Wile E. Nelson is an environmental wax researcher from Perth, Ontario

Perth, Ontario

Perth is a town in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, Canada . It is located on the Tay River, 83 km southwest of Ottawa, and is the seat of Lanark County.-History:...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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Nelson is an inventor who has discovered many applications for wax in diverse areas (including) the cleanup of oil spills, stabilizing fly ash

Fly ash

Fly ash is one of the residues generated in combustion, and comprises the fine particles that rise with the flue gases. Ash which does not rise is termed bottom ash. In an industrial context, fly ash usually refers to ash produced during combustion of coal...

 piles, coal dust from open rail cars, http://www.anawa.org.au/mining/tailings.htmluranium mine tailings

Tailings

Tailings, also called mine dumps, slimes, tails, leach residue, or slickens, are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction of an ore...

], preventing soil gasses such as radon

Radon

Radon is a chemical element with symbol Rn and atomic number 86. It is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, occurring naturally as the decay product of uranium or thorium. Its most stable isotope, 222Rn, has a half-life of 3.8 days...

 Rn-222 and water entry into homes, cocooning radioactive waste

Radioactive waste

Radioactive wastes are wastes that contain radioactive material. Radioactive wastes are usually by-products of nuclear power generation and other applications of nuclear fission or nuclear technology, such as research and medicine...

 materials in preparation for long term burial, and reclaiming contaminated land for re-cultivation. In 1974 he discovered and demonstrated how to collect and prevent carbon emissions from fossil fueled industrial stacks and internal combustion engines. In 1956 he discovered and developed a wax/oxygen fuel for space rocket propulsion and coined the word, waxogen. He has successfully demonstrated wax technologies for Governments in the U.S.S.R, U.S.A. and Canada.

Willy is dedicating the rest of his life towards the prevention of global warming

Global warming

Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...

in promotion and education of environmental wax technology.