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THIS WEBSITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Click here for my Oath of Truth to law enforcement and prosecuting attorneys
that every word on this website is true

ABOUT MY FAMILY’S FEDERAL SERVICE FOR OUR COUNTRY

This website is about my family’s work for social justice and civil rights

on the House Judiciary Committee and throughout the world,

and about my work for thirty-two years as a federal research engineer

with the United States Department of Energy

and as a civil rights activist in Pittsburgh.

THE SHAFFER FAMILY

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Dr. Douglas Shaffer, MD; Jennie M. Shaffer, Vice President of the WV Education Association; Reverand. Dr. Dallas B.  Shaffer, PhD; Vera Lynne Shaffer PharmD; and Franklin D.

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Vera Lynne,

Douglas Neale

and Franklin D.

“AND LET US ALWAYS BE MINDFUL OF THE POOR”

Every prayer I heard my father say in my life ended with this

“and let us always be mindful of the poor”

During the Great Depression his family in WV often went without food.

My parents raised me and my little brother to get as much education in the sciences as we could, then to serve our country as federal employees.

ABOUT MY LITTLE BROTHER’S FEDERAL SERVICE

For his education in the sciences, Doug earned a Pharmacy Degree from WVU, a Medical Degree from WVU, then a Master of Hospital Administration Degree from Duke University. 

He entered federal service with the National Institutes of Health, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, then joined the Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. 

In 2003, Doug helped Dr. Anthony Fauci start President George W. Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Program. PEPFAR is the largest funding commitment ($110 billion) by any nation in the world to address a single disease.

To implement the PEPFAR Program, Doug lived in Kenya and Rwanda for 20 years with some of the poorest people in the world suffering from HIV/AIDS.

The PEPFAR program has now saved 25 million lives.

After 27 years of federal service, Doug retired in 2024 as the Associate Director of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Global Policy and Strategy.

 

The FDA is the largest and most powerful
regulatory agency in the world

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Dr. Douglas N. Shaffer, MD

Former FDA Associate Director for Global Policy and Strategy, now Deputy Director General of Global Affairs and Communications, International Vaccine Institute

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On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2024, Doug gave his file interviewed as

 Associate Director of the FDA Office of Global Policy and Strategy,

HIV/AIDS Research Pioneer Doug Shaffer Recounts Success stories from Africa.”

“I was in Africa at a time when HIV/AIDS was feared as a death sentence

and hospitals were overflowing with illness and sadness”

Click here or on the image below to the full interview

On August 7, 1998, Al Quida suicide bombers on orders from Osama bin Laden, simultaneously blew up two US Embassies, one in Dar as Salam Tanzania and one in Nairobi Kenya.  Over 200 were killed and 5000 wounded.

When the new US Embassy in Nairobi opened on March 3, 2003,

Doug was appointed as the US Embassy Health Attache.

During the COVID-19 epidemic, Doug served as the US Embassy COVID-19 Coordinator. The photo below shows Doug receiving the first shipment of 200,000 dose- of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Nairobi airport in the middle of the night.

Here’s Doug’s new job in the private sector:

The International Vaccine Institute appoints Dr. Douglas N. Shaffer

 as Deputy Director General of Global Affairs and Communications

“Doug Shaffer, a public health leader whose heart is as big as Africa itself. We at the FDA Office of Global Strategy & Policy are honored to have had the opportunity to know him as a colleague.”

July 24, 2024 – SEOUL, Republic of Korea – The International Vaccine Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Douglas Shaffer will join as IVI’s Deputy Director General of Global Affairs & Communications on August 26, 2024.

The International Vaccine Institute accelerates the development of vaccines for poverty-associated infectious diseases that sicken or kill millions of people every year, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. Though they have limited commercial potential, these vaccines are vital to global health. Through training and the transfer of knowledge, technology, and resources, we work with countries to achieve vaccine security and protect their people.

