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I am thinking along the same lines as you with the colleges most likely getting the desktop model. With Gen 2 parts on the way and a 6000sq ft Gen 2 PBR going up at SA and a PBR to be up in SC by mid Feb, I don't know why they would need desktop models for any type of demonstration purposes.
That being said, I wonder if any of the desktops will be setup for the Cold Weather Solution. I would also be very interested in hearing who is getting these to see what they've done so far in green tech education.
University of Kansas is doing some wonderful things in green energy, for example.
31 days later.
Anyone who sold on the 4th of December can buy back today and realize losses on their return.
30 days +1 is the rule we tell our clients.
Link is here for news:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/BioCentric-Energy-Holdings-iw-4139978351.html?x=0&.v=1
BioCentric Energy Holdings, Inc. CEO New Year Corporate Update
Press Release Source: BioCentric Energy Holdings, Inc. On Monday January 4, 2010, 10:04 am
SANTA ANA, CA--(Marketwire - 01/04/10) - BioCentric Energy Holdings, Inc. (Pinksheets:BEHL - News) today announced the following corporate updates for Shareholders and Investors.
Santa Ana, California Corporate HQ Location
After numerous attempts to purchase the property in San Juan Capistrano, it became evident the Institutional owners of the property had their own agenda which was contrary to our need and requirements.
The City of Huntington Beach, our first relocation choice, provided an unprecedented number of additional roadblocks to our goals which made it impossible for BEHL to accomplish our goals in the necessary timelines. Unfortunately, considerable time and expenses were allocated which did not achieve the desired results.
BioCentric has moved into our new HQ location comprising of 6400 sq ft of administrative and laboratory space at: 2400 South Garnsey Street, 2nd Floor, in Santa Ana, California. Ground preparations have been completed for the next generation of 6000 sq ft of the BioCentric Algae Pro-Photobioreactor onsite. Additional areas are also in the process of being prepped for R & D of the next generation Algae Pro Photobioreactors.
Death Valley Junction, California
The average temperature at this location in mid-summer is in the region of 115 degrees, surface temperature can and does reach above 140 degrees. It is these factual statistics that, up until now, have provided the roadblock to build our Algae Pro Photobioreactor in Death Valley Junction. Engineering has devised a simplistic approach to provide a low-cost cooling solution -- and on completion of the schematics, a beta unit will be built in Death Valley Junction to further test this solution.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Management is meeting with the decision makers in Las Vegas this week and will announce any progress achieved. The primary issue at this point is the client's ability to deliver the necessary funding as per the agreement negotiated.
RWE, Georgetown, South Carolina
By the end of January 2010, the BEHL Team will be returning to South Carolina to assist the RWE Team in building an acre of the BioCentric Algae Pro Photobioreactor to fulfill the first in-house purchase order of Omega 3. This collaboration is anticipated to be the first of many as the people of RWE have shown a tremendous knowledge base that will benefit BEHL now and into the future.
Lone Star College, Woodlands, Texas
NAA President Barry Cohen has arranged for Lone Star College to provide land, water, and electricity for a test unit of the BioCentric Algae Pro Photobioreactor to be assembled at the College. Once operational, the Photobioreactor will go through a series of verifications to quantify and ascertain exact results which, at the third level of testing, will be independently managed by a third party for unbiased results. Upon completion, the Algae Pro Photobioreactor will have certification published from the National Algae Association.
BEHL advancing to OTCBB
BioCentric CFO Frank Rawson has narrowed the field of SEC Auditors down to three, in the coming weeks BEHL will formally announce the selection of this crucial element in completing our Form 10 to uplist to OTCBB. His target date for completion is February 15th. BioCentric SEC Attorney Kristin Cano has begun the process of completing the Form 10 registration. Ms. Cano's target date for completion is February 20th. Additionally Tom Cleveland has been contracted to author the updated Business Plan for BEHL. The target date for the updated Business Plan completion is February 5th.
