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Interesting moves in the last few days, but I don't see any public information to support this trend. It would be nice for management at CLME (CBEC) to post some information or potential target dates (quarters) for some of the next decision milestones:
Fermentation enzyme viability
Site planning
Ground breaking
Harvest complete
Building complete
Plant commissioned (switch on)
2007 production yield numbers.
...
Next steps? Is there a plan for plant ramp-up? Will contracts be secured for 08 agricultural partners?
Jaratca, I have talked to tom bowers about 8 months ago with a few small questions I had. Will you take the time to call the company and ask him those questions and report it back to us?
"A better question would be, when will this plant be started???"
Even better questions would be "When will the pre air-quality permit be granted, when will CBEC then submit the application for the actual air quality permit, when will the Colusa branch of the Air Resources board grant the permit, when will a building permit be applied for, and when will it be granted. There is a 4 month lag between the time the pre-air quality permit is granted and when the actual air quality permit can be granted. Blueprints for a job of this size (includes settling ponds, massive water diversion and filtering) could possibly be ram-rodded through the Colusa County building department in a month or two. Who knows? These are the first questions I'd like answered, and then I have a few dozen more.
If any of my questions re the air permits have been addressed, please update me. Thanks.
A better question would be, when will this plant be started???
Does anybody know exactly when we are going to start producing the cellulose ethanol, that is when is the plant going to be finished and selling the cellulose ethanol?
Here's the link to the full article in the August issue of Ethanol Producer Magazine.
Very interesting.
http://ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=3175&q=&page=all
Interesting balanced article regarding CLME's biochem.
http://lignin.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/cellulosic-ethanol-from-rice-straw-plant-being-built-in-calif....
Let's hope that evolution has equipped the elephant with a hemi(cellulose) power plant - see CLME website.
I hear ya. I think this is going to go under the radar until the ground-breaking. I like that though. I can pick up more shares. :)
A few discussion points for CLME:
1. Trading volume is low despite rise.
2. Preparing for harvest ok, but no news on groundbreaking for plant.
3. No news back from fermentation trials.
I'm invested, so fingers crossed.
I'm so glad I was able to get back in on this. I see big board with this, within 2 years. I'm going to keep adding this stock.
Knocking on .20, ohhhhh I ohhhhh I ohh.
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Tuopai elected as China Top Brand
01-09-2007
Recently, the award ceremony of 2006 China Top Brands was held in Hongkong. Tuopai was elected as China Top 10 Brand. Mr Robert A. Mundell, "Father of Euro" and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics awarded the prize to Tuopai.
In June 2006, the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) recognized Tuopai brand of Sichuan Tuopai Group Co. Ltd as China Well-known Trademark. Now, as a popular brand with good reputation, the value of Tuopai brand has increased greatly after awarding the laurel.
Edited and translated by IPR in China
(Source: Southwest Business News)
Gearing Up For Harvest!
A few new pics on the website.
agreed, no respect for intellectual property in China, worlds largest producer of counterfeit products.
I hope they didn't give the chinese too much info on how this great technology works. They have a lot of rice over there, and a big problem with using corn to make ethanol
Ban on use of corn for ethanol lauded
By Le Tian (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-06-22 06:47
China's policy not to use basic food crops, especially corn, to make biofuel as a substitute for petroleum is a "sound decision", a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) official said yesterday.
"Such a decision by such an important world player as China is likely to accelerate the second-generation technology for production of ethanol fuel from non-food crops - through conversion of biomass," Abdolreza Abbassian, Commodity Analyst and Secretary of FAO's Intergovernmental Group for Grains, told China Daily.
The UN food body official's remarks came shortly after China imposed a moratorium on projects making ethanol fuel from corn and other basic food crops. The importance of corn in China's food economy has prompted the government to ask companies to switch to non-basic food products such as cassava, sweet potato and cellulose to make ethanol fuel.
"Food-based ethanol fuel will not be the direction for China," said Xu Dingming, vice-director of the Office of the National Energy Leading Group, at a seminar on China's ethanol fuel development in Beijing on Saturday.
China is promoting ethanol fuel to reduce its reliance on imported oil. But it worries that the rising demand for raw materials for ethanol could push up food prices and reduce the area of farmland growing food crops.
