Viaspace, Inc. (VSPC)

[Ceray67]

Ok. I found an article from 2009 which tells me why Dr. K. is not working in the US as much as in other country's.

Pardon my posting skills are sloppy. I am kind of new to posting to forums and would like to make this link shorter. http://www.dtnprogressivefarmer.com/dtnag/view/ag/printablePage.do?ID=NEWS_PRINTABLE_PAGE&bypassCache=true&pageLayout=v4&vendorReference=eddd1310-50bf-4ee7-adbd-597512891e22__1258997346270&articleTitle=Viaspace+Cultivating+High-Biomass+Grass&editionName=DTNAgFreeSiteOnline

Stated the following points.
"Kukkonen said because the U.S. didn't sign the Kyoto protocol, U.S. power plants aren't required to use biomass, so there's little or no U.S. market although several states have renewable energy requirements prompting coal plants to burn biomass.

In China, however, he said the government not only buys power from biomass power plants, but it provides subsidies for the production of that power.

Viaspace is banking on the U.S. government to head in the same direction.

"We think it's a matter of time," Kukkonen said. "We believe it's going to be big, and we want to be positioned when it happens. Most (U.S.) utilities are not happy to have offtake agreements with biomass companies."

Viaspace is working with DP Cleantech, which has built 19 biomass power plants in China."

AND
"King Grass could be grown from May to November in the cooler regions of the Corn Belt. However, Kukkonen said it would require replanting every year because the colder climate would kill the plant. In warmer climates, the plant is perennial, although Kukkonen recommends replanting every seven or eight years. If Viaspace makes an entry into the U.S. at some point, he said it would be in the South and Southeast where sugarcane is grown."

Anyway these were two questions I had and were answered by this article..