Summit Speakers

The Attendees of Space Energy Delegate to China  for the International Clean Energy Summit

April 12^th – 14^th,  Chengdu, PR CHINA

 

Dr. Gustav R. Grob

President, International Renewable Energy Consortium
Member, Space Energy Advisory Board

 Graduate Electromechanical and Industrial Engineer ETH-BWI; BROWN BOVERI (now ABB); GEBAUER (formerly OTIS, now SCHINDLER); DU PONT International; APPLIED POWER-ENERPAC; JET AGE SYSTEMS; SGS-REDWOOD; International Clean Energy Consortium ICEC (co-founder); Dean em. SGS-REDWOOD International Petroleum Training School; Chief editor of Blueprint for the Clean, Sustainable Energy Age, The CODE and ISEO News. Fellow, Institute of Petroleum (now Energy Institute F.EI); Swiss Institute of Automation & Control SGA; Swiss Electrical Association SEV (hon. free member); Instrument Society of America ISA; International Association for Hydrogen Energy IAHE; Former Chairman ISO TC30/SC1 (Dynamic Mass Flow Measurement); ISO/TC28/SC3/WG1 (Tank Calibration); 

ISO/TC28/SC3/WG4 (Static Liquid Mass Measurement); Co-founder & Chairman of ISO/TC 197 Hydrogen Energy and ISO/TC203 (Technical Energy Systems); Chairman TC 203/WG3 Energy Systems Analyses; Founder VP of CMDC-SPOC / former President of the World Sustainable Energy Coalition WSEC; Executive Secretary, ISEO International Sustainable Energy Organization, Geneva; Board Member of the International Energy Foundation IEF; former Board Member of World Renewable Energy Network WREN.

Speaker at International Energy Economics Conference, New Delhi; Energy Research Conference, Florence; CMDC-WSEC/UNDP Conference on Renewable Energy, Beijing; World Hydrogen Energy Conferences, Moscow, Hawaii, Miami, Zurich, Paris, Stuttgart; Renewable Energy Congress, Reading; UN Minister-Level Conference on Energy & Environment, Bangkok; 2nd World Climate Conference, Geneva; World Clean Energy Congress, Zurich; Asian-Pacific Clean Energy Development Plan, Energy Planning Conference, Kuala Lumpur; Global Energy Efficiency Mechanism, Geneva; Electricity & Environment Conference, Helsinki; UNCED PrepComs for Rio Summit; World Sustainable Energy Coalition WSEC / World Clean Energy Conferences in Geneva; United Nations Conference on Environment & Development UNCED, Rio proclaiming the Global Energy Charter, WREN Renewable Energy Congresses; ENERGEX conferences, Seoul, Bahrain, Stavanger, Beijing, Krakow; New Energy Conference, Yokahama; AIT Energy & Climate Symposium, Bangkok; UN Commission on Sustainable Development sessions CSD in New York; UN Climate Conferences; IEA-IIASA Energy Modelling, Paris and Stanford; United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development WSSD, Johannesburg 2002; Energy & Environment Conference, Changsa, China, UN-ECE Energy Conference; World Geothermal Conferences; REAsia Beijing, World Biomass Energy Conference, Rome; RENEWABLES Summit at Bonn, ENVIRONMENT 2005 and FUTURE ENERGY 2008 at Abu Dhabi; Asian Pacific Sustainable Transport Conference, Xi'an; SLOBIOM Renewable Energy Conferences for South East Europe; ENER Conferences, Monaco, Energy Technology Transfer conference, Muscat, HOPE, Mumbai, World Students Energy Forum, Calgary, ICLEI Summit in Edmonton, Smart Grid conferences in Sydney, Taipei, Djerba etc.

 

Dr. Feng Hsu

Sr. Vice President, Systems Engineering & Risk Management
The Space Energy Group

Dr. Feng Hsu is a well respected world expert; former research fellow of Brookhaven National Laboratory in the fields of risk assessment, risk-based decision making, safety & reliability and mission assurances for nuclear power, space launch, energy infrastructure and other high integrity social and engineering systems. He has most recently left NASA and is taking on greater challenges as Sr. VP of the Space Energy Group.

