CHARLOTTE M THORNTON, M.A.
Charlotte M. Thornton is founder of the CHEBEL Companies, a vertically integrated next generation energy and infrastructure provider focused on 21st century refinery science. She is passionate about fielding the vanguard of Solar & Hydrogen technologies so as to effect the 3rd generation of the Energy Industry Exploration & Production paradigm currently practiced by the Oil & Gas Industry. The time is now that the Global Village must truly go Beyond Petroleum.
CHEBEL is currently focused on the launch of a Latin American subsidiary, Atacama Solar And Recoveries Company, S.A. Dedicated to applying large scale solar to copper mining and metals recovery at the point of raw extraction, ASARCO will effect every per capita user across the global supply chain, from individuals, companies, and industries to cities, and regions. CHEBEL was a governmental Start-Up Chile entrepreneurial grant recipient in 2011/12.
Ms. Thornton served as the Marketing Director & Research Assistant to the Chief Tunnel Engineer on contract to the U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency. In this capacity she helped conceive and organize unprecedented invited workshops held inside NORAD whereby NASA, U.S. Air Force, and cross-discipline industry representatives combined system requirements to work on a single maglev "MagLifter" launch for low cost freight to space. She later served as the Deputy Assistant to the Chairman & Founder of SVS R&D Systems (now Boeing SVS) as project manager of several innovative applications of magnetic levitation and propulsion. While at SVS, she was mentored by its founder -- the only American that was a primary member of Von Braun´s NASA Apollo team, and one of three Chief Engineers working under Kelly "Clarence" Johnson of Lockheed Skunkworks.
She has undertaken extensive engineering and management science study and research at The Colorado School of Mines and Stanford University. While at the later, and from the point of view of human interface/user experience design, she conceived and directed a high level simulation of her own advanced propulsion transport system dubbed 'LINC' for `Levitated Inter-National Causeway´. LINC was endorsed (36/2) as the preferred definition for hemispheric defense at The 2004 Bi-Annual Hemispheric Defense Summit Meeting-Quito. LINC still flies in the world´s largest dynamic flight simulator at NASA Ames Research Center which will play host to the engineering prototype now being blueprinted for spanning 17 hemispheric countries as "The Sustainable Highway of the Future", a name suggested by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. She has been a Visiting Scholar with Stanford's Civil & Environmental Engineering Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects (CRGP, now Center for Global Projects) (2010/11) and Stanford´s Ginzton Laboratory (2012-16) working to manufacture at nanoscale a micro-wind energy device for embedding into building curtain wall to enable skyscrapers to perform as large scale wind energy generators.
Ms. Thornton has been an Advisor to The Space Show, a non-profit radio talk show on the Space Industry. She has worked and volunteered for The Colorado Office of Space Advocacy (COSA), a gubernatorial office promoting the development of a commercial spaceport for the U.S. Southwest. She is steeped in the technologies and policies that make up 'Commercial Space´and ´Space Tourism´. She is a DJ and hosts her own weekly live broadcast "Clean Copper Radio" show on Stanford KZSU 90.1 FM where she volunteers and is its Production Manager.
Ms. Thornton was born in Calgary, Alberta, grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and tends to explore natural beauty wherever mountains can be found. She earned degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in Humanities (Chemistry) and Art History. In a previous career, she brokered and advised acquisitions of investment grade art between and for European legacy collectors / galleries and U.S. museums / provincial collectors. She was the vanguard of hosting exhibitions of high quality art for sale inside museums when the status quo thought this was not kosher. The result was highest quality art sold to donors of provincial U.S. museums so as to overcome deaquisitioning. She travels extensively; comparative analysis of public transport in large cities has been a lifetime hobby. Her focus has been on Latin American for many years while taking in tedious systems requirements for mega-scale infrastructure upgrade via LINC engineering design. LINC is slated to serve the hemisphere as a 21st century Pan American industrial freight transport and energy storage corridor. A childhood experience in Nigeria circa 1967, and a unique travel experience in China in 1977, drives her to devote all of her time to effect broad scale infrastructure upgrades across our Spaceship Earth that can resolve standard of living disparities that plague our Global Village. Life Without Oil™ via Clean Copper™ is her mantra; and Buckminster Fuller her ongoing mentor.√
CHEBEL is currently focused on the launch of a Latin American subsidiary, Atacama Solar And Recoveries Company, S.A. Dedicated to applying large scale solar to copper mining and metals recovery at the point of raw extraction, ASARCO will effect every per capita user across the global supply chain, from individuals, companies, and industries to cities, and regions. CHEBEL was a governmental Start-Up Chile entrepreneurial grant recipient in 2011/12.
