LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER
About our Structure, Teaming Criteria, and Complex Systems Engineering Design Process
The key management, companies and consultants chosen for alignment as consortium partners have been/will be chosen for their (1) integrity, (2) flexible and fluid work culture, (3) experience, (4) complementary skill sets, as well as (4) redundancies. These criteria provide inherent internal cross-checks and second, even third sources of expertise for higher order, innovative problem solving. The projects to be solve by this team are as if a set of nested Russian dolls that make up a program, or family designed by nature to fit together. A single doll may be out standing in its field, the rest acting as hidden support. Our CHEBEL team, internal and external, will be able to agressively bid any given tender we find in line with our purpose to bid, but more importantly, the team will be able to turnkey, in a proprietary manner, CHEBEL´s prescribed eight Solar & Hydrogen refineries. The large companies´inertia lend stability, opportunity, and resources that consultancies feed on, and smaller contractors act like enzymes for keeping any bureaucratic inertia from bogging down any engineering effort. The VP of Reliance Industries of India recently made a talk to 200 Stanford Researchers that we must find a way to get energy technologies to market as quickly as IT technologies. There are proven cases of doing so, and teaming is at the heart of it, as is process.
CHEBEL Companies management process is synomous with its design process, and that is, one driven by a culture that prizes rapid iteration of any detail or macro level improvement to yesterday´s work. An ability to make changes in real time must be a daily end goal of the team. Most large scale engineering projects get side winded by bureaucratic procedure over tracking changes. There are proven methods to avoid such waste of time, resources, and innovation.
CHEBEL´s companies are formed and nested based upon the declared purpose´s Work Breakout Structure (WBS) for fielding eight solar & hydrogen refineries worldwide. Large, complex projects need not have bureaucracy if they are managed as if one is dressing the body with the precise suit for a precise mission. Each of CHEBEL´s companies thus have a very small oversight staff, with admin matters taken care of globally by the operational holding company, or 21st Century Design & Development. This company exists to hold the project´s blueprint as if it is an open book in the middle of the hangar for all to read and be guided.
While the outside world need not know the entirety of CHEBEL´s vision, mission and goals, a select few insiders will know its top down mission: to build eight world´s first and largest solar and hydrogen refineries in the eight top geographies worldwide connected by a constellation of eight satellites that serve as transport links of their combined energy outputs into twenty-four earthbased rectennae. While obtensively built for serving local and regional markets, they are speced to expand into market share of the global market for energy by virtue of this constellation of satellite uplinks that transport their energies via highly collimated microwave. This is off the shelf technology. This is CHEBEL´s answer to Valdez tankers. The devilish details are not at all in the engineering, but in one´s ability to persuade a certain group of countries to sign onto an international treaty to be called The Organization of States for Commercial Space (OSCS). The Fins are in, if Chileans will get on board, then the document can be set between the two countries, and the next generation Saudi energy reserve will have been born out of Chile´s Atacama.
Hold that to yourselves, knowing that to congeal our team around a ditty Inter American Development Bank (IDB) funded Chilean project for Tarapaca will prove the shot gun for getting all out of the gate running in step. In the end, one is not formed as a team to bid on government defined energy projects. Rather, one is being formed to construct the solution as we already see it and as driven by a well known global energy market that encompasses transport fuels, in addition to electricity and beyond, i.e. thermal heat and hydrogen fuel for industrial processes, e.g smelters.
Clarity of mission and purpose comes from communicating daily one´s intents and understanding. If there are times that it seems Charlotte is not focused -- and there will be -- rest assured that her algorithm for solving global energy supply is well defined, theoretically tested, and fundamentally set after hours of research among experts. Even though you can´t see it or understand it in the beginning, all efforts and sub-tasked work fits together like Russian dolls.
Sincerely,
Charlotte M Thornton
October 31, 2012
The key management, companies and consultants chosen for alignment as consortium partners have been/will be chosen for their (1) integrity, (2) flexible and fluid work culture, (3) experience, (4) complementary skill sets, as well as (4) redundancies. These criteria provide inherent internal cross-checks and second, even third sources of expertise for higher order, innovative problem solving. The projects to be solve by this team are as if a set of nested Russian dolls that make up a program, or family designed by nature to fit together. A single doll may be out standing in its field, the rest acting as hidden support. Our CHEBEL team, internal and external, will be able to agressively bid any given tender we find in line with our purpose to bid, but more importantly, the team will be able to turnkey, in a proprietary manner, CHEBEL´s prescribed eight Solar & Hydrogen refineries. The large companies´inertia lend stability, opportunity, and resources that consultancies feed on, and smaller contractors act like enzymes for keeping any bureaucratic inertia from bogging down any engineering effort. The VP of Reliance Industries of India recently made a talk to 200 Stanford Researchers that we must find a way to get energy technologies to market as quickly as IT technologies. There are proven cases of doing so, and teaming is at the heart of it, as is process.
CHEBEL Companies management process is synomous with its design process, and that is, one driven by a culture that prizes rapid iteration of any detail or macro level improvement to yesterday´s work. An ability to make changes in real time must be a daily end goal of the team. Most large scale engineering projects get side winded by bureaucratic procedure over tracking changes. There are proven methods to avoid such waste of time, resources, and innovation.
CHEBEL´s companies are formed and nested based upon the declared purpose´s Work Breakout Structure (WBS) for fielding eight solar & hydrogen refineries worldwide. Large, complex projects need not have bureaucracy if they are managed as if one is dressing the body with the precise suit for a precise mission. Each of CHEBEL´s companies thus have a very small oversight staff, with admin matters taken care of globally by the operational holding company, or 21st Century Design & Development. This company exists to hold the project´s blueprint as if it is an open book in the middle of the hangar for all to read and be guided.
While the outside world need not know the entirety of CHEBEL´s vision, mission and goals, a select few insiders will know its top down mission: to build eight world´s first and largest solar and hydrogen refineries in the eight top geographies worldwide connected by a constellation of eight satellites that serve as transport links of their combined energy outputs into twenty-four earthbased rectennae. While obtensively built for serving local and regional markets, they are speced to expand into market share of the global market for energy by virtue of this constellation of satellite uplinks that transport their energies via highly collimated microwave. This is off the shelf technology. This is CHEBEL´s answer to Valdez tankers. The devilish details are not at all in the engineering, but in one´s ability to persuade a certain group of countries to sign onto an international treaty to be called The Organization of States for Commercial Space (OSCS). The Fins are in, if Chileans will get on board, then the document can be set between the two countries, and the next generation Saudi energy reserve will have been born out of Chile´s Atacama.
Hold that to yourselves, knowing that to congeal our team around a ditty Inter American Development Bank (IDB) funded Chilean project for Tarapaca will prove the shot gun for getting all out of the gate running in step. In the end, one is not formed as a team to bid on government defined energy projects. Rather, one is being formed to construct the solution as we already see it and as driven by a well known global energy market that encompasses transport fuels, in addition to electricity and beyond, i.e. thermal heat and hydrogen fuel for industrial processes, e.g smelters.
Clarity of mission and purpose comes from communicating daily one´s intents and understanding. If there are times that it seems Charlotte is not focused -- and there will be -- rest assured that her algorithm for solving global energy supply is well defined, theoretically tested, and fundamentally set after hours of research among experts. Even though you can´t see it or understand it in the beginning, all efforts and sub-tasked work fits together like Russian dolls.
Sincerely,
Charlotte M Thornton
October 31, 2012
