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technoman, thats good to know
Lets hope their agreement with Startech covers that and other biofuels
Gator...yes focus on ethanol
but since NSOL seem to be big planners, they should be keeping an eye on diesel for the future.
Diesel is the world’s most efficient internal combustion engine and can be made from plant material and coal among other things. Technology is working on creating clean diesel.
200 Million cars running on diesel engines is possible some time in the future. For now...ethanol is the play
waste to energy
covers more than just ethanol, so how big is their thinking?
I wonder if this new hybrid approach can be used for biodiesel as well as ethanol.
So instead of corn waste, they could use soybean and canola waste thru the plasma converter to supply energy for biodiesel process.
Question is...does the Startech contract cover biodiesel and other biofuels or just ethanol?
gator, if waste that normally emits CO2 as it decays was used as FFI feedstock and converted to ethanol, would it not actually reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
The FFI process does not emit CO2 as a byproduct, right? or am I smokin dope?
Technology + Resource plays is what I invest in and is why I am here
Turning waste into fuel really interests me.
Nasdaqman...
Look at the positive side...if real estate drops in value, waiting might not be a bad thing...lol
My kids love playing Monopoly (and love it even more when they beat me)
Usually, the player that collects the most properties upfront (while depleting their cash) has the best strategic chance of winning in the end.
Lets hope NSOL picks the best ethanol properties upfront :)
I can wait to retire...lol
Long term...this is a good place to add shares
Short term...I don't think its moving because there are no details.
so if you are a trader, its not a play, if your a new investor, its worth checking into.
So, the waste turns into CO2 either way? I had not considered that. Good input Gator, thank you.
I guess that would take away much of the enviromentalist's objection and make something useful out of what would have been thrown away. I just love the concept!
What about CO2 emissions?
I guess the plasma gasifier could be used as an energy source for just about anything as long as you have appropriate waste product to fuel it.
I don't get the value NSOL is providing. Why not talk to Startech directly?
Please don't tell me its because NSOL has an exclusive agreement, there has got to be other value. I have seen many a contract go up in flames because of greed.
NSOL threw me a curve ball!
What value is NSOL providing in this situation? What do they own and how is it protected? How does this effect the existing FFI business? Will FFI still execute on time? Are they deluding resources?
Not saying this isnt good, I just need to research it.
An E goes on the end of your stock symbol when you dont file on time and tends to discourage potential buyers.
If it does happen, it would not be the first time for NSOL.
Thanks Techoman for that piece of data. It certainly could explain the price moment.
Gator, I think its important to understand why people are selling, don't you?
I don't subscribe to the "They want to get your shares" theory though. My guess is its simply the delay of bond announcement.
What say everyone else?
Ouch, wasn't expecting it to go so low with so much on the plate.
Has something fundamental changed?
Obviously we need the bond money announcement. Lack of it certainly has contributed to the decline in price and is testing everyone's resolve.
Just another small example that FFI is for real.
Future Fuels 2006
27 November 2006 to 29 November 2006
Washington D.C., USA
The 2005 Energy Policy Act introduced the Renewable Fuel Standard, which will double the use of ethanol and biodiesel in the US by 2012. Earlier this year, President Bush’s Advanced Energy Initiative confirmed the government’s commitment to alternative energy sources based on new technologies, including hybrid vehicles, ethanol and biodiesel, clean coal technology and hydrogen.
This conference will draw together policy-makers, refiners, fuel retailers and automotive manufacturers with specialist developers of ethanol, biodiesel, and unconventional hydrocarbon resources. Panels of expert speakers will discuss and debate the most viable and cost-effective options for increasing the production, distribution and use of alternative fuels in the US and reducing long-term dependence on foreign oil resources
Speakers include:
Guy Caruso, Administrator, ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
Phil New, Head of Biofuels Business, BP
Keith Cole, Director, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs - Environmental, GENERAL MOTORS CORP.