Ms. Thornton served as the Marketing Director & Research Assistant to the Chief Tunnel Engineer on contract to the U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency. In this capacity she helped conceive and organize unprecedented invited workshops held inside NORAD whereby NASA, U.S. Air Force, and cross-discipline industry representatives combined system requirements to work on a single maglev "MagLifter" launch for low cost freight to space. She later served as the Deputy Assistant to the Chairman & Founder of SVS R&D Systems (now Boeing SVS) as project manager of several innovative applications of magnetic levitation and propulsion. While at SVS, she was mentored by its founder -- the only American that was a primary member of Von Braun´s NASA Apollo team, and one of three Chief Engineers working under Kelly "Clarence" Johnson of Lockheed Skunkworks.
She has undertaken extensive engineering and management science study and research at The Colorado School of Mines and Stanford University. While at the later, and from the point of view of human interface/user experience design, she conceived and directed a high level simulation of her own advanced propulsion transport system dubbed 'LINC' for `Levitated Inter-National Causeway´. LINC was endorsed (36/2) as the preferred definition for hemispheric defense at The 2004 Bi-Annual Hemispheric Defense Summit Meeting-Quito. LINC still flies in the world´s largest dynamic flight simulator at NASA Ames Research Center which will play host to the engineering prototype now being blueprinted for spanning 17 hemispheric countries as "The Sustainable Highway of the Future", a name suggested by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. She has been a Visiting Scholar with Stanford's Civil & Environmental Engineering Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects (CRGP, now Center for Global Projects) (2010/11) and Stanford´s Ginzton Laboratory (2012-16) working to manufacture at nanoscale a micro-wind energy device for embedding into building curtain wall to enable skyscrapers to perform as large scale wind energy generators.
Ms. Thornton has been an Advisor to The Space Show, a non-profit radio talk show on the Space Industry. She has worked and volunteered for The Colorado Office of Space Advocacy (COSA), a gubernatorial office promoting the development of a commercial spaceport for the U.S. Southwest. She is steeped in the technologies and policies that make up 'Commercial Space´and ´Space Tourism´. She is a DJ and hosts her own weekly live broadcast "Clean Copper Radio" show on Stanford KZSU 90.1 FM where she volunteers and is its Production Manager.
Ms. Thornton was born in Calgary, Alberta, grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and tends to explore natural beauty wherever mountains can be found. She earned degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in Humanities (Chemistry) and Art History. In a previous career, she brokered and advised acquisitions of investment grade art between and for European legacy collectors / galleries and U.S. museums / provincial collectors. She was the vanguard of hosting exhibitions of high quality art for sale inside museums when the status quo thought this was not kosher. The result was highest quality art sold to donors of provincial U.S. museums so as to overcome deaquisitioning. She travels extensively; comparative analysis of public transport in large cities has been a lifetime hobby. Her focus has been on Latin American for many years while taking in tedious systems requirements for mega-scale infrastructure upgrade via LINC engineering design. LINC is slated to serve the hemisphere as a 21st century Pan American industrial freight transport and energy storage corridor. A childhood experience in Nigeria circa 1967, and a unique travel experience in China in 1977, drives her to devote all of her time to effect broad scale infrastructure upgrades across our Spaceship Earth that can resolve standard of living disparities that plague our Global Village. Life Without Oil™ via Clean Copper™ is her mantra; and Buckminster Fuller her ongoing mentor.√
