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Brief Biographies

Gordon Rogers, Chief Executive Officer, has a bachelors degree in mathematics from UCBerkeley and certification in ISO 9001 auditing and line management from UC-Los Angeles. He is currently a quality engineer for a major aerospace contractor, assuring contract satisfaction for delivery of optical, mechanical, and electronic systems. He chairs the Environmentally Controlled Areas Team, a multidisciplinary group of material scientists and instrumentation, facilities, manufacturing, process-engineering, environmental health and safety, information systems, and audit-management personnel. Gordon has also served as site champion for design for manufacture using numerical methods. He currently creates compliance strategies for new product development and supports design, production engineering, and program management for numerous new products under large contracts. Gordons friendly, honest, and thorough style has gained him trust and support throughout the organization along with customer and supplier bases. Adam Jones, Chief Operating Officer, has served as associate director of licensing and business development and was a founding member of UC-Santa Barbaras Office of Technology Transfer, where he worked with entrepreneurs, companies, and researchers to help facilitate the commercialization of technology developed at the institution. Adam is responsible for evaluating the potential of early stage technologies, securing intellectual property, assessing new venture opportunities, identifying suitable business partners, and negotiating licensing transactions. He has experience working with entrepreneurs, investors, attorneys, and corporate executives to successfully bring new inventions from the lab to the marketplace.

Page 2 of 15 Adam has previously served as a corporate attorney specializing in counseling companies on matters relating to venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulations, intellectual property, and startup issues. Adam was also the co-founder and CEO of a successful startup company focused on developing and commercializing nanodiamond technology. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast. Adam earned his juris doctorate from Harvard Law School and his bachelors degree in biological sciences, high honors, from UC-Santa Barbara. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Licensing Executives Society, the Association of University Technology Managers, and the UC-Davis Entrepreneurs Academy. His expertise in managing a variety of technologies and business models to maximize startup potential, commercial viability, and patentability will serve him well in his work with WVW. Ian Meyer, Chief Financial Officer, completed his bachelors degree in international business at the University of San Francisco in 2004 and has studied at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain and The Kings School Canterbury in Canterbury, England. He currently serves as an investment analyst for Trustees Inc., a socially responsible investment firm, and director of the T&J Meyer Family Foundation, a London-based private family foundation that is dedicated to alleviating human suffering through effective and sustainable giving focused on health, education, and the environment, leveraging its assets to create scalable impact and sustainable solutions to global poverty. He has previously served as a consultant specialist for RCM Capital Management in San Francisco. Mark Miller, Technology Implementation Specialist, studied geology and computer science at San Jose State University and California State University at Northridge. Since 1978 he has led a long and varied technical career, developing a variety of skills, including project management, product design, quality assurance, and software development. He currently serves as technology transfer consultant for Centre daide technologique aux entreprises (CATE-CN) in Sept-Iles, Quebec. Previously, he has served as technical services manager for Blickman, Inc. in Lodi, New Jersey; principal consultant for Quality Management Guides in Santa Barbara, California; executive director for Alamo Learning Systems in San Ramon, California and Montreal, Quebec; senior engineer for Unisys Carpinteria (PulsePoint) in Carpinteria, California; regulatory affairs manager for Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. in Santa Barbara; quality assurance engineer specialist for Northrop Grumman, Air Combat Systems in Hawthorne, California; product assurance project engineer for L3 Communications, Ocean Systems in Sylmar, California; senior quality engineer for Allied Signal Aerospace in Sylmar; senior quality assurance analyst for Bendix Oceanics Division in Sylmar; and data analyst for Bendix Electrodynamics Division in Sylmar. Corey Rogers, Marketing Director, has served as assistant advertising manager for Morris Multimedia / Oakdale Leader for 15 years, supporting nearly 200 clients per month with about 450 advertisements serviced by a dozen advertising agencies. Her advertising products include high-gloss magazines, special events, daily and weekly newsprint, and attending websites. Her personal sales in 2011 approached $250,000. Marian Rogers, Payroll, Tax, and Benefits Coordinator, has many years of experience in accounting, personnel, health insurance administration, and payroll and tax preparation. Since