Dan Reicher, President, New Energy Capital and former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Douglas Durante, Executive Director, CLEAN FUELS DEVELOPMENT COALITION
Roger Conway, Director, Office of Energy Policy and New Uses, US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Fabrizio Zichichi, Executive Vice President, Clean Fuels, NOBLE AMERICAS CORP.
Mike Pacheco, Director, National Bioenergy Center, NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY (NREL)
Douglas Kaempf, Manager of the Biomass Program, US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Javier Salgado, President & CEO, ABENGOA BIOENERGY
Jack Young, President, FUEL FRONTIERS INC.
David Jhirad, Vice President Research & Technology, WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE
Hon. Roberto Abdenur, Brazilian Ambassador to the US
Graham Noyes, Vice President, WORLD ENERGY ALTERNATIVES
Loren Beard, Senior Manager, Environment & Energy, DAIMLERCHRYSLER
Lawrence D. Sullivan, Biodiesel Business Development, DELTA-T CORPORATION
Marty Ross, Managing Director, MID-ATLANTIC BIODIESEL
Jack Holmes, President & CEO, SYNTROLEUM
Robert Kelly, Partner, DKRW ENERGY
David Geanacopoulos, Director, Industry & Government Relations, VOLKSWAGEN AMERICA
Carmen Difiglio, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Analysis, Office of Policy and International Affairs, US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
David Henson, Business Development Manager (USA), CHOREN INDUSTRIES
Henrik Eremetsa, VP US Operations, NESTE OIL
Andrew Kingston, President & CEO, DYNAMOTIVE ENERGY SYSTEMS
Martin Goldblatt, Vice President Sales, GREENFUEL TECHNOLOGY CORP.
Herman Franssen, President, INTERNATIONAL ENERGY ASSOCIATES
Bill Holmberg, Chairman, Biomass Coordinating Council, AMERICAN COUNCIL ON RENEWABLE ENERGY (ACORE)
Sillas Oliva Filho, Commercial Director, Ethanol & Oxygenates, PETROBRAS
Pam Serino, Chief of Product Technology and Standardization, DEFENSE ENERGY SUPPORT CENTER
Richard Kassel, Head of Clean Vehicles & Fuels Project, NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)
Ingvar Landal, Technical Director, CHEMREC
Henrik Landal, Manager, Environmental Projects, VOLVO
For more information on this event or to register your interest, please email Joanne Leonard or telephone +44 207 978 0075.
To find out how you can further your involvement in Future Fuels 2006 please contact Tim Millard or telephone +44 207 978 0083
Future Fuels 2006 is part of the CWC Alternative Energy Series of events.
Startech Environmental Has Been Added to the Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index
WILTON, Conn., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Startech Environmental Corporation (OTC: STHK) (BULLETIN BOARD: STHK) , a fully reporting company, announced today that it has been added as a component to the Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index.
About Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index
The Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index is a basket of U.S.-traded small-cap alternative energy stocks. The Index provides both institutional and individual investors a gauge for tracking the day-to-day performance of small-cap alternative energy stocks. The index is designed for investors who have a long-term bullish outlook on the renewable and alternative energy market. The Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index is owned and operated by Ludlow Energy Fund, Inc., based in New York City. Additional information is available at http://www.ludlowcapital.com/indices/.
About Startech -- an Environment and Energy Company
Startech Environmental is an environment and energy industry company engaged in the production and sale of its innovative, proprietary plasma processing equipment known as the Plasma Converter System(TM).
The Plasma Converter System safely and economically destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or lethal, and turns them into useful and valuable products. In doing so, the System protects the environment and helps to improve the public health and safety. The System achieves closed-loop elemental recycling to safely and irreversibly destroy Municipal Solid Waste, organics and inorganics, solids, liquids and gases, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, industrial by-products and also items such as "e-waste," medical waste, chemical industry waste and other specialty wastes while converting many of them into useful commodity products that can include metals and a synthesis-gas called Plasma Converted Gas (PCG)(TM).
