Served in U.S. Navy 2-64 to 11-67 as a 2nd class petty officer in charge of complete Boiler room and auxiliaries and 10-12 personnel. Served on a Repair and an Ammunition Ship in the Vietnam War arena. 1-23-68 Hired on at Detroit Edison Company (DECO.) . Attended a 3-month operators training school at Delray Power Plant, in Delray, Mi. 5-68 to 8-71 Pennsalt Power Plant: 250 MW coal fired plant, Position - Industrial Operator 2. Qualified: water treatment operator on lime-soda, ferric acid, alumina and water polishing equipment; Boiler and turbine auxiliary equipment operator. Monroe Power Plant 8-71 Pos - Assistant Power Plant Operator Located in Monroe, MI: 8-72 Pos - Power Plant Operator (Four 800 MW Super- Certified cation and anion demineralizer operator Critical Boiler/Turbine Qualified wastewater treatment operator. Units operating at 3600 3-74 Pos - Supervising Control Room Operator PSI. Coal Fired) Fermi 2 Nuclear Power 9-81 to 9-83 Pos - NSO- Certified Nuclear Senior Reactor Plant. (1100 MW GE Operator. Boiling Water Reactor) Worked as Nuclear Supervising operator. Monroe Power Plant: 9-83 to 7-13-02 - Supervising Control Room Operator. (SO) The SO position is responsible for: (click here) I Retired from Detroit Edison on 7-13-02. I Formed my own company, Zerwell Energy, Corp. a Michigan Corporation. As President, I do energy consulting work. The company identifies, develops and markets alternative sources of clean, renewable, electrical energy. Before retiring I had the following qualifications/work experience: (Click here) Membership in the following organizations: (PM=Past member)
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Main Job interest: Designing and building a Thorium power supply for small business facilities More recent job experience: Summer of 2009: Graduated from Nelson and Pade Inc's professional Aquaponics and Greenhouse management program Fall of 2009: Consulted at the 2200 MW Jim Bridger Fossil fueled power plant, in Wyoming, with DCS "Ovation" control system, through the Per Se' group. April, 2010: Completed "Perch School" at Ohio State University. June 13-19, 2010 Attended The University of the Virgin Islands "International Aquaponics and Tilapia Aquaculture course" on US St. Croix island. Completed Cornell University's Aquaculture Course July 12-16, 2010 in Ithaca, New York. Attended the Bi-annual Recirculating Aquaculture conference in Roan Oak VA. Aug 18-22, 2010. Early December 2010 to end of January 2011 worked for Bechtel Corp as a shift startup engineer at the Prairie State Energy Campus in Marissa, IL. Including lock-out tag-out and plant operations, through IMC jobs. Spring of 2011: Graduated from Nelson and Pade Inc's professional Aquaponics and Greenhouse management program a second time, to refine my aquaponics expertise May, 2011 Began a research and development program on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) technology. My goal is to develop a low cost Nickel-Hydrogen (Ni-H) fueled energy source, for commercial and domestic applications. Fall of 2012 consulted on plant operations at Lansing Power Plant, Lansing Iowa. for the Per Se' group. Summer, fall, 2014, undertook extensive training in Solar Photo-voltaics. Started a business manufacturing Solar panel racking and trackers. Installed 12kw of solar panels, which supplies enough power, coupled with my closed-loop geo-thermal heat pump system, to reduce my all electric home's annual electric bill to zero. See: Starlight Power.net Spring of 2015 Undertook research on Electromagnetic Induction heating to make steam for a 3 HP steam engine. In progress. Spring of 2018 started research on Microwave cavity magnetron's for production of steam. In progress Spring 2019: Bottom line of all the years of research is to develop a room Heater capable of furnishing large amounts of BTUs for home and Greenhouse heating. Fall 2020: Settled on Modifying a Freon Heat pump to increase efficiency. Here More Information furnished on request. Charles D. Bagwell Erie, MI 48133-9797 mrcdb@charter.net www.zerwellenergy.com |