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   SCIPIO | Dec 3, 2008 | Reply

   I thought the question mentioned, “…the simple solutions…”. Your solutions appear to be based on the assumption that there are bits & pieces of the required technologies missing from the equation. What I see in the market place is a jumbled “salad bowl” of individual technology companies each with one or two pieces of the algae-to-biofuels puzzle. Each puzzle piece being of varying efficiency, complexity, flexibility and cost.

   The only exception to, “all the pieces” being available on the open market is continuous algae harvesting. My company appears to be the only company that has all of the elements of a complete system (harvesting being just one). For the sake of personal responsibility this was done before spending other people’s money building things that by simple logic alone can be predicted to not work, not work well, or not work well for long.

   A “simple solution” would be to have a single non-government entity (by random draw if necessary) match technology companies to create groups whose processes combined would make a complete system from plant food & water-to-biocrude. Thus creating groups if they can work together, of companies with all of the technology necessary to make a go of it in the biofuels business.

   There is already refining capacity for algae oil (biocrude) well in excess of America’s ability to make biocrude to be processed. Maxing that capacity out would provide all the incentive necessary for more refineries. The resulting fuels are identical to petrofuels, but without the CO2 release or the 100 Million year cooking time.

   That’s what I see, and I’m sticking to it.

   SCIPIO

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   stafforddocwilliamson | Dec 7, 2008 | Reply

   The December 3rd comment by SCIPIO suggesting a “match maker” for green energy technology companies is not only a good one, it is one of our core missions for the next few years. Our company, DaoChi Energy of Arizona has been developing waste-to-energy solutions for several years now. We have filed for a patent on our “concentrated algae cultivation” system, and have consulted with companies from the size mega-billion dollar energy company from Asia, to startup companies who had a “good idea” in recognizing a unique market niche for biodiesel. We intend to continue our work in innovation with a catalytic ultrasonics device, but we feel our main mission is to create “marriages” of groups of companies (including financiers and venture capitalists) to create thousands of new, small green energy projects around the world.
   We don’t plan to move to Utah, but those “marriages” can, of course, be polygamous if one company has key technology or technologies needed by a number of others, or if any one company can take on a dozen (or more) projects at a time because it already has the capacity on staff, or the management experience to coordinate global deployment of resources.
   We also envision that by taking sewage processing and clean water technologies to underdeveloped nations and regions that the economic development of creating “islands of energy independence” will rapidly advance the communities with that advantage and thereby stimulate additional demand for clean tech products and services in neighboring regions. It is, after all, a global climate change crisis, a global financial system crisis and it therefore is also a global opportunity to effect massive changes that will create stupendous economic growth throughout the world if we can use the introduction of “green tech” to bring emerging nations into the fully industrialized community of nations.
   DaoChi Energy will be enlisting the help of governments, NGO’s, financial institutions and corporations to make this happen. We hope that you, and all who read this in the “clean tech” sector will join with us, in this transformative effort. Please do not hesitate to contact us at http://daochienergy.com/ for more information.

   Sincerely,

   Stafford “Doc” Williamson
   President
   DaoChi Energy of Arizona

   p.s. In theory at least a law was passed last July (2008) creating the DOE’s ARPA-E, for advanced research on clean/green technologies. Reportedly it already included an allocation of funds. It seems, however that this “agency” still does not exist, but certainly DOE has been handed the mandate and the money to get green tech on a powerful development trajectory. (and that doesn’t even count Senator Barbara Boxer’s “Environment and Public Works” committee in the US Senate where she had promised to introduce a US$15 billion/year bill for energy clean development for the next 10 years, to be ready to sign on inauguration day.)

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