Doug also served as an Attending Physician treating

our military personnel at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

ABOUT MY FATHER’S FEDERAL SERVICE FOR OUR COUNTRY

Click here to see my father's publications about the Civil War in WV

Reverend

Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer

 Father

US Army Veteran

Professor of US History

 and Political Science,

Episcopal Priest

My father, Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer, was an honorable US Army Veteran who served on foreign soil (Guam and Korea), a Professor of US History and Political Science, Chair of the Social Sciences Department at Potomac State College, and an Episcopal Priest. 

For ten years he was the Campaign Manager and Senior Advisor for Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr. when he was a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee for Veterans Affairs.

 

Franklin D. Cleckley

US Navy JAG in Vietnam.

First African American WV Supreme Court Justice and Professor of Law at WVU

My father and his friend Franklin D. Cleckley were raised in McDowell County, WV, one of the poorest Counties in the United States.  In 1997, Potomac State College of WVU honored my father with a Lifetime Award for Social Justice.  Justice Cleckley presented the Award 

“In recognition of courage and dedication in promoting

the ideals of social justice in the community, region and state.”

 Attorney Congressman

 Harley O. “Buckey” Staggers Jr.

Click hereor on the photos to see my father’s journal publications on the Civil War in WV; An Essay on Ending Racism published by The Episcopal Church; his Political Science II reading assignment and exam (give it a try); and a letter he drafted for Attorney Congressman Staggers Jr to review then send to The Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Peter Rodino.  It’s about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Runyon v. McCrary that prohibits private schools from engaging in discrimination.  To the right is a photo of Peter Rodino standing beside Martin Luther King Jr as LBJ signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

ABOUT MY MOTHER’S SERVICE FOR WEST VIRGINIA AND OUR COUNTRY

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My mother, Jennie M. Shaffer, was a WV coal miner’s daughter. She was raised in Morgantown, WV.  After her father finished sixth grade, he worked full-time in the Humphrey coal mines near Morgantown, WV, for the rest of his life. 

Mom was a high school teacher, Vice President of the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA), and a civil rights activist.  In 1990, she and Kyetta Meadows, the President of the WVEA, ordered twenty thousand K-12 teachers to walk in solidarity out of their classrooms and into the streets to shut down the WV state school system with an “illegal” strike. 

WV teachers were the lowest paid in the United States.

After 11 days in the streets, WV teachers returned to their classrooms

with a 15% pay raise.

The photo above shows my mother on the steps of the West Virginia State Capitol during the WV Teachers Strike of 1990.  She is leading 5000 teachers in Pete Seeger’s song “This Land is Your Land” . 

Click hereor on the photos below to watch Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen lead half a million people as they sing “This Land is Your Land” on the steps of The Lincoln Memorial at the inauguration of the first African American President of the United States Barack Obama.

ABOUT MY FEDERAL SERVICE FOR OUR COUNTRY

For my education in the sciences, I earned a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from WVU.  On August 6, 1986, I entered federal service with the US Department of Energy’s Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center.

In 1990, I invented, and in 1994 patented ( US Patent 5,333,044 “Fluorescent Image Tracking Velocimetry” ), a flow imaging technology to see and measure the flow of inorganic particles through power plants and the flow of blood cells in artificial hearts and lungs. My US Patent 5,333,044 was made possible by my access to nuclear weapons technologies from the US’s and UK’s premier nuclear weapons labs.

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A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT VIETNAM VETS I KNEW, LOVED AND WORKED WITH

US Navy Chaplain

Captain Richard Black. 

US Navy Chaplain Captain Richard Black. He was my father-in-law and mentor for ten years.  He volunteered for three tours in Vietnam.  He went in on the vanguard with US Marines carrying an M16.

 When a Marine was wounded, he put down his M16 and became a US Navy Chaplain. He pulled an ecumenical book of prayers from the pocket over his heart and told the Marine whatever he needed to hear.

For his second tour he was in Con Thein the full year of 1967 during some of the fiercest fighting in Vietnam.  In one year, 1419 US Marines were killed and 9000 wounded.  Con Thein means “the hill of angels. Marines called Con Thien

“HELL ON THE HILL OF ANGLES”

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US Air Force Pilot

and POW Joe Kittinger. 