Delivery Schedule
As of today, the defined timeline has been agreed upon by both our contracted vendors and in-house personnel:
1) One innoculant "Wall Photobioreactor" is scheduled to be completed by the third week in January; this Photobioreactor will generate sufficient mass to seed the 6000 sq ft in Santa Ana
2) 1200 (sufficient for 4 acres) -- 180 degree "corners" will be shipped to BEHL by the end of this month (the funds for this purchase have already been placed in escrow for delivery)
3) The specialty designed gasket and clamp have been designed and will be shipped to BEHL by the end of this month (the funds for this purchase have already been placed in escrow for delivery)
4) The first mile + of custom tubing will arrive by the third week of this month (the funds for this purchase have already been placed in escrow for delivery)
5) The sensors for the Photobioreactor in Santa Ana are in-house
6) The newly designed harvesting solution will be delivered to Santa Ana by the end of the month (the funds for this purchase have already been placed in escrow for delivery)
7) The anticipated completion build date for the 6000 sq ft in Santa Ana is for the second week in February
8) The company website is being presently updated; anticipated completion date is January 25th.
Projected Sources of Revenue for 2010
1) 18 "Desktop" Continuous Flow Photobioreactors in year 1
2) 24 "Wall Unit" Photobioreactors in year 1
3) 36 "Culturing Systems" in Year 1
4) 20 Acres of Algae Pro Photobioreactors in year 1
5) Management Contract for 20 Acres of Algae Pro Photobioreactors in year 1
6) Commission for the sale of production of 20 Acres of Algae Pro Photobioreactors in year 1
Solutions 28
The final re-write has been completed and the campaign for our international presence is currently being finalized for execution. This helping hand to prosperity for the recipients of our 10-acre algae farming solution can be replicated throughout the world. The quality and quantities can be managed remotely through a satellite link and jobs and high value product can be generated to profit.
Executive Vice President
Monique Barry, our Vice President of Sales and Marketing, has accepted the additional responsibilities as the Executive Vice President of BioCentric Energy. Ms. Barry's attributes and talented grasp of our mission, and the path in which to succeed, make her the perfect candidate.
Here's a great article on market manipulation. Please read this and compare it to what you see in BEHL's chart and board.
http://counterfeitingstock.com/CounterfeitingStock.html
I worked on a project with a metal parts manufacturer who wanted to start a WOFE in China (wholly owned foreign entity). It took three years from the day we began working with the Chinese to signing the final papers to get the operation underway.
Many times we were required to submit multiple copies of the same paperwork to various local, provincial, and country officials because of heavy red tape despite these offices sometimes being located in the same building.
Three years.
Today, he's making more money from his WOFE than the operations here in the US and is looking to expand throughout China.
Patience is a virtue the Chinese respect and demand in their business ventures. Working with foreign governments is a lot different than working with the US government. Projects get put on hold for many different reasons only to be picked up a few months later and expedited through the company.
By nailing down the Santa Ana HQ, a big problem is off of DF's plate and he can concentrate on hiring more staff to lend expertise to the various projects that are being held up with red tape that is uncontrollable by BEHL along with expediting the setup of the Santa Ana Commercial Photobioreactor with BEHL's new and improved UV-resistant tubing (read up on the need for this tubing in PBRs, BEHL may just have another product in the pipe to sell to other PBR makers). Where is that $$$ going to come from? The first orders in the $6,000,000 batch.
Thank you, boss. I posted the article in hopes that the readers would see just what kind of firepower BEHL and the algae industry are up against.
It specifically talks about knowledge that was lost when political manipulation of BEHL's field occurred. And it was during Carter's time. The algae to fuel industry has been manipulated and under fire for over 30 years. That period of manipulation is the same amount of time BEHL's research team has been involved in algae research.
I especially enjoyed the talk about how the decrease and vanishing of funding is directly tied into the proliferation of ethanol-based fuels. Ethanol comes from corn and soybeans as examples of two inputs. Anyone who receives any type of government subsidy to grow these crops has a vested interest in seeing BEHL fail. And why are govt. subsidies needed for corn and soybean based fuels? Because complex feedstocks will never be an economically feasible replacement for oil fuels.
I hope this gives investors here an idea of why you see what is occurring in this stock from forces (not good vs evil like some put it, but rather established industry vs. an infant industry looking for a bite of their pie) that would like the status quo to be maintained. In addition, you have the commonly accepted belief amongst a number of traders and investors that 98% of pinks fail, adding more pressure against BEHL's success today.
