Building a Sustainable, Knowledge

Based Economy for Alaska

*Led by Alaska’s First Peoples

By: David Michael Karabelnikoff

Alaska’s Most Under Appreciated

Resource ?

Indigenous Peoples of Alaska

We Are Smart , Efficient &

Sustainable

Divergent Convergent

State of the Arctic Technology

Traditional is Customized

Development of G-Code for mini qayaq prototyping

Alaska Natives into Science & Engineering ProgramANSEP Student Intern and Scholarship

Qayaq Co-Op: Proof of Concept

A limited series of 100 will generate $25,000 in revenues.

The first two have been presold for $250

Q a y a q C o - O p

S o c i a l E n t e r p r i s e

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S u p p o r t i v e H o u s i n g

Seoul (8h)

Bejing (8h)

Tokyo (7h)

Frankfort (9.5h)Oslo (8h)

Los Angeles (5h)

Seattle (3h)

Washington, DC (7h)

Anchorage

Resources

location

What does Alaska Have?

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Building Alaskan Innovation

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1000 Alaska Natives into PhD’s

500 STEMS fields

Bring Alaska Natives on par with developed world standards 1% of

population.

$500 Million Investment

Costs $150 Million

Learning curve for power generation technologies(IPTS Energy, Transport and Climate Change Group)

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Building Alaskan Innovation

• RES|The School for Renewable Energy Sciences: RES ReStarted in Alaska

• Intensive interdisciplinary PhD feeder program

• Alaska as a hub for international energy innovation

• When students return to Alaska are rewarded & honored for doing so.

SEMI Finalist @

Example

ESUSCON Microgrid - Chile

Village location

Huatacondo project

Results.

wind

inverter

Optimization results are obtained for a forecast horizon of 48 hours

considering a sampling time of15 minutes

Load and water consumptions are forecasted usinghistorical patterns of the location

Thanks !

&

Please Remember to INDIGENIZE-

IT!