Among the many commercial uses for PCG, it can be used to produce "green power electricity," Gas To Liquid (GTL) fuels such as ethanol, synthetic diesel fuel and other higher alcohol fuels. Hydrogen, for use and sale, can also be separated from the PCG synthesis gas mixture.
The Startech Plasma Converter is essentially a manufacturing system producing commodity products from feedstocks that were previously regarded as wastes. Startech regards all wastes, hazardous and non-hazardous, as valuable renewable resources.
For further information, please visit http://www.startech.net/ or contact Steve Landa at (888) 807-9443, (203) 762-2499 EXT 7 or sales@startech.net
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the Company's plans and expectations regarding the development and commercialization of its Plasma Converter(TM) technology. All forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Factors that could cause such a difference include, without limitation, failure of the customer to obtain appropriate financing for the project, general risks associated with product development, manufacturing, rapid technological change and competition as well as other risks set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
Contacts:
Joseph F. Longo, President Philip Bourdillon / Gene Heller
Startech Environmental Corp. Silverman Heller Associates
203-762-2499 310-208-2550
Website: http://www.startech.net/
Website: http://www.ludlowcapital.com/indices
Ethanol, butanol or other fuels, he added, could be made for 60 to 70 cents a gallon.
This guy is singing our song...
Cheaper fuels, independence from foreign oil within easy reach, consultant says
By James Pletcher Jr., Herald-Standard
08/13/2006
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A car that gets 500 miles per gallon powered by $1 or less per gallon fuel made in Fayette County?
Neither is a fantastic claim nor are they science fiction, according to Barry Hanson, a retired engineer and a member of BERA, the Biomass Energy Research Association. He works as a renewable energy consultant.
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Hanson has written a book, "Energy Power Shift,'' and is a proponent of emerging technologies that offer alterative forms of power delivered by sources much more plentiful and less expensive than oil, natural gas or gasoline.
Hanson has a broad understanding of both energy issues and applications with a formal education in chemistry and work experience as both a chemist and a mechanical design engineer.
Hanson was a project manager for Beckett Harmon Colvin and Day Inc. of Denver, Colo., where he was responsible for the design development and mechanical systems construction documents for commercial and industrial projects.
Hanson and his wife, Alice, have hands-on experience with alternative energy, having designed their home and business facility using passive solar, wind and photovoltaics. They now live on 80 wooded acres in far northern Wisconsin, a mile from the nearest utility line.
"The implication is that we can control our economic destiny with local resources,'' Hanson said in a telephone interview from his Wisconsin home.
"No one has come after me and told me my engineering assumptions or calculations are off base. We could do it on every corner and the reason we aren't should be questioned vigorously by the media and people who care about wealth and jobs in this country. These jobs could be kept in this country.
No more foreign oil
"I contend you don't need foreign oil at all and you don't need nuclear power at all.''
Hanson said more than $300 billion each year "leaves this country from crude oil alone.''
Earlier this summer, Hanson spoke to members of the Uniontown Kiwanis Club while on a visit to his wife's relatives in Uniontown.
"What I told the Kiwanis is that Fayette County will lose about $200 million to $210 million a year because they have to purchase energy from outside the region.
"They can keep a lot of money in the local community instead of letting it go out to purchase energy in the form of electricity or transportation fuels. The focus (of his talks) is that there is a real economic implication for a region,'' he said.
The obvious question when speaking to Hanson is why isn't the government or industry pouring funds into these alternatives to end America's reliance on foreign energy sources.
"We are talking about energy policy because that is what is controlling it. This administration favors profiting from oil within the next 12 to 15 years. This is a fairly well-substantiated, well-known policy and how it came about.
"The intention here is they want to profit from oil in the short term before anything else gets too large a foothold. But this has changed somewhat in the 2005 Energy Policy Act. It allowed some loopholes from pressure from people who are seeing the alternatives. So there is some allowance for non-corn ethanol. A process like this is actually covered in this legislation so someone should be able to qualify for loan guarantees or subsidies based on the fact they are producing ethanol,'' he said.