How Algal Biofuels Lost a Decade in the Race to Replace Oil
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/the-lost-decade-of-algal-biofuel/
For nearly 20 years, a government laboratory built a living, respiring library of carefully collected organisms in search of something that could grow quickly while producing something precious: oil.
But now that collection has largely been lost.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientists found and isolated around 3,000 species algae from construction ditches, seasonal desert ponds and briny mashes across the country in a major bioprospecting effort to find the best organisms to convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into fuel for cars.
Despite meager funding, the Aquatic Species Program (.pdf), initiated under President Jimmy Carter, laid the scientific foundation for making diesel-like fuel from the fat that microscopic algae accumulate in their cells. Fifty-one varieties were carefully characterized as potential high-value strains, but fewer than half of those remain.
“Just when they started to succeed is when the plug got pulled,” said phycologist Jeff Johansen of John Carroll University, who collected algal strains for the program in the 1980s. “We were growing them in ponds and we were going to grow enough to have them made into a diesel fuel.”
The program was part of the huge investment that Jimmy Carter made into alternative energy in the late 1970s. All kinds of research avenues were explored, but when the funding shriveled during later years, knowledge, experts and know-how were lost. The setback highlights the problems created by inconsistent funding for energy research. Now, President Obama has trumpeted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus package, as the largest increase in scientific research funding in history. Scientists roundly applauded the billions of dollars that went into energy research, development and deployment. But what about when the stimulus money runs out in two years?
“One caution is that much of this has been funded with the stimulus package,” said Ernie Moniz at a Google-hosted panel on energy in late November. “So, we’re going to have to see what happens after these next two years, because what we need is not a drop, but a further increase in R&D commensurate with the task at hand.”
And that’s exactly what didn’t happen in the last big energy R&D push.
From organism to oil
Turning pond scum into oil isn’t easy, but as a hypothetical energy system, it’s elegant. The theory is that algae will produce more burnable fuel on less land than regular crops, perhaps something like a thousand gallons of oil per acre instead of a few dozen from conventional plants. The food-versus-fuel debates that plague biofuels like corn-based ethanol would disappear. Plus, it’s possible the algae could be engineered to make high-energy fuels suitable even for airplanes. It’s these possibilities that sold the Carter administration’s energy officials.
Phycologists, the people who study algae, discovered that under certain circumstances, some algae start cranking out far more oil than normal. Restrict their nutrients, and for some reason they start producing lots of oil. But they also stop growing. If the scientists could keep the algae multiplying and pull the “lipid trigger” anyway, they’d be in fat city. But their understanding of the biology was incomplete, and the task wasn’t easy. It would take some time and effort to know if and when their the process would become cheap enough to compete with crude.
Another challenge was getting the algae to keep growing without injecting a lot of energy into the system. They installed large open ponds near Roswell, New Mexico, and began trying to produce tiny algae at oil tanker scales. It worked, but there were problems. Again, it would take some time and effort to know if and when everything would work together.
The program did not get time or the money to find out. By the time Bill Clinton took office, funding for the program had dwindled to a trickle, and in 1996, the Department of Energy abandoned the program to focus all its biofuel efforts on ethanol. A dark decade fell upon the field of algal biofuel. There wasn’t even money available to take care of the algal collection that had been so painstakingly created.
In an effort to salvage some of the science, a few hundred strains of algae were sent to the University of Hawaii, but the refuge proved less than ideal. When a National Science Foundation grant ran out in 2004, it became difficult to continue the laborious work of maintaining the collection. The organisms sit in rows of test tubes living and reproducing. Every two months, they have to be transferred, “passaged,” to a new nutrient-rich tube. Random genetic mutations can enter a population and lead to permanent genetic changes. The algae can die.
It’s not exactly clear how it happened, but a review released earlier this year found that more than half the genetic legacy (.pdf) of the program had been lost. Only 23 of the 51 strains that were extensively studied during the program remain alive and extant. The losses to the rest of the algal cultures in the collection have been even worse.
“The really bloody shame is that of those 3,000, there are maybe 100 to 150 strains that remain at the University of Hawaii,” said Al Darzins, who heads up the resurgent algal biofuels research program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
The way R&D funding has been used in the United States has hurt the efficiency of the research. Programs that started during the late ’70s and early ’80s were stopped in the years of low energy prices that followed. Despite the best efforts of cash-strapped researchers, not everything can be preserved and recovered, frozen cryogenically while awaiting fresh funding.
