The build-outs will be outdated by the time they are finished and the funding model is all wrong.
Posted by 2011wd in Access To Capital, Advanced Building Materials, Advanced Fuels, Bio Based Research Institute, Bio-AutoGas, Bio-Composites, BioBased, Biocatalysts, Biology, Biorefinery, BTL, Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Catalysts, Green Chemistry, Old Energy Designs, Permaculture, Pre Treatment, Recycled Building Materials, Remediation, Restructure Reports on March 30, 2012
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?
Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
Posted by 2011wd in Institute for Peace & Justice on March 30, 2012
What will you be leaving behind?
Endeavor Entrepreneurs receive guidance through House of Genius at SXSW
Posted by 2011wd in Access To Capital, Event, Non profit on March 26, 2012
National Biomass Map
Posted by 2011wd in 2012 BTL report, 2012 Energy Report, Biomass Map, Biorefinery, BTL, Cellulosic Bio Refinery, downstream, Green Chemistry, Green Design, Green Sustainable Future, green transportation, GTL, integrate CAD/BIM/GIS, Integrated Farming, midstream on March 20, 2012
Notice the three GTL aspects at the bottom of the map page.
We would add two more. Seems some have forgotten old energy designs must be a part of the economic equation
in their bio based economic business model evaluations.
This is directly related to wholesale production cost demands which are extensive in all biomass systems.
This the reason why all of our Green sciences research is both, BTL, & GTL, oriented. If you don’t have Water Remediation added to the mix, your plant is outdated and not truly integrated. If Algae is not a major part of that remediation, you’re not thinking sub systems integration.
The Catalysts is a vital part of the cost effective bio-refinery. Is the Catalysts plentiful & affordable? Is it Bio Based?
Posted by 2011wd in Bio Based Research Institute, Bio-AutoGas, Bio-Composites, Bio-gas, BioBased, Biocatalysts, Biology, Biorefinery, BTL, Cellulosic Bio Refinery on March 12, 2012
Kony 2012.
Posted by 2011wd in Africa, Best Documentary, Human Rights, International Criminal Court, Justice, Non profit, Non-Violent Protest, Peace, Power of Words, Power to the People, Progressive Leadership, Speak Truth To Power, Video on March 12, 2012
Kony is the International Criminal Court’s Most Wanted Man
The Two Sinks for Co2. Algae and Agri-Char
Posted by 2011wd in 2012 BTL report, 2012 Energy Report, Agri Char, Algae, Aquatic Farming, Biorefinery, BTL, CCSC, Cellulosic Bio Refinery, Green Chemistry, Waste To Energy, Water and Waste Treatment on March 11, 2012
If your bio-refinery is truly integrated then you must be advanced in both Algae growth and Agri-Char for the purposes of CO2 Sinks.
It is no longer Carbon Capture and Storage. CCS. It is rather CCSC. Carbon Capture, Storage, & Conversion.
If your not converting CO2 into products, you are missing the clean, green, integration boat.
Bio based understanding matters. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Cradle to Cradle. Natural, Organic. Think, Permaculture.
Posted by 2011wd in 2012 BTL report, 2012 Energy Report, Bio Based Research Institute, Bio-Composites, BioBased, FSC building materials, FSC Lumber, Recycled Building Materials on March 10, 2012
This is what we look for in suppliers. This is what we look for in consulting team members. This is what we look for is green sciences. This is what we look for in all research and study.
FSC Lumber, & Building Materials Matter.
As all FEEDSTOCKS become waste, the choice of biomass is directly related to it’s cradle to cradle, waste VOL.
As BIO-COMPOSITES become a part of the cradle to cradle working green solutions, the question becomes, What do you GROW, & how do you grow it.
Classic example.
Excellent supplier. Wood Composites may become Wood Bio-composites to produce fiber board. The type NO VOC, glue matters. Reducing glue use matters. Energy expense and energy use matters.
They get this because they have been working on green solutions for years. This is the type supplier we are looking for. Think Green, Cost effective and total energy utilization.
Ohio Leads the way providing Algaculture, Agriculture Status.
Posted by 2011wd in 2012 Energy Report, Algae, Aquatic Farming on March 9, 2012
Very important first step for every state, if they truly want Algae growth on a commercial scale.
Those that don’t provide this status approval, simply do not understand the vast no crop, biomass demand that is coming.
Ohio Algaculture provided Agriculture status.
We will not produce without this agriculture status, which has us looking hard at Ohio, NOW.
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