Tony Benedetto Iacovelli

About Tony Benedetto Iacovelli

Tony Benedetto Iacovelli is Founder and Chief Technology Officer at NextPower360. Location: Leicester, North Carolina, United States.

My lifelong passion for renewable energy and electrical machines was thankfully fostered by my father who was both a high school science teacher and a hands-on repairman of motors and generators. With his encouragement, I was dissecting and rebuilding generators as soon as I could hold the tools. As a teenager, my high school made an individualized advanced physics course for me, and I chose to use it for the independent study and building of novel generators and motors. As an adult, twice, I converted gas-powered vehicles to hand-built electric vehicles of my own design that I used as my primary cars for many years. In college, even though I was again invited into, and enjoyed a private off-books advanced physics program, my love of biology led me to ultimately become a medical doctor. Even today, I still work in the ER about 1 day per week. Hand in hand with my medical career, I have always been an inventor. I patented a medical device that helps make surgery faster and safer. I developed a device used for the emergency treatment of children and designed a means to make intubation and tube placement checks faster and safer. In the early 2000s, I turned my attention to inventing clean energy technology, including an internationally patented, novel family of fuel cells that have 14 times the power density of the industry standard at one tenth the cost and run on non-food competitive biofuels. I also invented a hybrid PV/thermal solar panel. About 10 years ago, I considered installing wind turbines on my solar powered, organic berry farm. I found the considerable inefficiencies of the incumbent wind generators to be distressingly wasteful of the available energy in wind. It seems that because humanity had adapted a pre-existing steam-powered generator to work in the wind, we had missed important concepts we would have grasped if we had started by trying to build a wind generator from the ground up. My wind generator is based loosely around a much-improved derivative of the Faraday Drum. Combining a series of re-arrangements of already proven generator technologies with novel innovations, I was able to come up with a generator design that is simpler, lighter, more reliable and able to harvest energy from a wider range of wind speeds. The NextPower360 team has proven the concept underlying the technology, and now our R&D is focused on optimizing the design.

Skills

• Startups
• CEOs

Additional experience

• ER Physicion

  Grace Hospital

  Started July 2016

Education

• Medical Doctor, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences