Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
500 Main St. Room 76-661
Cambridge, MA
617-244-7995 (cell)
alamaro[at]mit.edu
Founder, More Aqua Inc. (click)
As a graduate student and later as a Research Scientist at the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Moshe Alamaro helped to design, build and manage the MIT Air-Sea Interaction Lab where he supervised six students. He specializes in fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, applied mechanics and mechanics of materials, hydrology, sea-air interaction, ice engineering, compressible flow, optimization and nonlinear programming, and cross-disciplinary research and engineering.
Mr. Alamaro, a US citizen, received the Mechanical Engineer's Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from MIT and B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Project Initiatives
Large-Scale Greenhouses Attached
to Power Plants for the Productive Use of Waste Heat and CO2
emissions. A proposal will be submitted to DOE and economic
development authorities in Maine, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and elsewhere.
See also "Power
Plant Takes on a New Meaning," Digital Version of Machine
Design, September 16, 2004, Page 100.
"Winter
Ice Manufacture," a concept designed to manufacture large
amounts of ice in the winter using a new snowmaking technology. Exploratory
grant proposal is being prepared for submission to government and economic
development agencies.
Recognitions and Awards
National Science Fellow, Korea Institute of Machinery and Metals, Summer 1996.Honorable Mention-Boston Edison Centennial Energy Invention Competition. One of six winners out of 260 proposals, for the concept of nitrogen fixation mobile electricity-intensive industrial plants.
MIT Inventor of the Week (December 1997) for developing
a concept for aerial reforestation that addresses climate change and the
emerging market for carbon sequestering credit.
Selected Publications
Alamaro, M., Emanuel, K., Langer, R., : "Surface Film Distribution System and Method Thereof", Patent Application US20120128422 and PCT/US2011/061851
Alamaro, M., Kaufman, A., Wang, J.; "System and Method for Endoscopic Size Measurement and Mapping of Internal Organs, Tumors and other Objects", US Patent Application, SN 60/733,572, October 26, 2006.
Alamaro, M., Michele, J., Pudov, V.: "A Preliminary Assessment of Inducing Anthropogenic Tropical Cyclones Using Compressible Free Jets and the Potential for Hurricane Mitigation," Journal of Weather Modification, Vol. 38, P. 82-96, 2006.
Alamaro, M., Emanuel, KA, McGillis, W.: "Experimental
Investigation of Air-Sea Transfers at High Wind Speed," forthcoming
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
With Emanuel, K.A.: "Sea-Air
Transfer in Tropical Cyclones", Proceedings of the International
Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Sapora, Japan, July 1, 2003.
Alamaro, M., Emanuel, KA, McGillis, W., Colton J.: "Experimental Investigation of Air-Sea Transfer of Momentum and Enthalpy at High Wind Speed" Presented at the Proceeding of the American Meteorology Society, May 2002.
Alamaro, M.; "Wind Wave Tank for the Investigation of Momentum and Enthalpy Transfer from the Ocean Surface at High Wind Speed," M.S. thesis at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May, 2001.
Armstrong, R., Glenn G.J., Alamaro, M. "Coordination,
research needed in weather science", Physics Today,
Vol 60, Page 10, June 2007.
Alamaro, M.; "On
the Feasibility of Generating and Storing Winter Ice to Meet Water Demands
in the Summer", Mechanical Engineer's Degree Thesis, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, May, 1999.
Alamaro, M.; "Moving to Where the Energy is," Chemtech (American Chemical Society) May, 1994, p. 49.
Alamaro, M.; "Plasma Method and Apparatus for the Production of Compounds from gas mixtures, particularly useful for the Production of Nitric Oxides from Atmospheric Air, " U.S. Patent 4,505,795.
Alamaro, M.; "Production of Nitric Oxides," U.S. Patent 4,287,040.
Alamaro, M.; "Plasma Method and Apparatus for the Production of Compounds from gas mixtures, particularly useful for the Production of Nitric Oxides from Atmospheric Air, " U.K. Patent 2 113 509.
Policy Publications
Alamaro, M.; "My Journey to Engineer the Weather," MIT Alumni News and Views, What Matters: June 2009.
Alamaro, M.; "The Economics of Peace," Harvard Business Review, Volume 80, Number 11, Page 26, November 2002.
Alamaro, M.; "Des usines-butineuses: qui se baladeront pour tirer profit du courant des centrales momentanément excédentaires," LeTemps Strategique, No. 87, p. 82, Mai/Juin, 1999.
Alamaro, M.; "Rethinking Technological Economy of Scale," IEEE Technology and Society, Winter, 1994,Vol. 13, p. 20.
Alamaro, M.; "Bigger is not always better," Chemtech (American Chemical Society) Sept. 1994, page 49.
Alamaro, M.; "Recovery and Reuse of Unused Prescription Drugs: Combining New Technologies, Social Policy, and Actual Implementation," MIT Alumni News and Views, What Matters: August 2005.
Alamaro, M.; “Voodoo Engineering”, Machine Design, JULY 8, 2004.
Popular Press
"Riders on The Storm", The Atlantic Monthly, October 2007.
"Scientists a step closer to steering hurricanes," The Sunday Telegraph, October 21, 2007.
"Rising Drug Costs Prompt New Uses for Old Pills," Nature Medicine, Nature Magazine, Volume 12 P. 1333, December 2006.
"Old Pills Finding New Medicine Cabinets," The New York Times, May 18, 2005.
"Gas-fired tomatoes," Power Magazine, March 15, 2005.
"Scientists: Killer Hurricanes May Someday Be Controlled With Soot," Fox News, October 31, 2007.
"Ultra-thin 'blankets' cut reservoir evaporation," New Scientist, November 2003.