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Green Country Priority, Inside Top 100 Green Utility Track

Current Country Short List subject to change. FX & Mobility dictate project Dev considerations. Grant Finance Mechanisms that support Alternative Energy must be more attractive than current U.S. Outlines.

Green Country Leadership will play a major role in Site Selections. Security is job one. All Enterprises, researchers, staffs, & students, must feel & be save.

Canada

Spain

India

Greece

Brazil

Mexico

Japan

South Korea

Portugal 

Italy

Poland

Norway 

Netherlands

Ireland

Denmark 

Iceland

Germany

France

Belgium 

Sweden

Argentina 

Peru

Australia 

South Africa

Kenya 

Primary Restoration, FLR, GLR, & WPP

Top 25 Countries for Potential Solar Growth. List to be updated.

Geothermal & Water Re, also play a large part in site selection.

Details to Follow.

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Green Non-Profit Bonds

11 States Attend Green Bank Academy

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Green Bonds!! 

Utility Mandates are also valued. Grant Finance will also assist as cost savings are found.

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Loan Guarantee Authority MUST CUT RED TAPE. As CAPEX & OPEX FALL Project Studies Move Forward

Advanced Fuel Energy Projects, demand Studies that require NEXT GEN Proven Finished Work. That work must be cost effective and integrate seamlessly to reduce both CAPEX and OPEX.

Proven GTL is in place as NEXT GEN designs are both TESTED & built for less. BTL most be made smaller and more cost effective across the total PROJECT DESIGN.

CC Power is moving forward with excellent advances. There is a HIGH PRESSURE & HEAT STREAM DEMAND, that must be addressed with reduced numbers.

Every system must be able to ramp up as needed and must be modular. If your BUILD TEAM is not MODULAR, The OLD Bloated Model is TOO LARGE & Costly, & OUTDATED.

NEXT GEN FAB IS REQUIRED IN THE FIELD. ALL BUILDERS ARE ASKED TO ALLOW THIS OPTION, as effective operations demands on site working solutions, in real time.

WET STORAGE & PROCESSING are ON TRACK as Studies are completed.

7 F Studies are moving forward following A&D Work. All A&D Heads are invited to updated data.

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Green Sciences will bring a new Green Ecosphere

The primary task has always been to make this new green design concept both cost effective, & green jobs oriented.

People require a working wage. If your green design doesn’t talk about putting people to work
what real long term benefit is it for the people. It must be People, Plant, Profit,

NOT…

Planet, People.

That Green Jobs, Profit Oriented,
Sustainable Model required a total Energy redesign, making all old plants outdated and obsolete.

Old energy profit operations will not seek a slow phase out, via remodel, or restructure.
These old energy profit plants & properties are very much a major part of the current job market.
This fact makes older energy core assets very much a part of the present day landscape.

This affords Old Energy both profit and core energy assets, & the luxury of dictating the green design pace, in large part due to much needed jobs.

Only when those jobs are replaced by a green operations that beats old energy in
Price as well as clean sustainable design will any long term green future truly take hold.
Until then most efforts will be regarded as green washing for PR purposes only.

Window dressing to appear the part, & excellent green review of current efforts seen
Here… http://www.greenwashingindex.com/

It is the Green Sciences that will bring real green change, as truly sustainable change might be
Supported & achieved.

That green future can now be seen in it’s first phases.

These first phases will not be viewed by many as being clean or green enough.

Old Energy will own a very large part of the first phases, end results.
What they choose to do with that work, will depend on who is leading, each profit center.

Change is possible even with an old energy mindset, however limited the view.
Will they want to spend the capital needed to phase out their own, old plants?
With time, Perhaps.

With, or Without them, the first phase begins today.

They are no longer needed.

Research Design begins the first phase draft in…

Biology
Green Chemistry
Bioneering
Alt. Energy
Sustainable Architecture
Advanced Building Materials
Advanced Fuels
BTL
GTL
AD Systems
Algae Macro, Micro
Agri Char
Aquatic Farming
Bio AutoGas
Bio Composites
Bio Polymers
FCC Catalysts
Bio Catalysts
Green Building Materials
FSC Lumber
FSC Building Materials
Green Chemistry Raw Materials
CAD/BIM/GIS
CHP
CCSC
Natural Enzymes & Oils
Natural Gas
TES
Water Re
STE
Solar
Wind
Trees
BOP

J.P.

The question will always be how long will it take to build? The answer is impossible to hear and restricted by Major PE, and yet working examples can be seen around the globe. These examples are Rural and found in non-profit paths.

Here the efforts are viewed as for profit, which limits and holds private, both the details and the study, while knowing the final build must be BOP wise.

You can find and assist the non profit working examples but you must know where to look. You must begin to see BOP, as something that matters to you.

The short answer. Far longer than anyone might first guess, simply because their scope will be too small. Only if you begin to see it as a life long dream, will you begin to see the scope of truly sustainable design, much less BOP development on a macro level.

In fact the answer is as difficult to provide as the research work itself.
From research to 1st Phase design, just getting to this day…

Over 20 years and way past first projections. Could we leap forward? As BOP awareness shifts the mindset, YES.

1st Phase Design to model, all subject to major PE and Team Building.

From today to endless studies, searching the globe over, to find, what might become ideal.

Model to development, also subject to both research, redesign, & PE.

From the end of the studies to the end of the models, to the end of design phases.

My own goal. In this lifetime.

To guess the answer then, is to guess longer than you might imagine, & then triple it.

Just to get to this day, over twenty years later, 1st Phase Design,
Feels like a miracle to me.

If you made it here, Think Remediation by Green Chemistry, & BOP working examples.

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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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Gevo has been rated third in 2011.

Gevo has the new fuel product regarded by many in the know, as higher alcohols attractive.

GEVO 7.17 0.50 6.52% 2.17 187.12M -40.08M 3.10 38.42% 5.60 -2.15 -0.54 26.10M -0.15 -18.22% -0.56

They also have a negative EBITDA of
-40.08M for 2011.

With a 26M float and the forward est. earnings projected to be -53 cents per share, it would seem the negative EBITDA will keep coming for a while.

No one has proven to us as yet, that the science for their favorite alternative fuel, has proven to be cost effective per gal. From what we know with regard to that complex higher alcohol objective the price has not come down by the gal. While we admire the higher alcohol objective, we find it hard to believe it can be produced cheaply as yet.

If we are wrong, we will eat crow, as this is just our two cents. Why not, PROVE IT. What you don’t hear with all of their science speak, is any words with regard to cost effective production costs. Not one word. Is it any wonder then the negative numbers keep coming.

The first question that should always be asked with every new alternative fuel blend & feedstock is this. What is your est. cost to produce per gal?

If they can’t tell you. Move on down the road.

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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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What is the true cost of cleaning up the 1600 sites on the watch list?

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The secret watch list, exposed..

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It would seem the list is secret even to the worst polluters as none of this info is found on their company sites.

So what is the projected estimated cost to clean up the worst polluter sites in the country?

Hire Our team, & We will provide you with the details, company by company. MNDA Required.

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