Despite a bumper crop in China last year, corn prices have risen almost 30 percent over the past nine months on the Dalian Commodities Exchange. The increase in corn prices in turn pushed up the costs of fodder and meat, particularly pork.
The global supply and demand situation for cereals in 2007-08 is expected to remain tight and prices will be high, Abbassian said.
"As long as petroleum prices remain as high as they are, and without any major technological breakthrough in conversion of biomass, this trend is likely to continue for some years to come," he said.
While forecasts say cereal production across the world is likely to recover and then climb to a record, world demand for cereals is also forecast to rise sharply, Abbassian said. "This strong demand is partly driven by a rapid increase in the use of corn for making ethanol fuel, most of which is in the US."
In five years from now, almost a third of the US corn crop will be used to make ethanol fuel to meet the Energy Department's target of 11.2 billion gallons by 2012, a report released by the USGovernment Accountability Office warned last week.
"Using more corn to produce fuel is likely to push up corn prices further, potentially influencing livestock feed markets and meat prices," the report said.
The US is the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of corn. For this reason, the US' corn export prices are considered the world's best price indicator for coarse grains in general and for corn in particular.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, about 86 million tons of corns could be used to make ethanol fuel between 2007 and 2008.
"The volume of domestic corn destined for ethanol will exceed the total corn exports from the US," Abbassian said.
The increase in the use of corn to make ethanol fuel is among the leading factors that have pushed up its price in the international market, he said.
Since the US uses more of its domestic corn to make ethanol fuel, the food and export sectors are left to shoulder the burden of high prices, Abbassian said.
It's only a matter of time before the first biorefinery is built and this company takes off. imho
Anyone klnow where in the world we can get some rice?
The Chinese delegation´s visit to Colusa validated a conversation I had with Tom Bowers earlier this year,and imo is a significant development.
futrcash
8/8/2007 9:59:00 AM Email this article • Print this article
The delegation formed after Bowers and CBEC Field Operations Manager Rick Nannen visited China in March and presented the CBEC project.
Chinese delegation visits Colusa, explores Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation future
For nearly six years, Tom Bowers of Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation [CBEC] has worked toward building a bio-refinery in Colusa County.
As Bowers and his team have progressed, the company has gained attention in the United States, and internationally. Now, China is showing an interest in CBEC by sending a delegation to meet with CBEC in Colusa County.
CBEC has developed business relationships with governmental agencies in Egypt, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina as well as developing contacts with capable private enterprise candidates in Greece, Indonesia, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Korea.
Last week, Bowers and CDEC hosted the delegation from China.
Sichuan Tuopai Group Chairman, Assistant Chairman, Central Plant Manager, Master Senior Engineer, Secretary to the Chairman, and the County Executive for Shehong County, Sichuan Province, China, and the Chief of the Regional Economy Development Division, Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission were among the delegation representing China on the tour here.
"Each of these individuals has an abiding interest to establish a renewable energy infrastructure within their province and the Central Government has a similar intention for the Chinese nation," said Bowers. "Sichuan is a major agricultural production area in Western China."
Bowers explained earlier this week that the Chinese delegation came to Colusa for a three-day visit to discuss in detail the proprietary technologies primarily for processing waste rice straw to fuel ethanol and silica sodium oxide.
Bowers hosted the initial meeting prior to the tour at the Colusa County Business & Visitors Center conference room.
"We were pleased that we had the opportunity to rent the conference room at the Colusa County Business & Visitors Center for this meeting," said Bowers. It is very fortunate that such a nice facility is available," he added.
The delegation formed after Bowers and CBEC Field Operations Manager Rick Nannen visited China in March and presented the CBEC project.
Sichuan Tuopai Group Company LTD is a vested and well-established ethanol producer located in SheHong County where it is the largest employer [7,000 factory employees], and the largest taxpayer.
Bower commented that the Tuopai ethanol is primarily made from both wheat and corn, with the alcohol used to fortify Chinese wines and liquors.
Negotiations with Tuopai have centered around an investment in CBEC, a development of an identical bio-refinery to the Colusa Biomass Bio-refinery in SheHong, and further developing multiple additional bio-refineries within China.
"At this point, the business model is for CBEC to joint venture with Tuopai in the development of the waste rice straw to ethanol and silica sodium oxide markets within China," said Bowers.