Page 3 of 15 1992, she has been an HR Block Group tax professional, conducting interviews and preparing taxes for up to 350 clients per year, including returns involving multiple rentals, sole proprietorships, bankruptcies, cancelation of debt, and sales of stock. Before that she worked as bookkeeper for the Escalon Unified School District, where she managed accounts payable, payroll for 300 employees, health insurance, contracts, and certification, as well as budget preparation for annual contract negotiations. Richard Bradford, Physicist and Numerical Analyst, completed his masters degree in physics at UC-Davis, after receiving a departmental citation there for his bachelors degree in physics, as well as the Saxon-Patten Award for Physics. He was class valedictorian at ITT. As an associate scientist at Polystor Companys Lithium Battery Research Department, he received two patents for pioneering battery separator polymer coating enhancements, and he reduced standard deviation of battery performance by designing and researching production methods. Hugo A. Loiciga, Hydrology Consultant, earned a doctorate and a masters degree in hydrology and water resources at the UC-Davis, and a bachelors degree in civil engineering from the University of Costa Rica. He is now professor of geography at UC-Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1988. Before that, he held positions at Wright State University and UC-Davis and has worked as a Supervising Hydrologist for Agronivelacion/Irrigation District of Moracia in Costa Rica. Throughout the last 25 years, Hugo has concentrated on making long-lasting contributions to the understanding of climate change/variability and land-use change and their linkages to watershed hydrologic processes, focused specifically on the response of regional aquifer systems and vulnerable flood plains, streams, and water quality. He has produced groundbreaking research in several areas: (i) understanding the linkage between climate change and variability and regional groundwater dynamics; (ii) changing streamflow characteristics (peak flows and runoff volume) in forest fire-impacted catchments; (iii) assessing climate variability and the recurrence of droughts in semiarid regions of the western U.S.; (iv) analyzing climatic uncertainty and human risk aversion and their impacts on complex waterresources systems; (v) determining the effect of floodplain development on flood hazards, which opened a novel area of hydrologic inquiry, forensic hydrology; and (vi) developing a mathematically based theory for sustainable water resources development. Hugos research has earned him various national awards and fellowships, and he has led dozens of national technical committees charged with developing state-of-the-art reports, technical reports, standards of practice in several fields of science and technology, and organizing conferences and technical sessions in venues worldwide. Hugo has been a leader in science education and technology transfer. Since 1989, he has chaired several national committees funded by the American Society of Civil Engineers, a 150,000-member professional society that includes a large water-and-environment section. He has served as scientific advisor to several community and state nonprofit organizations to help them advance causes as wide-ranging as enhancing scientific literacy among the public and promoting environmental justice. He has also served as U.S. representative to the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (appointed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences).

Page 4 of 15 John Clevenger, Documentarian, earned a doctorate in music theory at the University of Rochester and was a National Graduate Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences, winning two national awards for his research and writing while a doctoral student. Following a threeyear stint as a lecturer at UC-Santa Barbara, John worked as a Clinical Data Manager for a Santa Barbara medical device company. Trained in Lean Six Sigma, he now leads Genesis Quest, an international team of researchers investigating ancient enigmas. He is also establishing a writing career, with novels, films, and a TV docuseries in development. Topically, his first novel is entitled The Flood. Silas Dunlap, Builder, has been active as a licensed general contractor in the Santa Barbara area since 1989. With over 30 years of hands-on construction experience, he has executed a wide variety of residential and commercial remodeling projects, including nightclubs, restaurants, and multi-units. His current projects include complex, custom residential remodels as well as an ongoing 20-year history of successful competitive-bid projects for the local Hilton Corporation facility, Fess Parkers DoubleTree Resort. Mark Kram, Engineering Consultant, earned both his doctorate in environmental science and management and his bachelors degree in chemistry from UC-Santa Barbara. He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Groundswell Technologies and lectures at UC-Santa Barbara. For over twenty years, Mark served as a hydrogeologist and environmental geochemist for the U.S. government, specializing in environmental site characterization and remediation design. He participated in the development of the Navy Site Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System (SCAPS) program as a field project manager and as a project lead in the technology transfer of innovative sensors and site characterization approaches. Mark has also served as a technical lead for the National Environmental Technology Test Site in Port Hueneme, where he led MTBE plume delineation and monitoring field efforts and introduced, designed, and evaluated several innovative characterization and remediation approaches. Recently, Mark played key roles as a technical lead on the ESTCP LTM Well Comparison Project (ER-0011), PI for the Detailed Hydraulic Assessment Project (ER-0421), co-PI for the Combined Source-Area Remediation with MNA Project (ER-0436), developed national standards and guidance for ASTM and ITRC, and has taught graduate level university courses in Fate and Transport of Contaminants, Geographical Information Systems, and Field Environmental Applications. Mark currently oversees the technical development, marketing, and deployment of his patented automated sensor based contouring and modeling software platforms used for water resources management and restoration, and Homeland Security applications. Full resumes with timelines available on request.

