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The build-outs will be outdated by the time they are finished and the funding model is all wrong.

The Talk is of concern for estimated construction cost increases.

This is the very reason why you don’t build big in the first phase of advanced research, design, & development.

This is also why you don’t put all your energy design into one system.

We have been talking about this for years and yet few have had the insight to stop and listen to what we are offering to potential working partners.

Start small and stick with what has been working. Make a profit. Then grow from that operations awareness.

If you don’t know what has been working. We can’t help you. Our 1st Choice potential working partners know & have been doing it for years.

A few words on the subject. Your FEEDSTOCKS are wrong. Much less your Temp.

If selecting this Feedstock and Temp….

It is Green Chemistry that comes from the Thermo Conversion Aspects that should be considered. It is the Separation Tech that should be Advanced if you value the true profit potential as we do.

This is old, as in 2009 but it will get you up to speed on the basics, allowing for a new Biomass Fluid Catalytic Cracking (BFCC) Catalysts

Excellent People. Worthy Goal. How you don’t get cost over runs with this type of large scale objective is beyond our, proven small scale, thinking.

This is not some quick fix green race. Rather it is the Energy Business that is attempting to go green over time.

If you forget that long term fact, you will not be around, nor will your investors make money.

Case in point. The talk is of being able to use old energy refiners. Sure the integrated in the mix would like to see this, however the green in anyone who has been in this research work for over 20 years, might say, Wait a minute. Shouldn’t the Hydroprocessing REACTOR be ADVANCED?

Shouldn’t the design of the New Plant be ADVANCED. If all you are doing is talking about a MORE COSTLY Old System the cost over runs are going to be there because the old systems will also need to be advanced.

This was shown as far back as 2004. Where were some of these new green thinkers then? Even old energy Pros know they need to change how they are building their systems. That means cost overruns every time. So much so, that no one wants to go first with any new build because they know it will be outdated before it is finished, see the latest, coming out of Cal

Bottom line is this. Even the Old Energy Systems must be advanced. What is it going to cost and how long is it going to take? Don’t let anyone blow smoke up your butt. No one knows, but you can bet it will cost more and take longer than anyone attempting to promote any new idea truly understands.

Hence the reason you don’t just focus on BTL & GTL. There is far more to consider and if you are not understanding this yet. We can’t help you.

More than Willing to offer up this. It is going to take far more than any new start up can raise with some IPO. That is nothing more tnan a VC pipedream. When we say this is Large Scale, we are addressing the scope & demand of integration. This is the very reason we have been doing this with our own dime. Expect 25 years of R&D with very little hope of Rev., while in research & design mode. Energy is only one piece of a much bigger puzzle. That puzzle must be integrated, closed looped, & designed with a permaculture understanding and awareness. Old Energy doesn’t even have a CLUE in that regard and doesn’t want one either. Anyone attempting to bring green solutions to old energy design models is barking up the wrong tree and will face overruns strong enough to kill a HORSE.

The old energy integrated can afford that. Can you?

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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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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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How Do I Invite You to Grow Food?

 

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Permaculture Loves DIRT

 

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Green Capitalism Expanding

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Green Opportunities: The KEY. Superior performance at lower costs

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Sustainability on the Farm

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It’s time to go to work. We need to clean up this NATION, NOW.

It is time to put people back to work cleaning up this country. Should have been done two years ago, however no time like the present. As Remediation has always been at the very heart of our efforts, now is the time to build out that business model in full force.

If you are in remediation, engineering, CAD/BIM/GIS design and biobased, we want to talk to you.  It is time to form the very best biobased remediation team we are able to form and start getting the job done on the ground.

For those wanting to wait, we simply say, GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY & GO PLAY GOLF.

The WAITING IS OVER.

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