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The Catalysts is a vital part of the cost effective bio-refinery. Is the Catalysts plentiful & affordable? Is it Bio Based?

Bio-Catalysts

Biocatalysts

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Hydroprocessing demands both a cost effective Thermochemical Conversion Platform & a permaculture awareness

At least they are on the thermochemical conversion path.

They are missing the boat from several directions, however just understanding the drop in, fuel and chemical demand. puts this work ahead of most.

Of the $1.4B invested last year, only 1/3 was geared toward Thermochemical. Without the Chemistry, the biology is simply held back, & will remain on hold.

If your biology is not running toward an Algae growth path, or you are still stuck in Corn, Study your closed loop, none crop, biomass objectives, all over again.

If you don’t have permaculture in your design, forget your integration model, it is simply flawed.

If your GTL is OFF, then get out now. You can’t get there from here without this extremely important phase. BTL without GTL advancements is still 5 years away from the projected target yield. If your not addressing the two key price reduction demands now with all your time and money, then you still will not get there.

It’s not a matter of producing. It is a matter of producing at an affordable price over time. Even if you find the price reductions in every key area, operations is still demanded to prove commercial success. The risk from here is still extremely high that no profit will ever be made even with all the work that has been done. This is why, throwing money at the problem has never been the answer. What is required is time for research. Something most simply do not wish to give without the price that is required to be paid. A lifetime of work, while still not knowing if it will be cost effective. That is the true cost of this research.

Anyone who tells you different is blowing smoke up their own rear end and serves you no purpose. You can’t dream up the yield per ton, or pray for the cost per gal. to magically go down, without better science. We have the best in their field exhibiting very exciting promise & yet we are smart enough to know we are still years away from anything proven. We are also smart enough to know the sub systems must be cost effective to BUILD, AS the construction costs must come down, while operating expenses are reduced. The math becomes fuzzy directly related to the size & the never ending cost over runs, which no one wishes to address.

What you don’t do is start out with a production yield objective of 200,000 gals a day. This is throwing money at the problem. Massive mistake.

The only way to get costs in line is to reduce the plant size from the start. If you have fixed numbers per sub system, we are buying. If you have proven operations we are buying. Otherwise don’t waste your time here. The fact that storage, transportation, distribution, expenses, across the board, is not even addressed & speaks vols. to the lack of understanding with regard to total integrated production costs.

This is not simply downstream. This is midstream coming together with downstream. If your not on that over all cost expense demand number, your off by a MILE.

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What % of the GTL numbers come from Bio Gas?

What does the AD system look like?

What is the waste to energy program like?

What does the water and waste treatment look like?

The Bio-Gas vol. Should MATTER.

What does the enzymatic program look like? This is key.

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The Bio Refinery Objectives. 2012

2012

To Design and Build,

A new breakthrough, competitive, sustainable, safe and eco-efficient processing routes for the simultaneous manufacture of transportation fuels, (CH)power, food, feed, and added-value bio-based products (chemicals, materials). As first presented by IEA BioEnergy While this objective was spelled out in 2010, we have been working on this integration concept for over 20 years.

The idea it was possible to be sustainable and not be integrated with your design build was never something we believed in, nor did we ever see a crop based feedstock as any type of sustainable feedstock source. If you don’t have algae in the mix you will never get there. If your algae research is not advanced, you can simply start over. If your biology is any less than your chemistry work, your lost. If your starting now be ready to spend a lifetime learning from your mistakes.

Insightful proof our Bio Based BTL & GTL research institute is the future. What must be added is a training program for GTL operations and conversion. The CHP aspect is an important aspect to integration, we would only add more power will be needed on site from day 1.

If you don’t know the green legal teams and understand their many demands, you might want to join their non-profit .orgs and get up to speed.

We are not saying it is required to agree with everything any lawyer requires. We are simply saying you might consider sitting down and listening to the clean, green, viewpoints presented by very insightful people who care about a sustainable green future.

