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To: Snowshoe who wrote (4715)	3/7/2006 5:01:11 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 219821

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To: Snowshoe who wrote (4715)	3/8/2006 2:42:26 AM
From: Crabbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219821

You may be right. I just might have gotten the religion of alternative fuels. However, I am being objective when I realize that we (the USA and the world as well) must break our romance with fossil fuels off ASAP. I am a libertarian by political nature, and side neither with the liberals nor the conservatives, so please don't classify me with the tree huggers. But, Global Warming is looming problem that if we haven't crossed the point of no return we certainly soon will. The ocean has warmed at an increasing rate over the last 100 years of increasing CO2 in the atmosphere, it is now 50% higher (280-370 ppm) than it has been in the past 200,000 years. the oceans are reaching the point of not being able to sink any more CO2 and in fact will start releasing CO2 as it's temperature increases thus creating a run away condition. I have no idea what the ultimate effect will be however I do know that in the past the world wide climate has switched to new conditions basically overnight, (as little as a few years). I am religious about all alternative energy sources, wind, solar, bio, tidal, hydro, etc. The three that show me the most promise are Bio, Tidal, and Wind. To enlighten you a little on switch grass, it is a native American prairie grass, it is a perennial, and it is fast growing producing 5-15 tons per acre of dry biomass. Switch grass as a native to the American prairie and grows fantastically well in that environment requiring little or no fertilizer and no irrigation. Tests have shown 80-100 gallons of ethanol per ton of switch grass. Taking the low estimates for both tons per acre and gallons per ton yields 400 gallons of ethanol per acre. the high gives 1500 gallons per acre. As switch grass is a native grass to our Midwest it will grow on the marginal farmland that will not produce soy or corn. Wind is now producing electricity for 4 cents per kilowatt hour and in general is just beginning to tap the available sites and resources. Tidal is nearly completely untapped, some areas, one you are very familiar with (Cook Inlet) have tidal flows that could be tapped that match or exceed the total flow of all rivers in the world combined, tapping these flows require turbines similar to those used to tap wind power. An experimental project by Verdant Power will soon be supplying power to Long Island New York, it is estimated that the tidal flow of the East River alone could supply New York City's electrical needs. 10 or 15 years ago, when the EROEI studies that showed negative balances for ethanol, were done the studies only considered corn as a feedstock. They also utilized farming methods that were much more energy intensive than farming methods today. They did not consider cellulosic ethanol as it was then nearly impossible then to convert cellulose to glucose for fermentation. Today with Genetic Engineering (GM) of yeasts, bacteria, and fungi. You can basically design the bug the way you want it. Xethanol Corp has a yeast that breaks down cellulose to glucose and hemicellulose to xylose. The yeast then ferments both sugars to ethanol. In this day and age of bioengineering that was not a particularly difficult task, select the genes you want from molds and fungi implant in the yeast and it can then produce the enzymes that breakdown cellulosic material. The yeast is also capable of digesting both 6 carbon and 5 carbon sugars to ethanol. I believe that Biomass and other ethanol sources will sooner than we think replace gasoline in our cars and trucks. I am so sure that I am putting my money where my mouth is. I am investing in: XTHN - Xethenol Inc. Specializing in waste to ethanol. business model is to co-locate with waste producers, taking their waste stream and converting it to cellulose, thus in most cases having a negative feedstock cost. An example would be taking paper mill slurry which is already pulverized and in solution suspension and converting it to ethanol. This benefits the paper producer in that he does not have to dry and landfill this material. The waste producer may in many cases share in the cost of the ethanol plant to reduce their waste disposal costs. xethanol.com GSHF - Greenshift Corp. A holding company for companies that provide natural solutions that increase profits as well as provide environmental gains. greenshift.com VRDM - Veridium Corp. One company that Greenshift has invested in, Greenshift owns approximately 65%. Develops and builds processes to recover waste stream products. Example on Feb. 1 Veridium acquired the rights from a sister company (holding of Greenshift) for a Corn Oil Extraction System (T) from Distillers dried grain. leaving the distillers dried grain intact as an animal feed but extracting 75% of the oil. On Feb. 14th they announced their first sale, Feb 27th they announced their second sale, and yesterday Mar 6th they announced their third sale. They have a unique business model in that they install their system at no cost to the ethanol refinery in exchange for the right to buy the corn oil produced at a discount to market and then they resell the oil to Mean Green BioFuels, a sister company that refines biodiesel. The three sales will produce an income stream of 4.2 - 5.4 million per year. Not bad for a company with a market cap of 2.52 million. Installation of this extraction system for a ethanol refinery instantly increases profits by at least $1.5 million or more. there are presently about 90 more refineries that need this technology. In one month and 5 days Veridium has sold 3 companies, I think you may see many more soon. INSQ - Inesq Corp. Again a company substantially owned by Greenshift 80%. Manufacturing unit of the holdings will build the oil extraction equipment for Veridium. Xethanol XTHN is presently at $5.85 today’s volume 296,743 Greenshift GSHF is presently at 0.1459 volume 3,481,120 Veridium VRDM is presently at 0.053 volume 11,682,050 Inesq INSQ is presently at 0.0016 volume 113,223,662 Admittedly these are all basically penny stocks, but they are also just about the only pure bioenergy public plays in the US, especially if you want to avoid foodstock as feedstock. r