US Air Force Pilot Joe Kittinger was one of Chaplain Black’s best friends.

Kittinger was a Prisoner of War in Vietnam in a cell at the infamous Hanoi Hilton. 

In the next cell was POW US Navy Pilot John McCain.

Click here to watch US Navy Captain Chaplain Black talk about being
“prone on the ground with Marines under attack from the Viet Cong”
and his prayer for
“sacrificial military service for our beloved country”
at the dedication of the Joe Kittinger Memorial in Orlando. 

I was there.  Afterwards POW Joe Kittinger and four other Vietnam POWs went to Captain Black’s house.  I sat with them in the living room. I knew what was coming.

 They were going to swear to lynch Jane Fonda.  She must have good security.

ABOUT MY BIOENGINEERING WORK WITH

LIEUTENANT COLONEL DR. BRACK HATTLER, MD, PHD

BATTLEFIELD SURGEON IN VIETNAM

Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Hattler was my colleague and friend for 20 years.

“Dr. Brack G. Hattler took patients for whom other doctors had given up all hope.   In one case, he gave a woman a double lung transplant, then danced the tango with her months later.”   Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Dr. Hattler earned an undergraduate degree in French from Duke University, then a medical degree from Cornell University. He then earned a PhD in microbiology and immunology from Duke, while serving as Chief Resident in Cardiac Surgery.

He served as a battlefield surgeon in Vietnam.

When he returned home, he served as the

Chief of Organ Transplant Services at the

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

In Vietnam Dr. Hattler watched helplessly as US soldiers suffocated because their lungs had been damaged by chemicals of war. 

This inspired Dr. Hattler to invent the Hattler Respiratory Support Catheter. It can be quickly inserted to temporarily function as a lung.

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Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Brack Hattler

Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering Dr. Harvey S. Borovetz (co-founder and first Chair of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Bioengineering) brought LTC Dr. Hattler to see my DOE Particle Flow Analysis Lab .  I was already working with Harvey in my DOE lab under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Below is the header for the CRADA. Click here or on the CRADA header below to see the entire CRADA

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Click here for more about my
bioengineering work with Dr. Borovetz.

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Anatomical configuration of the

battery powered Novacor LVAD

Heart Transplant Surgeon Dr. Bob Kormos prepares a Novacor LVAD for implant.

 I took this photo.

Lieutenant Colonel Hattler explained to me why he was developing his Respiratory Support Catheter.   He asked me if I could help.  We got to work right there on the spot.  For the next couple hours we made a plan for the development of the Hattler Respiratory Support Catheter in my DOE lab.  The next day Dr. Borovetz’s PhD student Laura Lund arrived to start work in my lab.

Dr. Hattler and his team worked together with me and the DOE staff in my  Particle Flow Research Lab at the DOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center.  Below is a photo of me in my DOE lab applying the flow imaging technology of US Patent 5,333,044 to an in-vitro version of the Hattler Respiratory Support Catheter. 

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Dr. Laura Lund

I created the video shown below using the flow imaging technology of my US Patent 5,333,044 to visualize and measure the flow of blood cells driven by the micro-turbine (5mm diameter) in the Hattler Respiratory Support Catheter.

The micro-turbine is spinning at 5000 RPM.

High speed video was taken at 7300 frames/sec.

Web-Stat web statistics Click here or on the snapshot below to watch the video.

Below is a Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) map of the Lagrangian trajectories of tracer particles. 

The trajectories are psuedocolored by the average velocity along the trajectory

 The technology I relied on to  produce this Lagrangian map with would become US Patent 8,391,552 on March 5, 2013.

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The Hattler Respiratory Support Catheter.

ALL GAVE SOME

SOME GAVE ALL

A respiratory gas exchange catheter: In vitro and in vivo tests in large animals - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

 

 

YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

I was honored that Dr. Hattler asked me to co-author with him and Dr. Borovetz, the original paper introducing his Hattler Respiratory Support Catheter.  We published our paper in the peer-reviewed

Journal of the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs.

