Harry Valentine
Author and Researcher
Mr. Valentine has a degree in mechanical engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada specializing in thermodynamics (energy conversion) and transportation technology. He has worked as a technical journalist for the past 10-years and has more than 2 decades of research in the transportation industry.
Could Mega-Scale Pumping Solve Canal Transit Problems?
Reduced water depths occur along navigable inland waterways, disrupting the economics of waterway transportation. While...
Op-Ed: As Tariffs Rise, Canadian Cruisers Can Skip the U.S. Market
The Canadian public has responded to the American tariff on trade. Airline bookings from Canada to American destinations...
A "Floating Truck Stop" Could Alleviate Ontario's Highway Congestion
The increasing volume of east – west road traffic through North America’s busiest corridor at Toronto, Canad...
The Art of the Transit Deal: Canada Holds Trump Card on Great Lakes Trade
US President Donald Trump has imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian Goods entering the USA. Canada holds a trump card in that...
Sulfur Energy Storage Could Provide Low-Cost Green Propulsion
Advances in the chemistry of thermal reactions involving sulphur, oxygen and hydrogen can generate temperatures of 900 t...
Future Development of Flettner Rotor Propulsion
Wind energy historically provided the basis for vessel propulsion, using sails and sometimes kites. During the 1920s, en...
Kite Stacks for Vessel Propulsion
Kite builders have for decades installed multiple kites on a single control line, forming an airborne train of kites tha...
A Convergence of Technologies Under the Hulls of Boats
In his classic treatise entitled "Competing for the Future," University of Michigan professor of business...
Above-Water Applications of Voith-Schneider Propulsion
The Voith Schneider propulsion system rotates on a vertical-axis and is well-proven in tug boat and ferry boat propulsion. A n...