Algae comes back
While the valuable NREL archive of algae biodiversity languished in a Hawaii basement, the world around it changed. Genetic and genomic research and understanding skyrocketed. Oil demand grew, particularly in massive developing countries like China, India and Indonesia. Oil usage outpaced new oil field finds. Interest in algae-based biofuels exploded. Venture capital and corporate money flowed back into the field. On January 2, 2008, oil hit $100 a barrel for the first time. Despite some ups-and-downs, the price of oil remains substantially higher than it was through much of the 1990s. As a result, more than 50 companies are now at work on some aspect of biofuel production from algae.
In the latest move, Exxon Mobil decided to invest $600 million into a joint venture with Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics for research into next-gen algal fuels.
Over the past few years, Darzins has revived the program at NREL. They’ve been hard at work on the biology of microalgae. Graduate student Lee Elliott of the Colorado School of Mines has collected 500 new species in just the last year and a half. To a certain extent, the problems of maintaining a microorganismal library have been solved. Cryogenic freezing techniques were developed at the University of Texas UTEX Culture Collection of Algae. The NREL team has been able to freeze and then revive 91 percent of their microorganisms.
Despite the lost decade, algal oil makers are optimistic that they are about to ride a steep cost curve down to much, much cheaper biofuel. As they apply new biological knowledge and optimize growing algae, the cost will drop. And as they capture economies of scale, the costs will drop again. In the best-case scenario, when all is said and done, algal biofuel could cost $50 per barrel. But that won’t happen anytime soon, and it could take a decade.
Or maybe it will remain expensive for a long, long time. There are some legitimate reasons to be skeptical of algal biofuel’s potential for large-scale oil production.
So far, nobody has been able to make fuel from algae for a cost anywhere close to cheap, let alone competitive. Some researchers question whether any kind of energy-conversion process based on photosynthesis will ever play a major role in our transportation energy system. One life-cycle analysis found algal biofuels would not have a positive energy balance, in other words, you’d have to put more energy in than you would get out. The prominent startup GreenFuel, which grew out of Harvard and MIT research, went bust earlier this year after blowing through $70 million.
We just don’t know how well algal biofuel production might work. It’s true that the 18 years of research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory yielded a lot of knowledge, but it resulted in nothing resembling a commercial product or process.
“The cultivation of microalgae for production of biofuels generally, and algal oils specifically, is not a near-term commercial prospect,” John Benemann, an algae scientist who worked on the final report of the Aquatic Species Program, wrote in an e-mail to Wired.com. “Larger-scale algal biofuels production still requires considerable, long-term R&D.”
So many questions, so little time
Just $25 million was invested over the life of the Aquatic Species Program, which is just 5.5 percent of the total money the DOE dedicated to biofuels over that time. Adjusted for inflation, the program’s total budget in today’s dollars was less than $100 million. To put this tiny number in oil industry context, Exxon Mobil made $142 million in profit each day of 2008.
“They came up with this idea and in four years, they almost demonstrated the technological feasibility, and then the funding fell out,” said Johansen, the phycologist who collected algae for the program. “The maximum of funding was about $4 million a year. When I left, it was $800,000 a year. Now, there is all this biofuel work going on, and they are all going back to that public domain research. It kind of drives me crazy.”
The neglect of the Aquatic Species Program and subsequent resurgence of algal biofuel interest is one of many examples that show that the lack of coherent, consistent energy policy has left the world’s most oil-dependent nation scrambling in times of crisis.
Johansen even went so far as to say that “if the Reagan and Bush administrations had not ended” the growth of the algal biofuels program, our country would have algal biofuels now.
Even under far less optimistic scenarios, if the Aquatic Species Program had been fully funded from its start until now, there is no question that we’d know a lot more about the potential, and limitations, of algal biofuels.
Instead, we’re left with some lessons learned, a partially missing library of microorganisms, and a lot of questions that investors and entrepreneurs want answered before the next oil price spike.
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Take all of your 'evidence' to a lawyer. If you are so positive you have been scammed and people belong in jail like Dennis, Dennis and Dale, any lawyer would worth his weight in salt would be on this like green on algae.
