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Goodbye Hydrocarbon Economy: Hello New Generation of Technologies - Renewable Energy – Decision Time

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Biomass – Clean, Abundant and Renewable = Sustainable

There is no one panacea for providing the planet’s renewable energy requirements. When searching for a renewable energy technology, it has to be affordable, sustainable, cost effective and certainly not capital intensive. The creation of renewable energy projects has to take into account the technical, environmental and economical barriers. The benefits have to be widespread and be able to strengthen the local, regional and national economies. It must be able to create new jobs and increase the social and wellbeing of those that it will provide. There is only one possible avenue to go down, when we look at the options open to us, and that is the biomass to energy route. Why?

ü The next generation of technology is the missing link for other technologies to use green biomass fuels

ü Technologies can be sized to provide power to a home, to commercial and industrial projects, and from small communities to reasonable size towns

ü No large investments of limited funds, to expand or build expensive electrical grid infrastructures and distribution systems to bring power to rural areas

ü Excellent for remote and isolated areas and islands for off-grid application and supplementing unstable/unreliable electricity supplies and for back-up heat, power and electricity

ü The creation of new industries and jobs through the processing of local biomasses to a liquid and/or gaseous energy

ü Not necessary to take from the human and animal food chain

One of the underlying problems is that most countries energy needs are based on hydrocarbon fuels, but for many that necessitates the use of vital capital resources to import petroleum based fuels. This can reduce the standard of living in some countries. Biomass to energy technologies use locally grown biomasses which has shown that a country can reduce the amount of imported fuel to produce energy.

The next generation of biomass to energy technology allows energy to be consumed where it is produced, unlike petroleum based fuels. For example, when producing hydrogen syngas you do not need expensive storage and transportation systems for hydrogen syngas, because the hydrogen syngas is being used as it is produced. Expensive transportation and storage of hydrogen is one of the major reasons that has prevented the wide spread use of fuel cells. Speak to us, because that has all changed!

The advances that have been made with biomass to energy technology now allows for small water systems, with ultra violet technology for purification, to be powered by the same biomass to energy solution to bring clean water to a community as well as heat, cooling, and electricity. One Location – One Technology!

Don’t forget the carbon footprint and its link to the taxing of green house gases. The provision of heat and electricity brings punitive taxation, when using petroleum and fossil based fuels that create green house gases. Our direct link to the next generation of biomass to energy technologies provides a perfect environmental footprint by using the cleanest fuels, thereby avoiding green house gas taxation.

Martin Parr, our Chairman and CEO, is also a signatory to the Copenhagen Communiqué. Thus he supports the need for developed countries to help the developing ones, especially when it comes to finding the funds to pay for the necessary projects, to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. A major stumbling block at COP15!

During 2009 he has been able to bring together governments, technologists and financial institutions to look at the global economic crisis; what with the lack of available funds for important infrastructure projects and how we can redress this significant shortfall. We believe he is achieving what Copenhagen is failing to achieve! More…