Moshe Alamaro

Harvard-MIT Division of Health
Sciences & Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room E25-342
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139


617-244-7995
617-258-5290
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As a graduate student and later as a Research Scientist at the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Moshe Alamaro helped to design, build and manage the MIT Air-Sea Interaction Lab where he supervised six students. He specializes in fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, applied mechanics and mechanics of materials, hydrology, sea-air interaction, ice engineering, compressible flow, medical stents and implants, optimization and nonlinear programming, project initiatives, cross-disciplinary research and engineering involving product and process development and inventing "on demand".

Mr. Alamaro, a US citizen, received the Mechanical Engineer's Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from MIT and B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Until recently he has been a visiting scientist at the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

Project Initiatives:


“Large-Scale Greenhouses Attached to Power Plants for the Productive Use of Waste Heat and CO2 emissions”. A proposal will be submitted to DOE and economic development authorities in Maine, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and elsewhere.
See also "Power Plant Takes on a New Meaning," Digital Version of Machine Design, September 16, 2004, Page 100.


Hurricane Modification.


“Winter Ice Manufacture”, a concept designed to manufacture large amounts of ice in the winter using a new snowmaking technology. Exploratory grant proposal is being prepared for submission to government and economic development agencies.

Recovery and Re-use of Unused Previously Dispensed Prescription Drugs


Recognitions and Awards

Honorable Mention-Boston Edison Centennial Energy Invention Competition. One of six winners out of 260 proposals, for the concept of nitrogen fixation mobile electricity-intensive industrial plants.

MIT Inventor of the Week (December 1997) for developing a concept for aerial reforestation that addresses climate change and the emerging market for carbon sequestering credit.


Selected Publications

Alamaro, M., Kaufman, A., Wang, J.; “System and Method for Endoscopic Size Measurement and Mapping of Internal Organs, Tumors and other Objects," US Patent Application, SN 60/733,572, October 26, 2006.

Alamaro, M., Michele, J., Pudov, V.: "A Preliminary Assessment of Inducing Anthropogenic Tropical Cyclones Using Compressible Free Jets and the Potential for Hurricane Mitigation," Journal of Weather Modification, Vol. 38, P. 82-96, 2006.

Alamaro, M., Emanuel, KA, McGillis, W.: “Experimental Investigation of Air-Sea Transfers at High Wind Speed,” forthcoming in Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

With Emanuel, K.A.: “Sea-Air Transfer in Tropical Cyclones,” Proceedings of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Sapora, Japan, July 1, 2003.

Alamaro, M., Emanuel, KA, McGillis, W., Colton J.: “Experimental Investigation of Air-Sea Transfer of Momentum and Enthalpy at High Wind Speed” Presented at the Proceeding of the American Meteorology Society, May 2002.

Alamaro, M.; “Wind Wave Tank for the Investigation of Momentum and Enthalpy Transfer from the Ocean Surface at High Wind Speed,” M.S. thesis at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May, 2001.

Armstrong, R., Glenn G.J., Alamaro, M. "Coordination, research needed in weather science", Physics Today, Vol 60, Page 10, June 2007.

Alamaro, M., Fishman, R., Hodges, M.: "Feasibility of Waste Heat Utilization from Power Plants for Greenhouse Heating," A report for Calpine Corporation, Sept. 15, 2003.

Alamaro, M.; “On the Feasibility of Generating and Storing Winter Ice to Meet Water Demands in the Summer,” Mechanical Engineer’s Degree Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May, 1999.

Alamaro, M.; “Moving to Where the Energy is,” Chemtech (American Chemical Society) May, 1994, p. 49.

Alamaro, M.; “Plasma Method and Apparatus for the Production of Compounds from gas mixtures, particularly useful for the Production of Nitric Oxides from Atmospheric Air, “ U.S. Patent 4,505,795.

Alamaro, M.; “Production of Nitric Oxides,” U.S. Patent 4,287,040.

Alamaro, M.; “Plasma Method and Apparatus for the Production of Compounds from gas mixtures, particularly useful for the Production of Nitric Oxides from Atmospheric Air, “ U.K. Patent 2 113 509.

Policy Publications

Alamaro, M.; “The Economics of Peace,” Harvard Business Review, Volume 80, Number 11, Page 26, November 2002.

Alamaro, M.; “Des usines-butineuses: qui se baladeront pour tirer profit du courant des centrales momentanément excédentaires, “ LeTemps Strategique, No. 87, p. 82, Mai/Juin, 1999.

Alamaro, M.; “Rethinking Technological Economy of Scale,” IEEE Technology and Society, Winter, 1994,Vol. 13, p. 20.

Alamaro, M.; “Bigger is not always better,” Chemtech (American Chemical Society) Sept. 1994, page 49.