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Welcome to Mantra Venture Group
Bridging the gap between innovation and investment
Mantra Venture Group facilitates investment in sustainable, commercially viable technologies.
I will agree with that statement..mantra for 09 and beyond for the u.s and the whole world
Mantra Venture Group facilitates investment in sustainable, commercially viable technologies.
For sure..and watch.Mantra will be the one of the frontrunners imo
T Boone Pickens is big into this wow!!!!Wind Power:read:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/08/pickens.plan/index.html
Mantra is committed to fuel cell technology, but is investigating the wide field of possible applications. While there are fuel cells of all sizes, for all applications and markets, Mantra has identified several special niche fuel cell technologies for commercialization, and is actively engaged in pursuing these opportunities.
Hopefully, the sooner, the better.
One reason for us to use fuel cell technology is so we can be more independat and don't have to rely on other nations.
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At Mantra, we are committed to developing and commercializing technologies that support a greener economy, meeting the needs of the present without compromising the future.
We invite you to explore the opportunities…
It would be awesome. The sooner, the better.
Hopefully the Govt. will stay on top of this.
Think Green. Think Investment. Think opportunity. Think Mantra!
Fuel Cells
Fuel cells are now being recognized for their remarkable potential. Because they can use clean fuels (like Hydrogen gas, methanol, and others), and consume their fuel without combustion, they are clean in operation. The exhaust from hydrogen fuel cells is environmentally desirable, it is water. They are non-polluting and do not add GHGs to the environment. The most advanced models are inherently more efficient than power production based on combustion: they extract more power from their fuels than power plants that rely on burning Fossil Fuels.
Mantra is committed to fuel cell technology, but is investigating the wide field of possible applications. While there are fuel cells of all sizes, for all applications and markets, Mantra has identified several special niche fuel cell technologies for commercialization, and is actively engaged in pursuing these opportunities.
Sounds like good things are coming eventually!
that is all going to change imo..and i hope mantra is in the forefront
this new mini battery tech should be huge for their cell phone project beyond a doubt
Fuel cell technology: Each teaspoon of the fuel can provide 20 times the run time of a battery of the same size. The charging system would likely sell for$100. to $300. with refill cartridges retailing for $1 to$3.
Sounds like a great plan!
I think there will be a lot of different commodities trading on different stock exchanges.
Hopefully this will happen.
Huge incentives for Mantra imo.
Fuel cell technology: fuel cells, in which a tiny amount of fuel flows into a small chip to generate electricity without combustion, would allow useers to skip the wall plug and simply swap out a fuel cartridge to continue using the device, making life easier for us all.
More news on fuel cell project: Laptop, cell phones, and ipod owners tired of having their devices run out of charge after a few hours have been patiently waiting for the next portable power source to arrive. They could potentially power a laptop for days between refills.
Fantastic! Now they have the govt. backing and funds to follow through.
MTVG: Interesting read on fuel cell technology:
Fuel Cells
Fuel cells are now being recognized for their remarkable potential. Because they can use clean fuels (like Hydrogen gas, methanol, and others), and consume their fuel without combustion, they are clean in operation. The exhaust from hydrogen fuel cells is environmentally desirable, it is water. They are non-polluting and do not add GHGs to the environment. The most advanced models are inherently more efficient than power production based on combustion: they extract more power from their fuels than power plants that rely on burning Fossil Fuels.
Mantra is committed to fuel cell technology, but is investigating the wide field of possible applications. While there are fuel cells of all sizes, for all applications and markets, Mantra has identified several special niche fuel cell technologies for commercialization, and is actively engaged in pursuing these opportunities.
MVTG :interesting read on fuel cells.
Fuel Cells
Fuel cells are now being recognized for their remarkable potential. Because they can use clean fuels (like Hydrogen gas, methanol, and others), and consume their fuel without combustion, they are clean in operation. The exhaust from hydrogen fuel cells is environmentally desirable, it is water. They are non-polluting and do not add GHGs to the environment. The most advanced models are inherently more efficient than power production based on combustion: they extract more power from their fuels than power plants that rely on burning Fossil Fuels.
Mantra is committed to fuel cell technology, but is investigating the wide field of possible applications. While there are fuel cells of all sizes, for all applications and markets, Mantra has identified several special niche fuel cell technologies for commercialization, and is actively engaged in pursuing these opportunities.
I do too.still doing alot of research.from what I read so far they sure seem to have the niche in many of the green markets.
thanks much go for the bet you seem to have some very good knowledge of mantra..you are a great help
from what I have been reading on M Partners..what a company.and to be listed on the canada exchange would be a huge boost..
thanks much I really like what I see..