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J. ASAIO, Volume. 38, Issue Number 3, 1992

Since the COVID epidemic in 2021, the FDA has approved the next generation of the Hattler Respiratory Support System, The HEMOLUNG® System – ALung Technologies, Inc.
to support COVID patients in acute respiratory failure.

SOME OF THE GREAT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES I WORKED WITH

Click here or on the images below for more info about
the great federal employees I was honored to work with, including:

Our Sixth Secretary of Energy

Four Star Admiral James D. Watkins

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The photo on the right shows Distinguished Dr. Borovetz and Admiral Watkins with me in my lab at the DOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center. Harvey was showing The Admiral an artificial heart we were working on, the Novacor Left Ventricular Assist Device. It was in clinical trials at Pittsburgh Presbyterian Hospital, St Louis Medical Center and Stanford Medical Research Institute.  Admiral Watkins was Commander of the Pacific Fleet and a protégé of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Rickover is known as the “Father of the Nuclear Navy”

Our Twelfth Secretary of Energy

Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Steven Chu

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In the photo, I am seated, NETL Director  Dr. Anthony V. Cugini is on the right, and on the left is Research Chemist Bob Warzinski.
The lady in red is a DOE press handler.

In the center is Secretary of Energy Nobel Laureate Dr Steven Chu.  He is levitating atoms in his hand to show us how he won a Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a technology to capture and levitate atoms with coherent electromagnetic waves.

Dr. Chu did his Nobel winning research at the
DOE Lawrance Berkeley National Laboratory.

On September 1, 2023, we lost a great federal champion for our country, our ninth Secretary of Energy
and twenty-first Ambassador to the United Nations

The Honorable Bill Richardson-Lopez III

Click here to see a letter I received from
Secretary of Energy Richardson

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WHAT INSPIRED ME TO BECOME A FEDERAL RESEARCH ENGINEER

WITH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY?

Jimmy Carter
US Navy Officer
USS Seawolf

Nuclear Submarine.

 

Click here for my tribute and thanks
to my hometown heroes, Congressmen Harley O. Staggers Sr and his son Attorney Congressman Harley O. “Buckey” Staggers Jr, and to a US Navy Officer and Engineer on the USS Seawolf Nuclear Submarine.
Jimmy Carter.

When I was 16-years-old I watched President Carter and Congressman Harley O. Staggers Sr, Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce at the Camp David Peace Accords. 

Harley Staggers

WWII US Navy Air Navigator Pacific and Atlantic

 

At the Camp David Peace Accords, the President of Egypt Anwar Sadat and the Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin signed the first formal peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state.  That peace treaty ended the OPEC Oil Embargo which ended the United States’ Energy Crisis of the 1970’s  (1973-1978). 

This inspired me to become an engineer, then to serve our country with the United States Department of Energy. I had the full behind-the-scenes support of these two friends from “The Friendliest Town in the USA,” Keyser, WV, population 4000.

Congressman Harley Orrin Staggers Sr.

Chair of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce from 1967 through 1981. Born in Keyser, WV in 1907, the 9 th of 15 children of an Irish railroad worker. Before entering national politics: he coached the football team at Potomac State College in Keyser; served as a U.S. Navy Air Navigator in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II; and served as the elected Sheriff of Mineral County, WV.

Congressman Harley O. “Buckey” Staggers Jr.

Born in 1951 in Washington DC.

Graduate of Harvard University and WV School of Law.  Buckey served as a WV State Senator from 1980 through 1982.  In 1982, my father, Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer, was his campaign manager when he was elected to Congress. He then made my father his Senior Advisor for ten years while he served  on the House Committee for the Judiciary and the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.

