ORRW Meeting - Thursday, August 1st at 6:30pm

When:  Thursday, August 1^st (Social begins at 6:30pm/Meeting begins 7pm.)

Where:  Summit Office Park, 3651 Mars Hill Road, Building 1400, Watkinsville, GA

Speaker:  Dr. James Rust

Topic:  “The Role of Man-made Carbon Dioxide on Climate.”

Heartland Biographies

James H. Rust

Policy Adviser

The Heartland Institute

James H. Rust, policy adviser for The Heartland Institute, is a retired Georgia Tech professor of nuclear engineering, and an outspoken critic of unnecessary alarmism over man-made global warming.  He has a B.Sc. Chemical Eng. Purdue U.; Masters Nuclear Eng. M.I.T.; Ph.D. Eng. Purdue U.  He is currently delivering talks titled  "The Role of Man-made Carbon Dioxide on Climate” or "America's Failed Energy Policies and The Reason Why". These talks deal with the science about the theory burning fossil fuels causes catastrophic global warming and the economics and practicality of replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources--wind, solar, electric cars, ethanol from corn, and other biofuels.

Rust was an assistant professor of engineering at The University of Virginia and associate professor and professor of nuclear engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He was owner of two Atlanta businesses--Energy Consulting Engineering and Haralson Publishing Company.  He was a Registered Professional Engineer in Georgia (GA8908).   He is listed in

Who's Who in Southeastern United States, American Men and Women of Science, Outstanding Atlantans (1979), and Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology (1983).

Rust is a former member of the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE) and former secretary, vice-president, and president of GSPE Atlanta Chapter (400 members).  He has received numerous awards, including 1977 Engineer of the Year in Education and 1982 Engineer of the Year from GSPE and The Engineers of Greater Atlanta.  He was nominated a 2006 Outstanding Chemical Engineer by the Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering.

He edited Nuclear Power Safety with Lynn Weaver (Pergamon Press, 1976), contributed to Elements of Nuclear Reactor Design (Elsevier Scientific Company, 1977), and authored Nuclear Power Plant Engineering (Haralson Publishing Company, 1979). The latter book was a best seller to U. S. nuclear engineering programs from 1979 until second printing ran out in 1988.  He also has written or co-authored more than 50 scientific reports and publications.  He has endowed scholarships of $6500, $6000, and $2500 for students studying engineering.

Please bring a friend and join us!

Cyndy Hartman