We don’t agree with the focus or direction taken by the green legal powers that be, however we respect many of their long term objectives. They do not understand the KEY PRIMARY aspect of BTL and GTL energy production, nor do that understand working wages and the demand for low cost fuel. That is their mistake. It is & always has been, PEOPLE, PLANET, PROFIT, not the other way around.

1Eco is, has, and always will be our green sustainable liquid fuels distribution brand across the downstream and midstream path. We understand every phase of the old energy business model and have always reported our view that this is required energy understanding. This does not mean we will not be selling gasoline and diesel on site. We will. What it means is we will have a solar powered fueling center, that offers bio based fueling products, hydrogen, & electric power hook up. It will not look like any fuel center in the market place today, however the cost demands per location for redesign are so extensive, we are exploring new locations. This doesn’t happen until our first Bio-Refinery is producing fuel. One of our primary production products will be our own Bio based GTL blended gas liquid. There will be no biorefinery in the world that will be more cost effective, directly related to our GTL research. If you have missed GTL then you have missed the the whole midstream and downstream value chain and we can’t help you. While we are offering to assist select companies with signed consulting agreements, most simply can’t see the forest for the trees. They are burning through money now and they will be burning through money until it is gone, then they will simply go get more, from investors willing to THROW MONEY AT THE BASIC BUSINESS MODEL. In that case, maybe they might want to limit the negative numbers per quarter until they get their research heading in the right direction. We are not cheap, however we are always fair & more than happy to assist those who begin to understand they need consulting assistance.

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The size of the plant is as important as the design and build.

Anything over 30,000 gals a day is to much during the first phase.

It is possible to see large scale development projects ongoing in alternative fuels and nothing is more ill advised than spending to much money or building to a plant that is far to big. If there is not a blend of BTL and GTL Advanced research in the build, the cost is misguided at best. What comes of these large scale plants is poor utilization rates and that can be seen across the board. Add in transport costs and you have a recipe for operations & economic disaster.

Only when the mix is integrated and designed around modular model phase advancement will it be designed correctly. Anything else is simply a waste of money.

There are excellent people within the research and business development arms of the alternative energy business. Those people are of interest to us. As we review each company in the BTL & GTL reports we are only reporting on the numbers spent and the design and build as we see it.

This does not mean their research and business efforts don’t show promise or that they may not experience growth in the outlying years. Their research maybe wonderful and their business model may yet prove successful. We simply see everything from the investor side of the line.

Viewed as if, it were are own money, because it has been. Every step of the way.

Plants are reported with yearly production models. We find that most amusing. As if the plant will be operating all day,every day. What our lifetime in operations has taught us from the trouble shooter side of the line, is this. The key to success is learning operations and managing operations over time with a cost effective business model and trained staff. Past that you never know if your going to be producing the next day or not.

You sure as hell, don’t know your annual numbers, unless you have a working history of proven results, which is not the case with any integrated bio-refinery, anywhere in the world. Might look good to help raise money from investors, but otherwise, it’s bull corn.

What the markets do tell is this. If you can’t produce for $2 a gal, get out of the business.

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It was never about who could raise the money. A lifetime later, it is still about the design and build

That being said, even the ideal design and build was never going to be ready until the time was right. Only when all of the pieces started to come together would true integration start to take shape. While the integration concept is addressed, Permaculture is not a part of their old design, or working model. That has only taken place if you have chosen to see the truly clean, green, sustainable alternatives to the past, crop for fuel, poor design and build.

Those permaculture pieces are finally coming together for both the natural oils and pretreated enzymatic complex sugars. Those green chemistry organic designs will start out small with a production rate that doesn’t over produce and does not need to concern itself with the price of gasoline or diesel.

With that, the design and build must be both unique, & cost effective. It is, as if seeing, Ethanol, Bio Diesel, & crop based sugars, all over again. Same Song, different verse, like some broken record. Billions raised in search of producing fuel as an alternative to gasoline & diesel. How many hundreds of plants have been built, all with the best of intentions. How many are producing fuel now with ongoing operations are producing a profit? Keep in mind if the feedstock is a CROP based biomass IT IS NOT regarded as sustainable.