In 1952 Congressman Staggers Sr founded the USBM Appalachian Experiment Station in Morgantown WV.  The photo below shows Congressman Staggers Sr watching The Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman sign the contract for the Appalachian Experiment Station.  It is now the Morgantown site of the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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MY CAREER GOAL: TO INVENT A WAY TO SEE AND MEASURE

INDVIDUAL PARTICLE BEHAVIOR

IN THE DENSE PARTICLE FLOWS OF CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BEDS

From 1984 through 1986, the subject of my research for my Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering at WVU was to develop instrumentation to measure the flowrate of particles in the risers of Circulating Fluidized Beds.  I did this research at the National Science Foundation WVU Fluid-Particle and Fluidization Research Center in Morgantown.

When I graduated in 1986, I had job offers from both the DOE Morgantown Energy Technology Center and the DOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center.

Through my research I’d learned that Dr. George Klinzing at the University of Pittsburgh was the world’s leading expert in measuring dense particle flows in pneumatic conveying lines.  The riser of a CFB is a dense particle in a pneumatic conveying line.  So I chose the DOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center for one reason: I wanted to work with Dr. George Klinzing.

ChemE's Dr. George Klinzing receives honorary doctorate from Australia's University of New Castle

For ten years, from 1987 to 1997, I had the largest, best equipped, best staffed laboratory in the world for the study of multiphase flows.  It was the Particle Flow Analysis Facility located in the “High Bay” of Building 94 at the DOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center. 

The main goal of my research in my DOE lab, was to develop a high-speed imaging technology to see and measure individual particle behavior inside the dense flow fields of Circulating Fluidized Beds.

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The Particle Flow Analysis Facility at the USDOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center.

It is now the Pittsburgh site of the USDOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

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THE ATTACKS TO REMOVE ME FROM FEDERAL SERVICE

THEN DISCREDIT AND SILENCE ME

SO TRUMP COULD GIVE THE TECHNOLOGY OF MY US PATENT 8,391,552

TO THE SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY

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When Trump became President on January 20, 2017, he appointed the Director of the DOE NETL Dr. Grace Bochenek as his interim Secretary of Energy.  Two weeks later the attacks began to remove me from federal service, discredit me and silence me.  I was attacked at the Pittsburgh site of the DOE NETL from February 3, 2017 through July 9, 2018.  They were using a social technology psychologists refer to as Weaponized Workplace Mobbing.

Trump wanted to give the technology I invented to The Saudi Royal Family. He was going to remove the protection of the US Patent & Trademark Office from the technology I invented and protected with US Patent 8,391,552.  He was going to have my name as the inventor replaced with the names, Dr. Ronald W. Breault and Justin Weber. 

Those frauds would replace my name with theirs  as the inventor. They wanted to help Trump steal my life’s work so he could, then give it for free to the murderer of a Washington Post journalist.

DOE federal employee Workplace Bully Dr. Ronald Wayne Breault:

thief, lair, and violent “domestic enemy” of the United States of America.

 

Below are the leaders of the Weaponized Workplace Mobbing

NETL Director Dr. Grace Bochenek, former Secretary of Energy under Trump, former Director of the US Army Chemical and Biological Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM).

NETL Chief Counsel Susan E. Malie, former City Solicitor of Pittsburgh, former Director of the City of Pittsburgh Law Department, and Chief Counsel for the Pittsburgh Police.

NETL Law Director Mark Hunzeker, former Navy JAG Commander, General Counsel for 60,000 combat-ready troops, corps leader for 800 attorneys.

Allan K. Lichvar.  NETL Chief Security Officer.   Former Security Officer for Building Security and High Risk Visitors at the DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The names of the other Constitution violating criminals are listed
further below on this page.

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On March 20, 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS), de facto leader of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the murderer of a Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi, met in The Oval Office with convicted felon Donald Trump, a Vietnam draft dodger.

Six months later, on October 2, 2018, MBS had Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.  His body was chopped into small pieces and flushed down a sewer drain.

Why? Because MBS did not like words Kashoggi wrote in the Washington Post. This is the investigative finding of the CIA.