 Dr. Hsu was until recently head of the NASA GSFC risk management function, and was the GSFC lead on the NASA-MIT joint project for risk-informed decision-making support on key NASA programs, as GPM, LSS and the CxP etc. He was also a leading engineer/scientist in the Shuttle and Exploration Analysis Department at JSC in Houston, and led key projects such as the Shuttle PRA modeling & integration, SLEP and Shuttle upgrade trade studies. Dr. Hsu served on many agency and center expert panels supporting challenging SMA issues, including his key roles in the STS-107 (Space Shuttle Columbia) investigation team, the Return to Flight team, and ECO expert team for the Discovery mission.

Dr. Hsu has over 90 publications and is coauthor of three books and co-chair of several international technical committees. Beside being a visiting professor and Ph.D. student advisor at UEL London, he is frequently invited as a keynote speaker on many international forums, and is increasingly dedicated to frontier research ranging from human space exploration; solar energy to global collective intelligence and risk based policy-making on emerging environmental and energy security issues. Hsu holds a bachelors degree in Applied Math, masters degree in Operations Research and Statistics and a doctoral degree in Engineering Science.

As senior advisory of Aerospace Technology Working Group (ATWG) and a co-founder of Space Development Steering Committee, Dr. Hsu has been a strong advocate for SBSP for years and was instrumental in instigating the 2007 NSSO study on space solar energy and has contributed whole-heartedly to the great human endeavor of harnessing solar energy for sustainable human development.

 

Ralph Nansen

 Member, Space Energy Advisory Board
President, Solar Space Industries

 Ralph Nansen is the founder and president of Solar Space Industries and the former head of the Solar Satellite Division for Boeing. He has been recognized as one of the key leaders in the world to develop, promote, and manage the Solar Power Satellite program since 1973. He is the author of an advocacy book for the public entitled, "SUN POWER: The Global Solution for the Coming Energy Crisis", published by Ocean Press.

Mr. Nansen has been involved in space engineering for over 40 years, primarily with The Boeing Company. He started as a designer on the Bomarc rocket-powered missile, and in 1961 was selected to develop the initial configuration used by Boeing in their successful bid to design and build the giant first stage of the Saturn V moon rocket. In 1962, he became design manager of the Saturn S-1C fuel tanks, the first stage of the rocket that sent the Apollo astronauts to the moon.

Mr. Nansen's final assignment on the Saturn program was as Saturn V Cost- Effectiveness Manager. After the moon landing he moved into the position of Design Manager for the Boeing Space Shuttle definition studies.

  

Dr. Richard Dickinson

Member, Space Energy Advisory Board

Mr. Dickinson is one of the world’s foremost experts on Wireless Power Transmission (WPT). President of OFF EARTH-WPT, a Wireless Power Transmission business, he brings 35 years of experience in WPT, spacecraft , ground antennas & transmitters; having worked for CalTech at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), under NASA contract for 39 years.  

Mr. Dickinson was Group Supervisor of the High-Power Transmitter Group at Goldstone and was NASA's microwave power transmission specialist on the Solar Power Satellite Reference System team. The first X-band transmitter on the Mariner-Venus 1973 spacecraft for use in S/X-Band dispersive charged particle experiments was developed in the Spacecraft Transmitter Development Group, which he supervised.  He investigated the technology for the microwave power transmission link of the NASA-DOE proposed Satellite Power System (SPS) as the wireless power transmission specialist on the NASA study team.

He spent 9 months at the Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences  in 1988 as a detailee from JPL providing liaison for the Voyager Neptune encounter. He also worked in the JPL International Affairs Office in the Far East Desk.