"The policy is made for the benefit of nuclear and oil companies but we are losing the jobs to the UK, Germany, Japan, Spain, and once those are lost we will be behind the curve.
"We won't be able to get those jobs back. Exxon might be sitting just fine right now, but there is something horribly wrong when we are looking at the benefits to this country. These policies are misguided and benefiting these corporations to the misbenefit of this country.
"Unfortunately, the business world and political world are not interested in the best interests of a region or a county,'' Hanson added.
Benefits to region
"The potential exists now to put into place some of these emerging technologies to allow regions, counties or local areas to make use of the energy resources they have available in the form of waste or biomass. In this region, it could be low-grade coal where you have quite a bit of high-sulfur coal that can't be sold for a good price, so it ends up in a pile somewhere.''
Hanson reviewed a project he is consulting on in Superior, Wis.
"They are putting in a $25 million waste-to-ethanol facility that will use waste off a garbage truck, sewage sludge and quite a few used tires and wood wastes from some manufacturing processes to create ethanol. Some of the wastes will also be used to directly create electricity,'' he said.
"To give you an example of what can be done, say you have 150,000 tons of waste. They could gasify it in a two-stage gasifier to bring all the material up to about 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit. There is no flue because they don't combust the material. There are no emissions to go into the environment on a continuing basis. This process turns all the material into carbon monoxide hydrogen. It is injected into a reactor as a fluid that contains bacteria that converts the gas directly into ethanol. This plant could do from 7 to 8 million gallons of ethanol a year and could generate about two megawatts of electricity per year, or enough to power 17 billion kilowatt hours per year that would power a couple of thousand homes.
"You are taking resources from the community within hauling distance and converting it into end-use energy. If you have an operation like this where county government can put this into place, they could bring it in for from $10 million to $12 million.
"One module shows the facility would create about 40 direct jobs and many indirect jobs for a total of about 200 permanent jobs.
"It's like anything else. You would have job numbers based on how much capital investment you made. You would have direct job creation and possibly from two to three times more indirect job creation.
"The main thing is you are keeping the money local and you are able to do it with a community where everybody needs the product and spends a lot of money on it. On that $200 million you are spending outside, you could recoup $160 million with these types of processes.''
Emerging technologies
Hanson said the "exciting thing about these newer and emerging technologies is that they enable a small entity to get into this business. You don't have to have a nuclear plant or coal-fired plant to make this product.''
Another alternative to gasoline is butanol, which can be made in a process similar to ethanol.
Hanson explained ethanol has a composition including two carbon atoms while butanol contains four.
"You can opt to put butanol into engines without modification, where ethanol has to be mixed with other things. My personal opinion is that butanol is the fuel to look at and keep your eye on as a breakthrough fuel that will have a real impact on our economy.
"They are doing research on it at Ohio State and Illinois State universities where they drove an older model passenger car to California that polluted less and got about the same gas mileage.
"You make butanol in a bioreactor or with a fermentation process or, a third way, in a fissure-controlled synthesis, which makes syn-gas, which is carbon monoxide and hydrogen, into just about any kind of fuel you want.
"This process was developed during World War II by the Nazis who used it to produce fuel.''
Ethanol, butanol or other fuels, he added, could be made for 60 to 70 cents a gallon.
"Fayette County, for example, could do this and lower taxes and create jobs. They could sell a transportation fuel for less than $1 a gallon. All they would have to do is put in a co-op fuel station and let the marketplace take care of itself. Put in the station and then see if people are willing to buy the product for $1 or less a gallon,'' he said.
The end result would include improvements in jobs and the environment,
"You wouldn't be importing any more oil and you would not be paying for military involvement to protect foreign sources of oil where the country now is spending about $75 billion a year, and that's according to the administration's own figures.
