Lockheed Martin Corporation

Kenneth Blanchette

Robert James Howard

John Walter Rapp

Matthew B Ascari

Matthew Herbek

Matthew Gries

Robert Dietzen

Braden Powell

Sean Day

A water navigable vessel or glider can transport cargo across oceans and other bodies of water without the use of fossil or nuclear fuels. The vessel includes a housing, a cargo or payload area within the housing, one or more control fins attached to the housing, a ballast within the housing, an expandable and contractible container configured to receive a clathrate and maintain a minimum amount of pressure on the clathrate within the housing in proximity to the ballast, and an intake valve coupled to the ballast. The clathrate changes state, thereby changing the buoyancy of the glider, and causing the glider to move through the body of water.

Ocean thermal buoyancy and propulsion system

Growing community of inventors

North Smithfield, RI, United States of America

Kenneth Blanchette