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Who thought up all this and who is he?
The idea for a civilization on the sea was one man’s lifetime dream of addressing the problems of energy shortage, overpopulation, over use of the world’s raw materials, and some of the political problems in the world. Leonard Wald read about these problems facing the 21st century world many years ago and over time, the germ of an idea formed as to how to address them. These ideas matured while he worked as an engineer in industry. His specialties were energy and sensors as related to satellites, ships and aircraft. These specialties gave him the exact background he needed to arrive at a possible solution to these problems. After retirement, he worked out the details of this solution.
Leonard Wald Biography
Leonard Wald has always been interested in experimental equipment. His father was the first man in the neighborhood to develop his own radio. Leonard himself was working on ship and aircraft models and energy generation before he got into the University of Utah. Then he began taking physics, and chemical engineering classes and his interests solidified. This interest led him to enter a nuclear engineering program at the University of Michigan, where he got his PhD in 1967.
Ever since then, he worked in the world of systems research where total systems are developed to address specific problems. This gave him the tools necessary to address the energy shortage, and overpopulation problems mentioned above. Later he began developing his ideas of life on the sea. His designs for the SEMAN, the amphibian airplane, and the land/sea runabout are all part of the plan. He wrote Aquater to explain his theories on how the life on sea would work, and how it could help the problems of the land-based world.
You can also see the inventor’s Resume (CV).
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