Industry Source Consulting Inc (INSO)

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Salmonsitka, In your search for a conspiracy, you have the facts bass-ackwards. The wood pellet manufacturer, Thunderbolt Biomass, would be there whether a ATP-SC builds a plant or not. CEO Knox Grant is in the wood pellet business. He sells to others customers. He is located there because of the ready supply of raw wood waste from Collums Lumber and sawmill, the owner of the property. The fact that he can also produce for the JV just gives him a very convenient new customer. The only reason the JV would purchase wood pellets from Thunderbolt is to increase capacity. It's not that hard to understand. Pre-dried wood pellets can be turned into biocoal faster than raw, wet wood waste. It increases the speed of the torrefaction process, thereby resulting in more biocoal per hour. It will cost more, but at this point, its all about production and filling orders. As plant capacity increases, with additional machines, I'm sure ATP-SC will use less and less wood pellets, and use just wood waste and crop biomass. So just to review for you.....wood pellets go into the torrefaction machine (step one). They are torrefied into biocoal (step two). The biocoal is sized to whatever the buyer wants, pellets bricks or whatever.

Your Welcome,

RL