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APPENDIX B. Detailed Product Description


PSolarCDA exploits temperature differences between incoming source water and the high temperatures achieved within the system to recapture energy through conventional countercurrent heat exchange in recycling the energy of condensation into the pretreatment of saline water. This brings about condensation through thermal isolation and exposure of source water to heat in a dynamic system during daylight hours (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Notional Representation of Heat Flow as Dictated by Temperature Differences PSolarCDA provides a scalable, recyclable means for purifying water using layers of plastic configured as cells. The system employs existing materials and production techniques, whether implemented as rigid arrays or flexible bubble wrap arrays. Most materials can be derived from recycled plastic, and the cells are themselves recyclable. Mathematical modeling demonstrates that the system can be scaled for multiple uses, from private residential applications to large-scale municipal water supply. The system is built around a cell or bubble with saltwater input and freshwater output (Figure 2). As the sun warms a heating chamber within the cell, the saltwater evaporates, leaving the salt and other impurities in solution, and the water vapor condenses on the cells chilling surface as desalinated water. This purified water then drains from the cell and is made available for drinking, cooking, cleaning, irrigation, and other uses. Slightly higher saline water is returned to the surrounding environment. Figure 2. Model Cell Within the cell, the top of the incoming water channel is the bottom of the condensation chamber, forming a thermal exchange boundary. By thermally interfacing the cold incoming

Page 6 of 15 water with the floor of the condensation chamber, the temperature of the input water is raised jointly by condensation on the interface and its exposure to post-process, heated effluent. The system employs a double-dome structure that precludes condensation energy losses by allowing preheating of the inner dome. This preclusion of convection cooling on the internal surface is a preferable trade-off against the alternative losses incurred by the heating of the interstitial space between the dome layers. By adjusting the flow rate as solar energy increases as the sun ascends to its zenith, energy is captured by new water entering the system, warming it as steam and outgoing water are cooled. We accomplish this heat exchange by mimicking the vascular systems of organisms (Figure 3), a novel approach that may prove extensible to other industrial applications. Thermal isolation of the vascular heatexchange structure from the surrounding water allows for thermal countercurrent gradient flow of water coming into and going out of the processing cell and the recapture of the heat of vaporization energy expended in the initial evaporation and associated distillation. Recapturing the energy of vaporization is the holy grail of applied thermodynamics in water treatment. For water, the heat of vaporizationthe amount of heat needed to change liquid water at 100 C to steam at 100 Crequires more than five times the energy than the energy needed to heat the same quantity of water from 0 C to 100 C. Our system recaptures this energy and uses it passively to raise the temperature of the incoming water. Figure 3. Heat Exchanger Our recent experiments on solar intensity indicate that the amount of solar energy available is sufficient to vaporize large amounts of water if suitably captured. Based on these observations, we anticipate achieving a production capacity of about a gram of water per square meter every five seconds, or about a kilogram (one liter) of water per square meter every 83 minutes. We are studying possible configurations of our cell and panel arrays for optimal manufacture and deployment (Figure 4). Hexagonally packed geometry allows for gravity drainage from the array along 120 axes that remain at a compound, downhill pitch. Our use of a Fresnel Dome (Figure 5) with line-spacing principally effective on infrared wavelengths can be used to focus more of the incoming solar radiation on the evaporative cup, accommodating a higher acceptance angle that allows for more efficient energy capture throughout the day.
Dome Fresnel Ray Tracing