According to Bowers, CBEC has developed the pre-processing techniques both mechanical and chemical, to separate into four basic chemical compounds from its preferred feed stock waste rice straw. "The four compounds; cellulose, hemicelluloses, silica, and lignin all have demonstrable value in the production of cellulosic ethanol from organic material," said Bowers.
The intellectual property that the entity CBEC is based on is US Patent 5,735,916 issued in 1997. CBEC owns the patent and all rights. An extract of this patent may be viewed at www.colusabiomass.com.
Bowers said CBEC would build its initial bio-refinery in Colusa County, with an annual capacity of 12,500,000 gallons refined from 135,000 tons of rice straw. He added that the corporate business model is based on building an operating eleven bio-refineries by close of 2012. "All of these bio-refineries will be identical in design, type of feed stock used, and output," he said.
Bowers said that CBEC is most honored to have the Chinese delegation travel to Colusa County. "The Chinese do not generally travel to foreign nations, and it is totally unprecedented that they would come to Colusa County to meet with Bowers and CBEC although the factory has not yet been built here.
They [the Chinese delegation] are in the ethanol business, and although there are not yet towers of stainless steel or pipes to show that we are producing ethanol, they came for the technology that we are able to share with them," said Bowers.
Bowers later commented that he has always felt that the opportunity to move forward with the project would come to him.
Now it appears that it has. "Although the U.S. Government has not acknowledged the economic and environmentally sound process we have presented with CBEC, it has now been recognized by the world's largest rice producer," he said.
"What we intended for Colusa County and an expansion into the state has now gained the interest of countries outside of the United States," said Bower.
Bowers said no final agreements have been struck with the Chinese delegation, but that the gesture of the visit, which in itself was outside of the country's norm, was an encouragement to CBEC.
Although the group traveled with an interpreter, each individual spent time asking questions of Bowers.
Bowers commented on the intensity of the visit, and the eagerness of the Chinese delegation to learn about the CBEC process. "They were here to listen, and to ask questions," he said.
Bowers included a brief summary of the highlights of the CBEC process as:
•High ethanol yield per ton of feed stock [94 gallons].
•Low cost of feedstock [waste straw].
•Feed stock most plentiful in world [800,000,000 tons annually].
•Low production costs of ethanol.
•Two income streams: ethanol and silica sodium oxide.
•Transportation fuels market worldwide expanding ahead of production.
•No feed stock taken from food stream, all are Ag wastes and residues.
PR on China contacts:
COLUSA, Calif., Aug 09, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Colusa Biomass Energy
Corporation (Pink Sheets:CLME) today announced it has attracted international
and national attention for its innovative process to make clean energy, ethanol
and industrial grade silica from waste rice straw, the world's most plentiful
agricultural waste. Last week, Colusa Biomass hosted a Chinese delegation made
up of ethanol production company executives, county executives and rural
economic development officers from western China's agricultural region.
"These Chinese leaders want to build renewable energy production in their
province and the Chinese Government has made it a priority," said Tom Bowers,
Colusa Biomass CEO. These folks live and work in a major agricultural production
area in western China that has great rice straw ethanol potential. The Chinese
delegation visited Colusa for three days to explore Colusa Biomass' proprietary
technologies to turn waste rice straw into fuel ethanol.
The delegation was in response to Bowers and CBEC Field Operations Manager Rick
Nannen visiting China in March. "At this point, we are exploring the prospects
of a strategic alliance with a China-based ethanol production compan! y to con vert
waste rice straw to ethanol and silica sodium oxide for markets in China," said
Bowers.
China, India, Indonesia and Bangladesh are the largest rice producing nations in
the world and are rapidly growing economies with large fuel imports, hence a
clear need to replace high-priced fossil fuel imports.
About Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation: Colusa Biomass Energy is currently
raising money to build its first bio-refinery in Colusa County. The facility
will have an annual capacity to produce 12.5 million gallons of ethanol from
approximately 135,000 tons of waste rice straw. The process is based on patented
and proprietary technologies that convert waste biomass into ethanol for use in
transportation fuels. It is important to note that the process takes nothing
from the food stream but only consumes renewable cellulosic waste biomass. The
business model anticipates 11 such bio-refineries in the US. Additional
information can be obtained at the website: www.colusabiomass.com.