  • Wikipedia identifies him as a journalist, dissident, writer and editor
  • DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now) repeatedly calls him a
    “fierce advocate for democracy, human rights and the rule of law”
  • The Gulf Centre for Human Rights notes that he criticized Saudi repression and was known for speaking out while many human rights defenders were being arrested

The penalty for civil disobedience in the MBS’s Kingdom of Saud, is to have a 15-man hit squad find you, trick you into their trap with promises of safety, then strip you naked, suffocate you to death, chop your body into small pieces, and flush you down a sewer drain.

Then to hide his heinous crimes against humanity, MBS had Mustafa al-Madani, who looks nothing like Kashoggi, put on the clothes of the real Jamal Kashoggi then walk out of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turki, so surveillance cameras could record him.

The photos below show Jamal Khashoggi walking into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul,

Then Mustafa al-Madini, a member of the 15-man hit squad,
walking out of the Saudi Consulate wearing the clothes of Jamal Kashoggi.

PRESIDENT CARTER AND CONGRESSMAN STAGGERS SR

FOUNDING THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

In 1977, President Carter and Congressman Staggers Sr (Chair of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce) founded and funded the United States Department of Energy.  The mission of the Energy Department is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.  The seventeen DOE National Laboratories are the Crown Jewels of Science of the United States.

ABOUT MY WORK FOUNDING THE

DOE NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY

I was a member of the Institutional Strategic Planning Team that created the 15th National Laboratory of the United States, the USDOE National Energy Technology Laboratory. 

Click here or on the images below  to see my name on the original charter for the DOE NETL, and a letter from Senator Robert C. Byrd (Senate Majority Leader, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senate Pro Tempore) to a junior WV State Senator, Attorney Harley O. “Buckey” Staggers Jr .

ABOUT MY WORK ON THE LEAD TEAM RESPONDING
TO THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL LEAK CRISIS

The Deepwater Horizon oil leak crisis was caused by British Petroleum.
It was the most dangerous environmental threat to our country
since we declared independence from the British in 1776.

     

Click here or on the video above to watch President Obama’s
first Oval Office Address to the Nation

The topics of his Oval Office Address were the BP Oil Spill crisis
and the Energy we use to power our country.

“Make no mistake. We will fight this with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes. We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused, and we will do whatever is necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy.  Because there has never been a leak of this size, at this depth, stopping it has tested the limits of human technology. That's why I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge”   President Barack H. Obama

I was one of those engineers. 

THE PLUME TEAM OF THE NATIONAL INCIDENT COMMAND

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US Coast Guard Admiral Thad W. Allen, National Incident Commander of the Unified Command for the DWH crisis

I was on the lead team responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak crisis: the Plume Team of the Flow Rate Technical Group of the National Incident Command .  Our team was led by Dr. Marcia McNutt.  At that time, she was the first woman to serve as the Director of the US Geological Survey since it was founded in 1879.  She is now the first woman to serve as the President of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS was founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 to serve as pro bono “Advisers to the Nation” on all scientific matters.

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Dr. Marcia McNutt

then Director of the US Geological Survey, now President of the National Academy of Sciences

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The Plume Team of the National Incident Command at the
NOAA Command Center in Seattle.  Dr. McNutt is in the middle.
I am on the far right.

Click here to see all of my Awards

An award from the Director of the US Geological Survey for my
“Exemplary Service to the Nation”

 MY PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Click here to see my peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals,
including the paper I wrote with Dr. McNutt and published
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

It is the scientific basis for the $20.8 billion fine.

FUN FACT: British Petroleum started out as The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

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Prof. Ömer Savaş,

UC Berkeley, Commando Squad Leader, Turkish Army

About my research on deep sea oil leaks at Naval Weapons Station Earle, UC Berkeley, and the
USDOE National Energy Technology Laboratory.

My work at Naval Weapons Station Earle was funded ($738,000) by the USDOI Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).

BSEE is a federal law enforcement agency.

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Dr. Ray Cocco

President and Chief Technical Officer, PSRI in Chicago

For five years I was under a Litigation Hold by the US Department of Justice in the DOJ v. BP Multi District Litigation 2179 “Oil Spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon” case in the US District Court for Eastern Louisiana, The Honorable US District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier presiding .

