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To: Charles A. King who wrote (9510)	6/11/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: Charles A. King	Respond to of 13091

Y'all know how I am always doing arithmetic. I have a little RNTK stock. RNTK is a gas-to-liquids company that can process refinery bottoms and make extremely clean diesel. They built a plant for R&D purposes which they operated for a short time and then sent to India where it will make wax. A way of discussing and comparing the cost of these gas-to-liquids plants produced by competing companies is to use the calculation of the capital cost to produce a barrel of diesel per day. The RNTK R&D plant cost more than $70,000 per bpd but that was because it was a stand-alone R&D setup while the business plan calls for their design to be attached to a refinery that will gasify the input to the RNTK plant. A goal of competitors as well as RNTK is to get the cost below $30,000 per bpd. Comparing this technology to GRNO's plant is like comparing apples to oranges because GRNO's feedstock is already partly refined while RNTK's feedstock is unrefined, heavy stuff. But just to see whether RNTK could compete with GRNO to process crankcase oil, even in the vicinity of a refinery, I calculated the barrel per day cost of the Model 1000 to compare it to the $30,000 per bpd number that the GTL industry shoots for. $2,500,000 X 42 gallons per barrel / 1,000 gallons per hour / 24 hours per day = $4,375 per bpd Charles

To: Charles A. King who wrote (9510)	6/11/1998 2:42:00 PM
From: John Chylek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13091

Charles, your post reminded me of "The Second Coming" by Yeats. The first stanza: Turning and turning in a widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best last all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. .....and this by Auden All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. John