Including the scambusters here. Run it by them if you are looking for free advice. But you get what pay for.
Every single person who screams scam has yet to see an attorney. What are you waiting for?
If you'd like to discuss that issue with Brother Barry, call him at the CCAJ HQ's.
He's still trying to finalize an LOI with WTWO that is having a lot of trouble coming to fruition.
Or ask those holders if Brother Barry talked his Big Money Investors into propping up the PPS there.
LOL...
NASA Uses Algae To Turn Sewage To Fuel
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20091216/sc_space/nasausesalgaetoturnsewageintofuel
NASA Uses Algae to Turn Sewage Into Fuel
space.com – Wed Dec 16, 9:46 am ET
NASA may concern itself largely with space exploration, but it also wants to keep Earth on a steady course in the face of rising energy costs and climate change. Now the U.S. space agency has thrown its weight behind a clever method of growing algae in wastewater for the purpose of making biofuel.
The OMEGA system consists of algae grown in flexible plastic bags floating offshore, where cities typically dump their wastewater. Oil-producing freshwater algae would naturally clean the wastewater by feeding on nutrients in the sewage. The cleansed freshwater could then release into the ocean through forward-osmosis membranes in the sides of the plastic bags.
"You're concentrating nutrients and releasing extremely clean water into the ocean," said Jonathan Trent, a bioengineer at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The forward-osmosis membranes only release fresh water into the ocean, and don't permit salty water to contaminate the bags.
Trent envisions harvesting the algae with barges every ten days, and then flushing the plastic bags with salt water to clean out any freshwater algae that might foul the sides of the bags or the forward-osmosis membranes. The algae would be turned into fuel in a manner similar to using corn to make ethanol.
Municipal wastewater pumped into the bags would then start the cycle all over again.
Such a process would mainly rely on the energy of the ocean waves to mix the algae, as well as sunlight and carbon dioxide. The offshore locations and the wide oceans would also have more than enough room to grow massive amounts of algae needed to produce biofuels for an energy-hungry world.
Algae for a greener economy
Many experts see algae as the biofuel source of the future for several reasons. Algae's biofuel yield could range from 1,000-4,000 gallons per acre each year, compared to just hundreds of gallons per acre annually from oil palm, sunflower and soybeans, according to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report. The DOE added that algae alone could theoretically take care of transportation fuel demands for the entire United States.
That early promise has led the DOE to invest in algae-focused ventures through its new ARPA-E agency, and to put together a report titled the "National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap."
Some private companies have tried growing algae in vats or through other methods on land. But Trent decided to take advantage of the ocean's natural waves and open spaces. His initial investigation drew support through a grant from the philanthropic arm of Google, the U.S. Internet search giant.
"This would ultimately cover acres and acres of ocean," Trent told SPACE.com. He noted that each plastic bag might take up as much as a quarter of an acre. The millions of acres required to meet U.S. transportation fuel needs would not take the form of one huge ocean patch, but would instead spread across many locations off the U.S. coasts.
The basic technologies behind the plastic bags and forward-osmosis membranes are well tested, but Trent expects to spend more time ensuring that the system can work efficiently and without problems. For instance, plastics have a known weakness to ultraviolet rays from the sun, and so long exposure might represent an issue.
Still, Trent wants to eventually make the plastic bags biodegradable. A future source of such biodegradable plastics might even come from algae-derived oil.
Fuel for the world
Both NASA and the California Energy Commission have helped fund the latest round of Trent's work, in which he aims to get a pilot demonstration up and running. The first experiments might start in closed ponds, and then spread to California offshore locations near San Francisco and Santa Cruz.
Trent acknowledges that challenges remain in figuring out the right algae strains, and in engineering the system to make algae biofuels a cost-effective alternative to existing fossil fuels. In fact, biofuels currently represent one of the least lucrative possibilities from growing algae — converting algae into animal food, fertilizer and cosmetics represents just a few of the more profitable ventures.
Still, the NASA bioengineer hopes that algae biofuels can eventually help satiate rising energy demands, and cut back on greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels that contribute to climate change. The fact that the OMEGA process would clean up wastewater and help sequester carbon dioxide doesn't hurt, either.