Click here to see the DOJ Litigation Hold

Click here for more about the important role I played in stopping the damage being done to 1000 miles of US shoreline of five Gulf States, and in causing British Petroleum to be fined $20.8 billion.  It is the largest single fine of a single entity in US history

Those funds went to the fifty million people of five Gulf states to recover and rebuild from the damage done by British Petroleum. 

MY US PATENT 8,391,552 AND THE DEEPWATER HORIZON

The technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 was a critically important tool I used. On April 22, 2010, two days after the DWH rig exploded, I asked DOE Patent Attorney Jay Potts to submit the patent application, under the watchful eye of DOE Attorney James T. Lucas, the DOE Deputy Director of Intellectual Property and Business Transactions and former General Counsel of the DOE. 

We were prepared to give the US taxpayers the recognition they deserve for funding the development of US Patent 8,391,552 and return some of their hard earned money to them.

For three years, 2009, 2010, and 2011, I presented my work te independent experts at Merit Reviews.  They reviewed my application of the technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 to petrochemical processing reactors and found it to be “a huge breakthrough” and

“something the petrochemical industry had sought for 50 years.” 

The breakthrough was that I invented technologies to see and measure particle flows inside petrochemical processing reactors. These reactors convert crude oil into consumer end-products like gasoline, diesel fuel and plastics.

The annual profits of the petrochemical processing industry

 is around one trillion dollars

 

About being married to a German Jew who lost family in the holocaust, and being attacked immediately after the worst hate crime against Jewish people in our country’s history: the mass killing at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27, 2018   (pdf)

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About getting “papers” for Russian Jewish scientists who were the subject of antisemitic persecution in Moscow.  The Tree of Life brought them to the US

About my work with experts in the development, detonation, proliferation, proposed use and actual use of nuclear weapons.

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Thomas Merton

About my work as a pacifist and civil rights activist with the Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh, and as an Executive Officer in the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1916

Dorothy Day

About my Cooperative
Research and Development Agreements
including the first CRADA between the USDOE and an outside organization,
the University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine

Hall of Fame Lawyers and Pittsburgh Hall of Shame Lawyers

About my work forecasting the US economy and energy sectors
twenty-five years into the future using the DOE Energy Information Administration’sNational Energy Modeling System

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MEDICAL AND MILITARY APPLICATIONS

OF MY UNITED STATES PATENT 8,391,552

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Saturn V Engine

Click here for more about the applications of my US Patents 5,333,044 &8,391,552,including my work on the world’s first micro-turbine heart pump. It was invented by the great rocket engineer Kenneth Clark Butler.

FUN FACT: Ken was an engineer on the team at Aerojet Rocketdyne that developed the main engine for the Saturn V rocket

that sent the first three astronauts to the moon.

THE SUICIDE KILLING OF THE FIRST DIRECTOR

 OF THE DOE NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY

DR. ANTHONY V. CUGINI

This website is dedicated to the honor and memory of
my colleague and friend for 25 years, Dr. Anthony V. Cugini.

He was the first Director of the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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Anthony with wife Julianne
and their children

Anthony with granddaughter

Anthony was a devout Roman Catholic.

On January 8, 2014, Anthony commited suicide in a barren woodland near the Pittsburgh site of the DOE NETL.

I believe this to be the work of the NETL Law Department.

Click here to read Anthony’s obituary

Organizational Psychologists refer to this phenomenon as

“weaponized workplace mobbing”

NETL Chief Counsel Susan E. Malie, Dr. Ronald W. Breault, Magistrate Ronald Arnoni, and Allegheny County Solicitor Luke C. Kelly and the subordinates under their control did the same thing to me.

After 41 months of their attacks I tried to end my life on April 7, 2019. I was in the ICU and hospital for five days. I barely survived.

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If you are having thoughts of ending your life, there is help available. Please call or text 988 or just
click here to chat with someone who understands.

FDShaffer@Gmail.com   412-320-0510

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