Standard Planar Fresnel lens

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APPENDIX C. Market Sectors


Municipalities: Large-scale municipal PSolarCDAs, entailing contracts with water districts. Such applications would involve very large linked-PSolarCDAs integrated with existing supply and control infrastructures. Industrial Segment 1: PSolarCDAs for commercial properties, public buildings, government buildings, and commercial residential properties, integrated into a buildings primary water supply for initial treatment from marine or tainted ground sources. Industrial Segment 2: PSolarCDAs for industrial customers who require fresh water for processing operations. Industrial Segment 3: PSolarCDAs for industrial customers who produce water-based products (not including agricultural markets). Portable Segment 1: Shipboard PSolarCDAs for fresh water harvesting. Portable Segment 2: See Emergency Provisional below. Portable Segment 3: See Impoverished Families and Villages below. Portable Segment 4: Small, hand-carried PSolarCDA configurations suitable for temporary or permanent installations in remote locations. Portable Segment 5: PSolarCDAs for pleasure marine use, to supplement existing first aid or survival kits carried onboard private boats. Emergency Provisional: Medium-scale portable PSolarCDAs suitable for airlift, container ship, or truck delivery to governments and humanitarian or emergency disaster relief organizations. Residential Segment 1: PSolarCDAs for commercial properties, public buildings, government buildings, and commercial residential properties, integrated into a buildings primary water supply for initial treatment from marine or tainted ground sources. Residential Segment 2: PSolarCDA panels for the home-improvement green movement market. Agricultural Segment 1: Large-scale PSolarCDAs for close to medium proximity to saltwater, which supplies fresh water for open air agriculture and food production. Agricultural Segment 2: PSolarCDAs configured with greenhouses. Agricultural Segment 3: PSolarCDAs for runoff cleanup removal of salt buildup. Atmospheric CO2 Scrubbing: PSolarCDA-supplied agriculture in greenhouse or open-air applications primarily intended to increase green area CO2 removal from the atmosphere. Impoverished Families and Villages: Personal or small-village adaptation of the PSolarCDA for impoverished people through existing humanitarian programs.

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APPENDIX D. Product Configurations


Municipal
Large-Scale Municipal - Developed Areas This opportunity focuses on large-scale municipal applications for the PSolarCDA. This includes contracts with water districts such as DWP of Los Angeles and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Water Project of Northern California. Such applications would involve very large linkedPSolarCDAs integrated with existing supply and control infrastructures. Very large systems would be implemented to provide sustainable potable water supplies and replenish depleted aquifers for public consumption.

Large-Scale Municipal - Undeveloped or Developing Areas This opportunity focuses on large-scale municipal applications for the PSolarCDA. This segment is identified as unique to undeveloped and developing areas.

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Southern California Water Area and San Joaquin Delta Project These opportunities focus on integration of PSolarCDA with existing and planned public infrastructure. Implemented through local water authorities, they will add to freshwater capacity as well as public consumption. These applications will contribute to agricultural water conservation, urban water conservation, replenishing depleted aquifers, and water recycling programs funded under state grants.

Santa Barbara City Project This opportunity focuses on coupling PSolarCDA with existing source and supply pipelines. Facilities previously dedicated for a defunct reverse osmosis system would be utilized.

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Brackish Aquifer Desalination The approach lends itself to land locked water provision from underground water sources with high mineral content. Pumping and local logistics are comparable to alternative methods.

Industrial
Industrial Waste Stream Scrubber This opportunity focuses on industrial customers who need to recycle process waters and to separate hazardous impurities from effluent. The PSolarCDA would be integrated with waste stream separation processes and replace less efficient and more costly components of these processes. Industrial Water Pre-Treatment This opportunity focuses on industrial customers who require fresh water for processing operations. Bottled/Packaged Water Producers This opportunity focuses on industrial customers who produce waterbased products, not including agricultural markets. WVW will establish its own presence in this large and growing market space with Bottled World View Water.

