March 14, 2008
Contact & About
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Contact us. |
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E-mail GrdnAngelCars@aol.com Evana and Veronica, help write, edit, and post messages. One is an Interior Designer. The other is half done law school. Both look forward to safe, congestion-free, environment friendly driving in California.
Mark's wife, Stana, the stoker, is taking the picture of us along the Lewis & Clark Trail in Montana, July 2004. The bike is a Rans Screamer tandem recumbent bicycle laden with full camping gear. Mark's professional memberships include American Society of Civil Engineers and Water Enviornment Federation. |
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Climate Change Solution. |
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Mark has filed a patent application on using large anaerobic digesters as a climate change solution. While implementing a Transportation Challenge for Conversant Cars effort is as a prophet without profit, the concept at www.PODenergy.org may be commercially viable. Mark is presented a poster at the National Council for Science and the Environment's January 2008 conference; Climate Change: Science and Solutions. "Plankton Power is published in the March 2008 issue of Civil Engineeing, parge 52 http://civil-engineering.asce.org/link/ce/2008/mar/1. |
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Historic endeavors. |
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That's Mark Capron getting out of the 1976 Pressodyne which Alec Brooks and Mark built as Cal undergrads. Did you realize the 2004 human-powered speed record is over 80 mph? The bicycles take off from a standing start, use a mile or so to accelerate, and are timed over 200 meters. They are not drafting. The road is perfectly flat. For most of the 1970's the top speed record was below 55 mph. In July 2006 Fast Freddie bicycled 53.4 miles in an hour! |
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Who’s Mark & What’s
his agenda?
I built and raced two streamlined
bicycles for the Human Powered Speed Challenge with partner Alec Brooks while
on a NROTC Scholarship and obtaining a BS in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley
in ’76. Ergo my knowledge of challenge
motivational power. The Navy also paid
for my Ocean/Structural Engineering MS from
Did the typical Navy Civil
Engineer Corps jobs. Wound up as
Diving/Ocean Research Officer at Naval Civil Engineering Lab,
Starting in high school, I
have bicycle commuted about 100,000 miles (that doesn’t include recreation
rides). Some of that was a tandem with
trailer when daughters were in elementary school. Ergo, my interest in the bicycle safety
offered by the CHALLENGE.
I’ve been intensively
monitoring developments related to fuel efficiency and Guardian Angel Cars
since early 2004. I monitor developments
via the American Society of Civil Engineers, Engineering News Record
(construction industry), International Human Powered Vehicle Association, and
numerous other sources. I’ve been a
California Professional Engineer since 1981.
I have 6 patents. One (didn’t
keep up the payments) is for an
I am currently:
- Volunteering my time and money to promote the
CHALLENGE;
- Investing time and money in the Plankton Ocean Digester (POD), an outgrowth of volunteering my time to bring water and biofuel interests together because current ethanol and biodiesel concepts work
against water sustainability and algae farming appears to symbiotic for
water, environment, food, and energy sustainability;
- Innovating water, recycled water, wastewater, and
solid waste solutions for a public
agency to pay the bills;
- Infusing my Roman Catholic religious education
class with Social Justice understanding.
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