Safe Harbor: This release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 27E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. Statements contained in this release that are not
historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Investors are
cautioned that forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. Actual
performance and results may differ materially from the projected or suggested
herein due to certain risks and uncertainties including, without limitation,
ability to obtain financing and regulatory and shareholder approval for
anticipated actions.
SOURCE: Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation
The salient point with respect to this company remains...
that unlike so many others in its sector,it is a real company with publicly verifiable,real prospects!
futrcash
Great article thx for the link!
The Rumplestiltskin of Rice Straw
http://ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=3175
great article on CLME...
Another reason might be that a energy newletter tracked it down and reported on it. The volumne has been simular to other pennies that start to move after a newletter report.
The newsletters create their own movement by finding a stock making a hefty purchase and then reporting on to thier members. Volume goes up, price goes up, and the newletter makes some cash.
Stansbury Newsletter and Agora work this way.
Klemons
I think it's moving up simply because we are getting close to the date when the permits will hopefully be granted and the construction of the biorefinery will begin. It's a risky investment but if Tom succeeds then this stock will be worth a lot more than .17 cents per share. jmho
Can anybody give a hypothesis of why this company is moving up so quickly?
J
Whee! nice pop today. I have a little bit at .03 and just bought more today at .14 and it closed today at .17
shall we start a pool to quess when it hits 1.00?
Aug 15 2008 is my guess :)
klemons
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You may regret selling at .12. You may not see it again, especially if any PR is issued. Holding here. This is a long term investement and patience could be rewarded. I am in at an average of .06
I bought a lot of shares in the .03 - .04 range and haven't sold any yet. There is an enormous amount of potential in this field. The next few months will be very interesting to say the least.
yep,patiently waiting here.
It might just be the beginning! A pr concerning permits in the next couple of weeks would send this stock into orbit. jmho
I think the reason for the latest jump yesterday was because Tom, posted the same message that I posted on here yesterday from the e-mail that he sent me on the ColusaBiomass web-site.
Hopefully something good coming.
TA--Last time we pierced upper BB (2/12/07 or thereabouts), price went from .055 to .11 before retracing a bit. Hmmmmmm. PR on permits pending?
its hilarious, up to 12.5 then a 3000 share wack down to .08
I will find a way to beat these MM's If it the last thing i do.
Good to see a little movement today. Any thoughts on what is causing it? Good luck everyone.
thanks for the update. it's been pretty quiet around here lately. the email refers to the lease, but no mention of the permits.
I just received this e-mail from Tom Bowers today 07/13/07
Thanks for the email.
Here's a brief note on what's going on: We have prepared production
quality substrate (from rice straw in our Colusa lab) in consultation
with our chemical engineering firm and sent same to enzyme
manufacturers for testing in real time conditions using their latest
offerings; we have consulted with the leading European yeast
manufacturing company regarding our hemicellulose and cellulose
substrate for reduction to 5C and 6C sugars for their proprietary
yeasts (cultivated from bacterium derived from elephant digestive
systems organisms) and we will be sending our Colusa Biomass process
prepared sugars for their real time tests within the week. It has
taken almost 18 months to coordinate these efforts with the scientists
at these firms. As you might imagine, their time is in great demand
and we're delighted to be in the queue with them at present.
We are paralleling development of our proprietary membranes for our
reverse osmosis ultra filtration system to extract the silica sodium
oxide and lignin from the hemicellulose - cellulose substrate prior to
hydrolyzation and fermentation. We are focused on these items as they
represent the final technical hurdles to scaling the Colusa Biomass
rtechnologies to full commercial scale.
These are some of what's happening on the inside. We have secured the
acreage for our bio-refinery site in the Colusa Industrial Park and
await the fianl lease form.
Please hang on as we believe that we're a great bet for the renewable
fuels industry.
Tom Bowers
No doubt about that. Have a good one.
This one is doing just fine all on her own... nice low floater...
Think she will heat back up on the fall? Of course, I have seen pretty good action today.
Now is the time to be grabbing all these little stocks before the penny market heats back up again...
i still don't have a bunch.... but I have more than the 316 I had a few weeks ago
it is holding very well, but I got out when they said the the plant would not open until next year...
Something appears to be cooking though...
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