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Sea Deployment
Large Scale Platform, Shipboard This opportunity focuses on shipboard applications for freshwater harvesting and for stationary platform freshwater sources.

Portable/Specialty
Wilderness Sports Unit This opportunity focuses on a small (hand-carried) configuration of the PSolarCDA suitable for temporary or permanent installations in remote locations. Marine Pleasure Craft Unit This opportunity focuses on the pleasure marine accessories market. The PSolarCDA would supplement or be included in existing first aid or survival kits carried onboard private pleasure craft. Garden Greenhouse Kit This opportunity focuses on a garden kit distributed by major retailers that also provides greenhouse and shade space.

Emergency Provisional
Home Safety Kit This opportunity focuses on a home safety kit distributed by leading retailers providing filtering of water and purification during water-supply disruptions, such as following major storms.

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Disaster Area Response This opportunity focuses on medium-scale portable systems suitable for airlift delivery, container ship, and/or delivered by truck. Customers include government and charitable, humanitarian, or emergency disaster-relief organizations.

Residential
Commercial Residential and Developers This opportunity focuses on commercial properties, public buildings, government buildings, and commercial residential properties. The PSolarCDA would be integrated into the buildings primary water supply for initial treatment from marine or tainted ground sources, as well as gray water waste stream, to remove impurities for recycling to fresh water. Array panels may be added to exterior walls of existing buildings as decorative panels, awnings, roofs, or fascia, or they may be integrated into the structure of new buildings.

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Private Residential and Homeowners This opportunity focuses on the green movement home-improvement market for private homeowners. Whether installed by a contractor or as a do-it-yourself project, these implementations would integrate PSolarCDA panels into the buildings gray water waste stream to remove impurities for recycling to fresh water. Array panels may be added to exterior walls of existing buildings as decorative panels, awnings, roofs, or fascia, or they may be integrated into the structure of new buildings. Units may be distributed through leading building and lumber stores.

Agricultural
Large Agricultural Producers This opportunity focuses on large-scale PSolarCDA systems in close to medium proximity to saltwater sources to supply fresh water for open-air agriculture and food production.

Commercial Greenhouses This opportunity focuses on PSolarCDA systems configured with greenhouses. As a partial fillfactor, the PSolarCDA provides insulation, shade, and fresh water. Run-Off Scrubber This opportunity focuses on runoff cleanup and removal of salt buildup. Large Scale Wetlands Restoration Restoration of wetland ecosystems has been indicated as a primary means of stabilizing desertification in areas with historically high rainfall.

Atmospheric CO2 Scrubbing


Integrated Scrubber Systems

Page 15 of 15 This opportunity focuses on integration of PSolarCDA-supplied agriculture in greenhouse or open-air applications primarily intended to increase green area CO2 removal from the atmosphere. When coupled to the gas production waste stream, integrated systems operating as greenhouses would also be capable of scrubbing CO2 from urban air streams or industrial exhaust. Both approaches allow for excess water production for human or livestock consumption. Collocated with Open-Ocean Fish and Shellfish Farming This approach allows for synergy between exhausted water-production systems and food production similar to marine greenhouses. The method will serve as a refuge for cultivated species, protecting them from predators and non-cultivated species. Large-Scale Scrubber Large-scale weather impacts of ocean surface installations are anticipated to play an increasing role in system deployment planning.

Fresh Water Recovery for Impoverished Families and Villages


Poverty and Disease Relief Kit This opportunity focuses on development of personal or small-village adaptation of the PSolarCDA for impoverished people in relief-packaged bundles as part of humanitarian efforts. The adapted version of the PSolarCDA would be portable by small truck (and potentially could include a smaller backpack-portable personal configuration), allowing its use in remote areas. Since the PSolarCDA has no moving parts and requires no other energy aside from sunlight, it may be used by people without special technical training. The PSolarCDA may be readily integrated as a component of relief packages currently in humanitarian distribution.

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