Experimental Aerodynamics

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Filament Technologies
Our Entry in
Sponsored by the Center for Space Resources at
the Colorado School of Mines
Mars Society Presentation February 27, 2007

• Experimental Aerodynamics Concepts Group
• Georgia Institute of Technology

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Competition Guidelines

• For student created, managed, and owned ventures.
  
• Students must (1) have played a major role in
  conceiving the venture, (2) have key management
  roles in the venture, and (3) own significant
  equity in the venture.
• Each business plan proposal is to identify
  business opportunities related to lunar and
  cislunar (Earth-Moon system) space exploration
  and development.
• Includes ventures operating in space as well as
  ventures developing technologies that will have
  space implications although the initial
  application will be on Earth.
• New products or services proposed within these
  guidelines could include
• the mining and extraction of resources
• the construction of scientific facilities
• the use of lunar resources for construction,
  manufacturing, or power generation
• novel uses of the space environment or location
• commercially-provided space transportation and
  power
• Preference to proposals that demonstrate
  near-term (3-5 years) feasibility in markets for
  either (a) space-based activities or (b)
  Earth-based activities leading to space-based
  activities.

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Filament Technologies

• Selected as one of top 10 (semi-finalists)
• Expected peer group BUSINESS schools and eng.
  Schools from the top universities!
• Final Business Plans due May 1st
• Competition in Golden, CO, May 19-21
• Present on May 20th with 4 Finalists announced
• Finalists present again on May 21st
• Prize
• Grand Champion - 25,000 with potential 100,000
  investment
• Other three Finalists - 3,000
• Finalists will receive travel grants to NASA
  Headquarters, where they will present their
  ventures to government and industry leaders in
  summer 2007.

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Filament Technologies
at the Interface between Renewable Energy and
Space Resources
Opportunity at the Interface between Renewable
Energy market and Space Resource RD Hybrid
micro-level devices suitable for a single family
or small shop-owner offer vast potential for
energy independence.
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Vision
Filament Technologies will exploit the
opportunity at the interface of Renewable Energy
and Space technologies, through a 3-phase
evolution

• Innovator of Mass-market Hybrid Micro-Generators
  integrating multiple Renewable Energy technologies

• Technology Partner / knowledge consultant to
  develop large systems
• integrating renewable energy and space
  technologies partnering with
• communities and industry

• Knowledge Leader in developing large systems at
  the interface of
• energy and space resources

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Phase 1 Products Adapting AE and Energy
Technologies

• Wind Solar
• Solar Biogas
• Solar/Biogas/Fuel Cell
• Solar Thermal Management

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Phase 1 Products Adapting Advanced Technologies
Vapor-Compression Solar Refrigerator
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Photobiological water splitting
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• Other technologies
• Waste Heat Recovery / conversion System 6
• Microreactor technology 8
• Personal Internet Communicator9
• Autothermal Reforming Hydrogen from syngas 10

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Reverse Water Gas Shift Reactor
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Phase 2
Family Renewable Energy
Retail Beamed Power
Renewable Energy Project Partner
Community Energy Independence
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Phase 3
ISRU Marketing
Space Power Grid
Knowledge Leader in Large Space Resource Systems
Space Infrastructure
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The Space Connection

• Many advanced concepts for lunar, Mars and deep
  space exploration and human habitation are
  intimately linked with renewable energy
  technologies.
• energy storage
• fuel generation
• robotic in-situ resource exploitation devices
• life-support systems
• beamed energy systems
• Huge RD investments and the best talent at the
  leading edge of technology needed
• Opening the mass market to these products will
  provide a large and lasting opportunity for our
  enterprise
• Our proposed approach advances space concepts,
  while avoiding the traditional constraints and
  obstacles faced by space-based enterprises.

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Company Positions Open!

• Financial Analyst
• Understanding of basic financial principles and
  company management
• Analyze market resources
• Analyze financial reports, extract-required
  information, research and consolidate information
  for preparation of needed budget estimates
• Perform stock market analysis and outline stock
  allocation
• ISRU and Space Resource Analyst
• Research In-Situ Source Utilization (ISRU)
  applications
• Determine feasible space applications with direct
  link to renewable energy
• Develop technology progression roadmap for Phase
  3 of vision

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Questions?

• Contact thilini.rangedera_at_gatech.edu