I am, of course, Rand Weeks,
and my company is called Alternative Energy Design
Associates (AEDA). You may refer to me as a
eco-engineer ~ I work in Geotherapy,
with the processes of Biomicry and Ecological
Restoration. (WWW.AENERGYDESIGN.COM is
the website, and I can be reached at
drxsunshine@gmail.com)
As you know, I designed and
built integrated multi-input Nat enegy systems and
electronics for Reid's 1kD Ocean Odyssey. For the
last few years, I have been working with solar and
wind energy applications to reef renewal.
Solar wind and water (wave and
other current devices) energy is applied to
saltwater to effect the growth of calcium carbonate
(limestone, or the substance of all reefs and shells
of water creatures). That process is known as
BioRock. You can find explainations of the accretion
process, as it is called, here:
Those reefs are either of the
coral variety, in warm saltwater, or the oysters
here in New York City. In New York City (College
Park, Queens) we have also recently been
experimenting in applying that electrical field to
larger areas of wetlands and it has been shown to
assist in Spartina and other fauna survival in
severely polluted areas. In August of last year, I
traveled to Merida Mexico to deliver a paper on
BioRock and oysters and wetland rejuvenation at the
SER (Society of Ecological Restoration) world
ecological restoration conference (http://www.ser2011.org/en/).
I traveled to Arno Atoll in
the Marshall Islands with
a gentleman named Thomas J Goreau, who is the
Coordinator of the United Nations Commission on
Sustainable Development Partnership in New
Technologies for Small Island Developing States. He
is also the patent owner for BioRock, as well as
being the world's foremost expert on Geotherapy. He
is also the scientist who oversees and helps direct
the work I am doing with biorock and oysters in
Queens. I was the electrical liason and installer of
a GORLOV wind turbine (see picture below) to power
what will eventiually be the world's largest biorock
reef installation.
I am the Harbor School's
energy design associate ~ I designed a power system
which runs an underwater pump in the FLUPSY which
blows water on incubational oysters to help
facilitate and speed their growth. A single Flupsy
silo set can house and stimulate 500,000 to 5
million oysters per season. The Governor's Island
FLupsy has been in continuos operation since the
fall of 2009, and the Harbor School was a featured
particiant in the recent MOMA/PS1 "Rising Currents"
exhibition on the 21st century plans for the
NYC waterfront (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1031)
Oysters are an imprtant part
of the ecosystem not just because they are good to
eat. They help filter the water ~ An adult
oyster can
filter as much as 50
gallons of water a day.
The oysters I am helping to grow aren't for
consumption, anyway ~ they are meant to clean NYC
waters as well as otherwise help the benthic
habitat. Oysters were also once a very important
part of the NY food, commerce as well as natural eco
systems.
Hopefully, this is enough
information with which for us to start a good
conversation.
Please give me a ring tonight
with any questions... I am around.
R
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Rand Weeks
Chief of
Design/Install,
(AEDA) Alternative Energy Design Associates
12 Hall Street #8
Brooklyn, NY 11205
“We are in a fight against time hour by hour, week
by week, day by day. The solution must be swift, and
sustained.” Anne Lauvergon, AREVA.
Every person must decide whether to walk in the
light of creative altruism or the darkness of
selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's most
persistent and urgent question is, what are you
doing for others? (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Innovative Alternative Energy
Design and implementation.
Green Designer and engineer.
Installer and builder of
innovative alternative energy
concepts.
Oyster and coral reef design and
engineer (geotherapy and energy
concepts)
Electronics engineer and
designer.
Specialties
Marine
Electronics and Alternative
Energy Design for the marine
environment. Processes of
geo-mimesis, and
reconstructive geotherapy.
Geotherapy engineer (clean
water and coral/oyster
reefs)
BioRock engineer and
installer.
Oyster Restoration, clean
water.
Rand Weeks's
Experience
Electrical
Engineer and
Designer
Restoration and
Conservation
Environmental
LLC
July 2009 –
Present
(2 years 7
months)
College Point,
Queens, NY
Responsible for
design and
connectivity in
marine conservation
program to restore
oysters and
saltmarsh areas in
New York City
boroughs. BioRock
and oyster reefs.
Electro-Mechanical
Design Engineer
BioRock
International
July 2009 –
Present
(2 years 7
months)
International
Designer and
Installer of AE
power and
connections for
BioRock reefs.
BioRock is a form of
GeoTherapy, and the
only method known
for restoring (regrowing)
the world's quickly
dying coral reefs.
Designer and
installer
New York Harbor
School (NY Urban
Assembly)
April 2009 –
Present
(2 years 10
months)
NY, NY
Designed and
installed solar
energy systems for
the Harbor School
(Urban Assembly)
FLUPSY dock, which
grows incubational
oysters.
Chief
Electromechanical
Design Engineer
and Installer
1kD
September 2005
–
Present
(6 years 5
months)
Designed and
installed
alternative energy
power collection and
electronic
(electrical) systems
for the longest
continuous
(contiguous) non
stop maritime
excursion in
recorded history.
(1152 days on the
sea, nonstop without
refuel, porting nor
resupply.)
Wired and supplied
electronics for the
voyage, and assisted
in systems and
materials design.
Individual programs can be
viewed each week dayHosthmH
(11:00
AM - NOON / (NYC Time)
Channel 34 of the Time/Warner, Channel
83 of the RCN, & Channel 33 of the VerizonFiOS
Cable Television Systems in Manhattan, New
York.
The Program can now also be viewed on the
internet at time of cable casting at:
WWW.MNN.ORGw.
NOTE: You must adjust viewing to reflect NYC time
& click on channel 34 at site