Fuel Cells
Fuel cells are now being recognized for their remarkable potential. Because they can use clean fuels (like Hydrogen gas, methanol, and others), and consume their fuel without combustion, they are clean in operation. The exhaust from hydrogen fuel cells is environmentally desirable, it is water. They are non-polluting and do not add GHGs to the environment. The most advanced models are inherently more efficient than power production based on combustion: they extract more power from their fuels than power plants that rely on burning Fossil Fuels.
Mantra is committed to fuel cell technology, but is investigating the wide field of possible applications. While there are fuel cells of all sizes, for all applications and markets, Mantra has identified several special niche fuel cell technologies for commercialization, and is actively engaged in pursuing these opportunities.
more great reading on fuel cells this will be huge for mantra now imo:
Hydrogen Fuel from Formic Acid
A simple new process generates hydrogen for fuel cells.
By Prachi Patel-Predd
Hydrogen on demand: A generating unit extracts hydrogen from formic acid and feeds it to a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell that runs a laptop.
Credit: Wiley-VCH
New research shows that formic acid could be used as a safe, easy-to-transport source of hydrogen for fuel cells. Matthias Beller and his colleagues at the Leibniz Institute of Catalysis, in Rostock, Germany, have found a way to convert formic acid, a common preservative and antibacterial agent, into hydrogen gas at low temperatures.
While hydrogen produced using this method might not find use in fuel-cell vehicles anytime soon, the researchers say that the process could produce sufficient quantities for micro fuel cells that power portable electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptops.
The challenge of producing, storing, and transporting hydrogen affordably has kept fuel cells from becoming popular. Instead of transporting hydrogen gas, it is more practical to have a hydrogen-containing material that can be broken down to generate the gas where it is needed. Currently, methane and methanol top the list of hydrogen sources for fuel-cell vehicles. They are typically broken down via steam reforming, which requires temperatures of more than 200 °C and a reforming unit.
Processes that work at cooler temperatures would not need a reformer or much energy, and therefore could be more suitable for producing hydrogen for smaller fuel cells that power portable electronic devices. The new process, which Beller and his colleagues outline in Angewandte Chemie, works at temperatures of 26 to 40 °C. The researchers mix formic acid with amines and expose the mixture to a ruthenium-based catalyst, which breaks down the acid into hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
"The advantage of formic acid is [that] it's a liquid . . . and is relatively easily handled," Beller says. While the pure acid is corrosive, the mixture of the acid with amines is benign, he says.
Formic acid can also be used directly in a fuel cell. That might be easier because it saves the extra step of first converting it into hydrogen. Tekion, based in Burnaby, Canada, is working with Germany-based chemical giant BASF, the largest producer of formic acid, to commercialize a fuel cell that uses formic acid directly. Tekion, which does not have a product on the market yet, claims that its formic-acid fuel cells are smaller and less complex than direct methanol fuel cells. But direct formic-acid fuel cells have the same drawback that makes methanol fuel cells expensive: both technologies are less efficient than hydrogen fuel cells.
Beller points out that using formic acid to make hydrogen also has drawbacks. Compared with methane and methanol, formic acid has much less hydrogen. If you use all the hydrogen in a kilogram of methanol, you get 4.19 kilowatt-hours of energy, while the hydrogen in a kilogram of formic acid gives 1.45 kilowatt-hours.
These is huge for mantra-mvtg-right out of todays' Tampa Tribune
Fuel Cell Technology is closer then you think!!
The US government removed a key roadblock this year when the Department of Transportation amended its hazardous materials regulations to allow cells with methanol,butane or formic acid to be carried on airplanes.Methanol and butane are flammable and formic acid is corrosive.That was one of the largest challenges to this market,to overcome that regulation issue!!!!
Very true and with todays PR they can become the no.1 business.The help from the govt. will be a plus!
Mantra has secured an exclusive option to a new technology developed at the University of Toronto that can take power developed from variable sources (e.g. wind farms, tidal, etc.) and converts that power source into “grid standard”. This technology is not new but the ability to drive the technology at 1-3% savings in efficiency is. Over the life of an installation these savings will be substantial. The other potential uses of this product have not yet been quantified.
The "grid" describes the system of wires and pipelines that carry energy, in the form of electricity or Natural Gas, to our homes and businesses. Currently 85% of our greenhouse gas emissions come from energy production and use, the majority of which uses the grid to funnel energy to our homes, offices and industries. Converting the grid system to be more reliant on renewable energy sources for power is one key step towards creating a sustainable energy market.
Mantra has acquired the intellectual property (patent-applied-for process) for a process developed at the University of British Columbia that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful products. This process, named ERC (electro-reduction of carbon dioxide), takes carbon dioxide and water, combined with electricity, to produce fuels and chemicals such as formic acid, formates and oxygen.
Mantras ERC machine will take care of a lot of that CO2 and turn it into formic acid that can be used and sold.
Good news regarding the British Columbia plan. The help with Govt. grants is a plus!
Yep,and that is just one of their many projects..they will be huge in all they do