Mr. Dickenson is currently a Multidisciplinary Senior Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. As a Microwave Power Systems Engineer in the Communications Ground Systems Section of the Telecommunications Science and Engineering Division, he is currently involved in studying and designing the solar pumped laser-power beaming phased array for interstellar missions. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from Auburn University, Auburn, AL in 1958 and the M.S.E.E. degree from  the University of Texas-Austin in 1962                                  

Prof. Martin Hoffert

Physiscs Department, New York University

Marty Hoffert wrote the landmark 2002 article in the journal Science that concluded global warming was a clean energy problem, not a regulation problem. He is Professor Emeritus of Physics and former Chair of the Department of Applied Science at New York University. He holds a B.S. (1960) in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan; an M.S. (1964) and Ph.D. (1967) in astronautics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (1969) from the New School for Social Research where he did graduate work in sociology and economics. He has published broadly in fluid mechanics, plasma physics, oceanography, planetary atmospheres, climatic change, solar and wind energy and space solar power. His geophysical research includes the ocean/climate model first employed by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to assess global warming for different scenarios of fossil fuel use. His energy research includes laboratory and full-scale experiments on wind turbines, photovoltaic hydrogen production and wireless power transmission for solar power satellites. His present efforts focus on sustainable carbon-neutral technologies to power high-tech civilization consilient with a biodiverse planet. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Marty was recently featured on the New York Times Dot Earth blog, where he was also shown discussing the Department of Energy's new energy R&D agency, ARPA-E. You can also watch him speaking at Google.

  

Stephan Tennsel

Chairman & CEO, Space Energy AG

Mr. Stephan Tennsel is an entrepreneur who founded Space Energy with his business partner, Peter Sage  , in 2008. As Chief Executive Officer and Principal of the Company, Mr. Tennsel is responsible for the overall operations and business development activities of this rapidly evolving company. From investment opportunities through to operational plans, Mr. Tennsel is actively involved in every aspect of Space Energy as well as developing relationships with other space-based solar power companies throughout the industry.

Mr. Tennsel is fluent in 7 languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Danish, German, French and Spanish. His exceptional communication skills and in-depth understanding of varying business practices cross-culturally, makes him highly adept at developing strategic partnerships, both at an individual and corporate level.

Prior to launching a career in business, Mr. Tennsel served in the Swedish Military. Time spent in the Special Forces gave Stephan a foundation that has served him well ever since.

In 1981, Stephan started his first entrepreneurial venture in an import/export business. From there, he moved on to a position in a large property development company in Spain. Stephan quickly became CEO, and was responsible for all aspects of the business, including 1800 employees and creating an annual turnover that exceeded $200M per year. In 1993, Mr. Tennsel decided to branch back out into the world of entrepreneurship, developing a Real Estate Company with branches stretching from Auckland to Taipei.

In 2007, Mr. Tennsel recognized the need for green energy opportunities. This challenge was realized through the research he undertook to establish Space Energy.

Mr. Tennsel is a member of the Laguna National Golf and Country Club in Singapore as well as the Institute of Directors, Pall Mall, London and he currently travels the world as the CEO of Space Energy. 

Peter Sage    

Principal, Director of Global Marketing & Communications

Mr. Sage is best known for his entrepreneurial achievements. Among the many successful companies he has been responsible is the World Wide Health Corporation, an anti-aging company which he founded in 1998 and quickly took to USD $4M in revenue. In 2004, with a customer base of 30,000, he sold the company to the newly appointed CEO. In 2002, he also founded the Energie Fitness Group and sold out to his management team in 2004. At that time, the company had won numerous industry awards and become one of the fastest-growing chains of fitness centers in the UK. It is still growing today.

Mr. Sage is a long-standing active member of the Entrepreneurs Organization, having built six qualifying companies to date. He has also been featured in numerous entrepreneurial publications worldwide, and last year was nominated for the prestigious "Extraordinary Lives Award" by the globally recognized Social Entrepreneurs Organization, "XL,' of which he is a life member.

Mr. Sage has been responsible for much of the start-up funding of Space Energy to date. He will be focusing on marketing the project to investors, partners, governments, and the general public, as well as working closely with Mr. Tennsel to develop new business and revenue opportunities. 