A U.S. company, Algae Systems of Carson City, Nev., has already licensed the NASA tech, and plans to deploy its own algae bioreactors somewhere off the coast of Tampa Bay, Florida. Trent would like to see the technology spread among companies as an open-source solution.
"I don't want to see any one company that owns the technology," Trent said. He has already begun discussing his work with international delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark.
One possible future plan would combine the algae-growth system with a gigantic offshore wind farm being built by Germany, Sweden and Denmark. Wind power could then provide lights to keep algae growing underwater and during the nighttime hours — a fitting vision for the sustainable future of spaceship Earth.
Perfect timing on updating the merger to JV status.
A lot of people on vacation, no panicking from fragile shareholders.
I'm expecting tax loss sellers who want back in to get back in around the 7th to the 9th and continue buying through the 15th.
There was an increase in volume leading into the 9th that has tapered off dramatically now.
IMO, of course.
Don't underestimate the impact of OPEC and Russia's struggles with it's former states to move that NatGas.
In addition, there will continue to be a significant increase in the number of cars in China putting further demand strains on oil production.
How will the Saudi or Iraqi governments run on $30 bbl oil when they are used to the prices now? Some oil rich Arab states are experiencing the same economic hardship other countries are. They will look to oil to bail them out.
A lot of unknowns to predict $30 bbl oil in the near future.
Potatoes and Algae Replace Oil in US Company's Plastics
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091221/sc_afp/usenvironmentpollutionoilplastics_20091221115216
HAWTHORNE, California (AFP) – Frederic Scheer is biding his time, convinced that by 2013 the price of oil will be so high that his bio-plastics, made from vegetables and plants, will be highly marketable.
Scheer, 55, is the owner of Cereplast, a company that designs and makes sustainable plastics from starches found in tapioca, corn, wheat and potatoes.
He has believed for the past 20 years that the price of oil will eventually make petroleum-based plastics obsolete and clear the way for his alternative.
"The tipping point for us is 95 dollars a barrel," he said. At that price "our product becomes cheaper" than traditional plastic.
"The day where we hit 95 dollars a barrel I think all of a sudden you're going to see bio-plastics basically explode," he said.
According to Scheer, once oil prices are consistently that high, which he expects to be the case around 2013, major chemical companies like Dupont and BASF will have no choice but to join him in bio-plastics.
By 2020, he expects the US market for the plastics to be worth 10 billion dollars, up from its current value of about a billion dollars.
The world market for traditional oil-based plastics is worth 2,500 billion dollars.
Cereplast, which has 25 employees in California and in Indiana, has accumulated a series of patents for the technology it uses to create the bio-plastics.
With annual sales of five million dollars, Cereplast manufactures resins that biodegrade naturally within three months for use in products including cups, plastic lids and packaging.
They also produce "hybrid" resins of polypropylene that are stronger and more durable, for use in cars or children's toys.
"In using our resin, we basically inject up to 50 percent agricultural renewable resources... giving them a better carbon footprint," said Scheer.
"Each time you create one kilo of traditional polypropylene, you create 3.15 kilos of carbon dioxide. When we create one kilo of bio-propylene, we create 1.40 kilos of carbon dioxide, so clearly you have a substantial saving with respect to greenhouse gases, creating a much better carbon footprint for the product," he said.
Creating plastics that are biodegradable is key, Scheer says, because just 3.5 percent of polypropylene plastic in the United States gets recycled.
Around 70 percent of all plastic waste "ends up in landfills and stays there a very long time," he said.
Americans go through 110 billion plastic or plastic-covered cups each year, using and discarding what the Food Packaging Institute describes as "astronomical numbers" of disposable containers.
"It takes between 70 to 100 million years to make fossil fuel and you are going to use your cup at Starbucks for 45 minutes max," said Scheer.
But using potatoes and corn to produce billions of tonnes of bio-plastics might not be the most sustainable business plan either, as spikes in food prices in 2008 illustrated.
So Scheer is also looking at algae.
"Algae presents the same kind of physical and thermal property that we find in starches," he said. "We can grow algae extremely fast, in very large quantities, at a very low price."
Cereplast hopes to offer a plastic made with algae for commercial sale by the end of 2010 and is projecting its annual sales will have doubled by then.
The success is bittersweet for Scheer, who was born in Paris but has become known as the one of the "grandfathers" of the bio-plastics industry in the United States, rather than his home country.