"You currently not only have a trade deficit in Fayette County, but you have one in the entire country. You could eliminate that deficit for oil and it would become a lot a safer because it would eliminate terrorist targets. So, you have social values as well.''
Ample supplies of fuel
The best "feed stock,'' for such a facility, Hanson said, are used tires and sewage sludge, both of which are amply available.
"You will get from 150 to 160 gallons of fuel from one ton of waste. The tires are loaded with BTUs (British Thermal Units) and so is waste plastic. Sewage sludge contains water and is needed in the process. In the end, you could get well over 100 gallons of ethanol for one ton of waste. That's a good example of how you can use a resource.
"We have enough waste and biomass to run the whole U.S. But there are other processes. There is anaerobic digestion, which is much more economically viable today. You can produce 25 tons of cane per acre, put it into an anaerobic digester in the ground, let certain bacteria digest it and make methane. With this process, you can make methane for about $3 for 1 million BTUs. Methane is now wholesaling for $8 to $10 per million BTU.
"There is also a fast pyrolsis where you take just about any type of woody waste and break it down into methane, syn-gas, a pyrolosis oil, which you can use in turbines.
"There are other kinds of gasifiers. They all take some kind of waste and do something with it in terms of syn-gas or electricity. Even slaughterhouse wastes could be used. There are also gas-to-liquid and coal-to-liquid processes where you can convert coal or natural gas into a liquid fuel. There is biodiesel where you use vegetable oil and there is landfill gas recovery,'' Hanson said.
Combining technologies
"I talk about other technologies that you can incorporate along with this,'' Hanson said.
Among these, he added, are high temperature fuel cells.
"These are taking center stage,'' he said, explaining they run on carbon fuels placed into a solid oxide fuel cell, which makes electricity and heat with no emissions, quietly, on site.
"You no longer need a (electric) transmission line. It costs more to transmit the electricity than its costs to generate it and that's where all the problems are. There are 40 to 50 of these in place in the country now. There's one in Ohio where they capture leaking methane from a coal mine and provide electricity to a small town nearby.''
Hanson said Los Angeles (Calif.) County also installed a fuel cell that makes heat and electricity.
"In my book, I talk a lot about plug-in hybrid vehicles, where you can use these fuels and get 500 miles per gallon. No one has argued with me, and the book is endorsed by a scientific group that does not frivolously endorse stuff. (The endorsement comes from the Union of Concerned Scientists, an international organization of scientists/citizens whose membership includes more than 100 Nobel Prize winners).
"Energy analysts also went over my book pretty closely.
"If someone thinks I'm kidding about 500 miles per gallon, I can show you how to do it. No one has picked my bones over those calculations.
"My book talks about waste, solar, wind and how they factor in just fine in creating energy. You could do 22 percent of the electrical demand in wind alone in this country without any kind of problem putting it into the grid when the wind doesn't blow. That's an industry that is growing fast, about $3 billion a year.
"The research in wind is continuing forward. About 90 percent of the wind generators are made in Europe, in Denmark, a country with a third of the population of Pennsylvania that's doing from $4 billion to $5 billion a year in wind generation,'' he said.
Hanson's book has been out about two years and he plans to revise it as new technologies come on line.
Technoman, do you have a link to this article?
I can't seem to find it anywhere on-line.
thanks in advance
When's the next Tom's River meeting?
Anybody know?
It might make more sense to fly there and be at the meeting then second guess every move FFI makes posting here.
Aren't these the same people that didnt want drilling in Alaska?
Wish they would do something more than whine.
Democrats call on Congress to probe BP shutdown
Mon Aug 7, 2006 2:58pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday called on the U.S. Congress to hold hearings into BP's operations in Alaska following a second oil pipeline rupture at its Prudhoe Bay operations over the weekend that will shut the 400,000 barrel-a-day oilfield.
"It is appalling that BP let this critical pipeline deteriorate to the point that a major production shutdown was necessary," said Rep. John Dingell, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, in a statement.