Jerome C. Glenn

 Director of the Millennium Project, UN

Jerome C. Glenn is the co-founder (1996) and director of The Millennium Project (on global futures research) and co-author with Ted Gordon of its annual State of the Future for the past thirteen. He was the Washington, DC representative for the United Nations University as executive director of the American Council for the UNU 1988-2007. 

He has over 35 years of Futures Research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry with the Committee for the Future, Hudson Institute, Future Options Room, and the Millennium Project. He has addressed or keynoted conferences for over 300 government departments, universities, NGOs, UN organizations, and/or corporations around the world on a variety of future-oriented topics. 

Recent research includes: upgrading Futures Research Methodology Version 2.0 to 3.0, Global Energy Collective Intelligence, Elements of the Next Economy, National Future Strategy Units, Future Education and Learning Possibilities by 2030, Global Energy scenarios for 2020, 2025 Science and Technology Scenarios, Middle East Peace Scenarios. 

Glenn was the Deputy Director of Partnership for Productivity International involved in national strategic planning, institutional design, training, and evaluation in economic development and micro-finance in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America and created CARINET in 1983 as the leading computer network in the developing world subsequently bought by CGNet.  He has been an independent consultant for the World Bank, UNDP, UNU, UNESCO, FAO, UNEP, US/EPA, USAID, and several governments and corporations. 

He invented the "Futures Wheel" a futures assessment technique, Futuristic Curriculum Development, and concepts such as conscious-technology, transinstutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, definitions for environmental security, feminine brain drain, information warfare, feelysis, nodes as a management concept for interconnecting global and local views and actions, and coined the term “futuring” in 1973. Saturday Review named him among the most unusually gifted leaders of America for his pioneering work in Tropical Medicine (national Leprosy system while a Peace Corp Volunteer), Future-Oriented Education, and Participatory Decision Making Systems in 1974. He was instrumental in naming the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise and banning the first space weapon (FOBS) in SALT II. 

He has published over 100 future-oriented articles in such as the Nikkei, ADWEEK, International Tribune, LEADERS, New York Times, McGraw-Hill’s Contemporary Learning Series, Current, Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Journal, Foresight, Futures, Technological Forecasting, Futures Research Quarterly, and The Futurist. He is author of Future Mind: Merging the Mystical and the Technological in the 21st Century (1989 & 1994), Linking the Future: Findhorn, Auroville, Arcosanti (1979), and co-author of Space Trek: The Endless Migration (1978 & 1979). 

Glenn has a BA in philosophy from American University, an MA in Teaching Social Science - Futuristics from Antioch Graduate School of Education (now Antioch University New England), and was a doctoral candidate in general futures research at the University of Massachusetts.  He received the Donella Meadows Medal, Kondratieff Medal, Emerald Citation of Excellence, honorary professorship and doctor’s degrees from two universities in South America (Universidad Ricardo Palma and Universidad Franz Tamayo) and is a leading boomerang stunt man.  

Howard Bloom

  National Space Society Board of Governors

 Howard Bloom is a Visiting Scholar at New York University and the critically acclaimed author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History (1995) and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000). He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Academy of Political Science, and the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, as well as the founder of the International Paleopsychology Project. He has been written up in every edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering since the publication's inception. The British TV Channel 4 has called Bloom "the Einstein, Darwin, Newton, and Freud of the 21st Century."

A science prodigy, Bloom has always displayed a wide range of interests and accomplishments, including the arts and music. In 1968 he co-founded Cloud Studio, which became one of the leading avant-garde commercial art studios on the East Coast. In 1971 he became editor of the successful monthly magazine Circus, which was devoted to rock music. And in 1976 he founded the Howard Bloom Organization, Ltd., which became the largest public relations firm in the record industry, with clients including such luminaries as Prince, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, John Mellencamp, and many others at that same level of success.

In 2006 Bloom founded the Space Development Steering Committee, a coalition that brought together leaders of NSS, the Mars Society, and the Space Frontier Society, linking them with some former astronauts and a wide range of experts in the space field, and adding Bloom's public relations expertise to the pot in promoting the space dream.

For more information about Howard Bloom, see howardbloom.net.