"The United States are a land of opportunity for the entrepreneur," he said. "I regret that France didn't give me that kind of opportunity."
That was the purpose of the new UV resistant tubing that BEHL and a SoCal manufacturer developed.
Once completed, it will be submitted to the patent office and the names of all companies that worked on it will be released. That was according to the PR before this.
It depends upon how the merger with RWE was initially viewed by holders and fence sitters.
I for one, find it promising that one of the comemrcial PBRs is going up on the East Coast. It bodes well for the strength of the relationship between the two firms and gives BEHL an additional 'sales display' along with the Santa Anna HQ.
We need word on the harvester.
"They" have been calling news for weeks now.
Two weeks ago it was Brad doesn't answer his phone.
Now it is back to news is coming.
Take it for what is worth.
Disclaimer: I have 1 mill of freebies from the last ride up.
Never assume anything. eom.
As a limit order your broker was required to get the best price for you.
You filled at .0115 because that was the lowest selling point (best ask) your broker could find at that moment.
ETA: You can put in all or nothing orders for a certain volume. But if that volume isn't available at that price, you'll get nothing.
Was it a limit order?
All I'm repeating is what I was told.
TD Ameritrade has not updated the A/S for ENTK. That market cap is wrong. Please see ENTK's ibox for the current A/S.
I haven't heard that but I have heard that ENTK's farms are on hold due to financing on ENTK's end.
I posted on ENTK and got a response last night.
Was wondering if you heard back from DF or Dale on the list of questions that you emailed them.
Thanks.
Do we have a start date for the algae farm construction with the PBR's purchased from BEHL?
Rumour has it that the farms are delayed. Waiting to hear back from Thompson as I left a message earlier today to see if this was true and if there was a reason as to why other than the delay BEHL has had in getting the parts and new UV resistant tubing.
There is a serious failure of former holders to grasp this concept. And then they'll trot out an accusation like Pawson's name appearing on every PR from August even though it is readily verifiable at Yahoo finance or VOD newswire it isn't true.
Then they toss out the great 'do your own dd' to make it seem as if they are in the know about something you aren't.
A page taken very much from a greedy individual's playbook. But they aren't looking for cheap shares. They are looking for affirmation because they feel they have been wronged.
LOL...I think there are a number of people on this board who invested their grocery money as you put it.
I guess I'll wait for Black0 to show up and prove me right.
Seems like that JV partner is having a few problems getting off the ground similar to BEHL.
Could it be that this is just a rough economic time to be a company developing and improving a new technology?
These are the people who had no problem in riding the PSC pump to .155. They chimed in with the next PR will be HUGE & MEATY, while bombarding Fisher with 'why is the PPS going down' not 'how are you building shareholder value for the long term'.
Now they are pissed and looking to blame anyone but the man in the mirror. Unless it is Fisher.
A lot of hate for BEHL on the wow board.
Same posts repeated with no one divulging the facts when called out.
All you get told is do your own DD.
I guess I should be made at Citi for not selling when it spiked a few months ago. I bet it's a scam too.
And on what grounds would there be a lawsuit?
Why do you still hold shares of something you are certain is a scam?
Sometimes it is nice to have those outside opinions grounded in facts.
You present false and misleading information when telling people you sold at 17 cents. You have no credibility to rely upon when presenting your outside opinion because of this.
By sticking around, you are following a stock you claim to be a scam into the abyss.
Best to lurk and laugh in your situation if you ask me.
How were you able to sell BEHL shares at 17 cents when .155 is the high to date?
Could you divulge which broker you used?
I doubt it. If you review the posts, you see he has predicted this as a dead cat bounce for BEHL.
Are you putting it in as a limit order?
If so, your broker is required to get you the best deal then.
This is why I leave some funds sitting in my account with no order placed.
If someone wants to clown around and bring it back down, way back down, I try to pick up some cheapies and stash them away for my niece and nephew's college funds.
Hear that flippers & MMs? I'm taking the food from your plate. Keep feeding me as I am a hungry boy!!!
So you bought back in?
Did you get in early at the low or waiting it out today?
I really don't see how a lot of money can be made from flipping 30K shares.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=41860188
Waiting to flip the cheapies they bought all week long.