polymer Industry Complex - a Sustainability Engineered
Project. INVITATION
- HARP-SEProject
Houston Area Recycling Proposal - a Sustainability Engineered
Project.
- PAL-SEProject
Projects Avaluable for hands-on Learning -
Sustainability Engineered Projects for
hands-on experience with sustainability engineering for 4H Clubs,
FFA, and school aged children everywhere.
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- ULTIMATE
LAWNMOWER Build a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Lawnmower.
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BIO DIGESTION Making Natural Gas in your septic
tank.
- FAST
Using Fuel Alcohol Still Technology
- CHP
A simple Combined Heat/Power unit for home heating and electric
power.
- SYNGAS
Using steam Reformation to convert solid waste into fuel
gases.
- SUN OVEN: Concentrating the Sun's energy to bake a County Fair
prize winning cake or fry up a chicken dinner with the sun.
- SOLAR HOT WATER HEATER: Heat the water with the Sun for your
next shower. Build an outdoor shower for washing off the salt after
your next visit to the Galveston Beach.
- SOLAR HYDROGEN: Use Solar Cells to make Hydrogen from
water.
- WIND TURBINE: An experimental desigh for creating a wind
turbine to drive a oil hydrolic motor to power gernerator that is
at grade level. The wind turbine will be designed as a "pusher"
type mounted on the top of a 20 foot high ham radio tower at the
back of our home.
- ALIEN
REPORTS: - science FACTION (faction = to use as much
up-to-date science and technology as is possible) novel in very
early stages.
- Report
no. 1, Space Stations:
- Report
no. 2, Drones, Space Tugs, Shuttles, and Transports:
- Report
no. 3, Why Space, Early History:
- Report
no. 4, The Science of Space Colonization:
- Report
no. 5, Discovery of new species:
- Report
no. 6, Government and civil control:
- Report
no. 7, Religion and the after life:
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