There are a few who see the future. They are on the right path & yet they still may not get there. Unless you are integrated, you’re only dreaming.

Without and extensive trained staff even that is nothing more than a pipe dream. Operations the key, & that will demand and army of trained professionals. We will first work to train those workers. It is, & always will be, about the very finest trained working team.

To be sure, the design and build will be small enough to produce a profit and expand with the advancements in research as more cost effective operations are discovered with operations as the guide.

The story is told in the 52 week High’s & lows

Price† Change High Low
Light Crude 106.70 -2.14 108.70 93.95
Corn 655.00 -0.25 792.00 557.50
Gasoline 3.27 -0.0796 3.30 2.50
Ethanol 2.26 +0.00 2.26 2.25

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2012 Green Sustainable Development Planning & Design, demands BIM, GIS.

As we look to find first choice providers for all future projects, development planning and design plays a very important visual & modeling role.

So much so, that we find ourselves seeking out the people that understand these visual and modeling methods from a truly green sustainable perspective. This means understanding integrated permaculture at the advanced BIM, Building information modeling, and GIS, geographic information system, level.

If you, or your green team, understands sustainability and is able to show green results using BIM & GIS, We want to talk to you.

Our 2012 Energy Report will include the BIM, GIS, development planning and design models needed to move forward.

The Future of development planning and design is NOW.

We welcome all truly green sustainable development planners, designers, engineers and architects as they might wish to consider assisting our green team reach our long term objectives.

Together we may seek to change development with the earth first in mind.

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Finally the FED gets it RIGHT. FINALLY

The question becomes how long with that last. If they stick to their guns, we might begin to see the value levels that are real relative to current market conditions. Once there, we might begin to rebuild from the base valuations which have been hidden by past FED ACTION.

MAYBE JUST MAYBE, we might begin to build a new alternative energy sustainable future, when they learn to stay out of the way.

We shall see.

As for us, We ARE READY.

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It would seem some one is finally waking up.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/23/us-usa-spr-release-idUSTRE75M3GS20110623

Half coming from U.S. Reserves

It’s called buy low, sell high. Since when has it been any different.

If you had the 727M barrels, when would you sell?

When would you buy?

There is record supply, the supply and demand is totally out of wack, & yet the price is near all time highs.

Lucky it’s not me trading that reserve. I would sell every damn barrel. Then I would short the bastard.

Then I would turn around and buy it back. I would damn sure get rid of all that sour first.

Then I would take the $39B loan protection set aside for N.P. and shift it to alternative energy production and you can bet your butt I would produce FUEL and not need a DROP OF OIL. If you’re producing power at the same time it simply means you know what the hell you’re doing. It’s called integration. Anything less is a WASTE OF MONEY.

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Price Swing is directly related to regional supply and demand

The US has an Over Supply of oil at present. The rest of the world’s market is tighter, hence the supply and demand, PRICE SHIFT.

This may get wider with TIME as WE START TO INCREASE both BTL and GTL, US Domestic, see…

http://1eco.com/2011/01/31/biofuels-should-replace-m-e-imports/

As for SOUR and SWEET. Guess which refinery might get CLOSED over time? Which one gets FINED if it isn’t updated to CLEAN that SOUR.

Didn’t someone get HIT with a $700M upgrade settlement just the other day. Seems I read that somewhere. Numbers like that may not matter to Big Cap. When you’re a little independent those kind of numbers can make you a little less likely to put up with the SMELL. If you give TWO CENTS worth of attention to CLEAN GREEN SOLUTIONS you might begin to learn the difference in the two products.

I myself prefer this…

http://bit.ly/dLA3o0

Natural Gas does play a part in this as it MIGHT play a part in GTL, or Power to reduce production costs associated with BTL or GTL.

By the way. Which country has the MOST GOLD?

Is it CHINA?

Is it Japan?

Who guessed Gold & Silver would go up as the price of the product went down here in the US, while at the same time going up everywhere else?

Who ever you are, IT would seem you just WON the short term prize.

The question becomes this? What does this do to the currency plays. It’s still a few WILD moves OUT as YET. Can you see IT? It is coming.

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