"The United States Congress has an obligation to hold hearings to determine what broke down here and what laws and regulations need to be improved to ensure problem pipelines like these are found and fixed earlier," Dingell said.
Democratic Rep. Edward Markey, who also serves on the House committee, said the shutdown reflects BP's chronic mismanagement of its U.S. drilling operations and that the company had been earning enough money to prevent the problem.
"With oil above $70 per barrel and BP making record profits, it can afford to properly clean and maintain its pipelines," Markey said in a statement.
Markey said the Department of Transportation's Office of Pipeline Safety needed the legal authority to require minimum maintenance standards and avoid such pipeline shutdowns.
"This sudden loss of production will dramatically increase oil prices and the American people will be footing the bill for this combined failure of DOT's regulatory oversight and BP's corporate responsibility," he said.
Congress is now out for its month-long summer recess, and any hearings on the shutdown would not take place until lawmakers return in early September.
In the meantime, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer said the Bush administration should immediately release oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help offset the lost Alaska crude supplies.
Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said the government was prepared to make oil loans from the emergency stockpile to West Coast refiners if they requested the supplies.
Gator, I have the perfect subject...
You know anybody who needs an "anti-stupid" pill?
Mon Aug 7, 2006 8:30am ET
More Oddly Enough News...
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German scientist has been testing an "anti-stupidity" pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported Saturday.
It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping stabilize short-term memory and improve attentiveness.
"With mice and fruit flies we were able to eliminate the loss of short-term memory," Ropers, 62, is quoted saying in the German newspaper, which has dubbed it the "world's first anti-stupidity pill."
OPEC regrets high prices...
"High prices bring more revenue to OPEC in the short term, but exporters worry that sustained increases hurt the global economy and encourage consumers to invest in alternative energy."
Oil price spike "very uncomfortable": OPEC
Jul 19, 6:19 AM (ET)
ABUJA (Reuters) - The latest spike in oil prices is "very uncomfortable" and it is having a negative impact on the world economy, OPEC President Edmund Daukoru said on Wednesday.
Daukoru, who is also Nigeria's top oil official, told Reuters the Israel-Hizbollah conflict was responsible for the latest spike, which saw U.S. crude oil futures hit $78.40 a barrel last week, and that OPEC had plenty of spare production capacity should it be needed.
"If it would have stabilized around the mid-60s, I don't think people would complain too much. We are getting used to that, but the latest shootup to the mid-70s and above is very uncomfortable," Daukoru said on the sidelines of a conference in the Nigerian capital.
"Clearly the latest flare-up between Israel and Hizbollah that is really the reason for the latest spike," he said. "It is always unfortunate if we have to address issues outside the power of OPEC."
High prices bring more revenue to OPEC in the short term, but exporters worry that sustained increases hurt the global economy and encourage consumers to invest in alternative energy.
Asked if current prices were hurting the economy, he said: "At such high prices it must have an impact."
Daukoru said he would travel to the Middle East Gulf next week to address some internal OPEC issues such as a forthcoming summit, and would take advantage of the trip to discuss the oil market situation.
"We do our best to moderate the market, but with the current level of volatility one only can take short term decisions. We tend to react at three-monthly intervals," he said.
Daukoru said OPEC had spare production capacity available if it was required.
"We should have even more than 2 million barrels per day available, so whether the disruption comes as a result of Iran or some other cause, we will be able to put on the extra capacity provided there are refineries to take it," he said.
Hi Trader,
Thanks for the heads up. Rehashing old news...doesn't instill confidence, does it?
STARTECH'S CHINA DISTRIBUTOR ANNOUNCES JOINT VENTURE CONTRACT INCORPORATING A PLASMA CONVERTER SYSTEM™
WILTON, CT, July 13, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Startech Environmental Corporation (OTCBB: STHK) announced today Startech's Distributor, GlobalTech Environmental Incorporated (GlobalTech) signed a $15 million joint venture contract with the Liaoning Academy of Environmental Sciences for the establishment of the Liaoning GlobalTech Hazardous Waste Processing Facility Co. Ltd. using the Startech Plasma Converter System.
The 20,000 pound-per-day Startech System that will be the first in China will process industrial hazardous waste including PCBs.
In October of 2005, Startech announced that GlobalTech, with offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Changzhou was appointed its exclusive distributor for the Peoples Republic of China.
Startech - a Waste Industry and Energy Company
Startech Environmental is a Waste Industry and Energy company producing and selling of its innovative, proprietary plasma processing equipment known as the Plasma Converter System™.
The Plasma Converter System safely and economically destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or lethal, and turns them into useful and valuable products. In doing so, the System protects the environment and helps to improve the public health and safety.
The System achieves closed-loop elemental recycling to safely and irreversibly destroy Municipal Solid Waste, organics and inorganics, solids, liquids and gases, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, industrial by-products and also items such as "e-waste," medical waste, chemical industry waste and other specialty wastes while converting many of them into useful commodity products that can include metals and a synthesis-gas called Plasma Converted Gas (PCG)™.
Among the many commercial uses for PCG, it can be used to produce "green power," fuel-grade ethanol and also hydrogen for sale.
The Startech Plasma Converter is essentially a manufacturing system producing commodity products from feedstocks that were previously regarded as wastes. Startech regards all wastes, hazardous and non-hazardous, as valuable renewable resources.
For further information, please visit www.startech.net
CONTACT:
Steve Landa
(888) 807-9443
(203) 762-2499 x 7
sales@startech.net
NSOL up, Oil at new high, and Stock market down 141
How's everyone feeling?
Same article talks about Altra...
Altra happens to be funded by VCs. Altra is aquiring ethanol plants. If Altra didnt know about FFI, they do now. Question is, how does that change the landscape, if at all?
Interesting that this new release hit almost right after the FFI website was brought up.
Glad I bought more yesterday.
"In central Ohio's Coshocton, Los Angeles-based Altra Inc. broke ground on Tuesday on a $100 million ethanol plant that will be partly financed with up to $85 million of air quality bonds approved by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority."
maybe this part from the news release is why the stock is moving...
"Fuel Frontiers, a subsidiary of Nuclear Solutions Inc. (NSOL.OB: Quote, Profile, Research), plans to produce 55 million gallons of ethanol a year from old tires at the plant, said company spokesman Fred Frisco. He said final approval for the bonds would be sought in about a month."
Its a good sign...
The price did not go down after I bought!
I predict a huge move to the upside now...lol
Good Luck All...may we all make money off of other peoples' waste
5years...I am buying another 11k
That's what I say!
Love the FFI revamped website.
Let's hope the next step is now around the corner.
OT...agreed
Although one action was caught...and the other wasn't.
enough said! back to FFI
Stlogic, I have to agree...
pricing action looks like what we went thru at around .80...
at least I hope so!
OT...I heard on the radio...
that if you play the tape back long enough you will see the Italian player had "tweeked" Mr Z's nipple beforehand...lol
Another reason why you cant take a snapshot and expect to have the whole story...
Now show me the money!
Where's the beef?
Guess I am getting tired of hearing how good its gonna be when we finally get the beef.
I will be glad when this "positioning" is done and FFI lays out the facts and proves what smart investors we all are.
ugh
Third press release in three weeks
Lets hope this is leading somewhere big.
I like the volume so far...
Now show us the money!
Tom8oes...when have you ever said to sell?
LOL
Thanks for the info though, sounds encouraging.
Sometimes the best time to buy is when things are quiet on the message boards...I hope its true in this case.
Happy 4th everyone!
this is like real estate...its always a good time to buy...lol
"a network of ethanol production plants FFI anticipates creating"
WOW
I am lovin the words, but how much foreplay can one handle?...lol
Hard to envision this is all hype, but without details and proof of technology, how do they expect big hitters to come on board?
I so need a vegas party...make it so NSOL