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A Note From Tom Bowers, President of Colusa Biomass
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 yeast (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 technologies 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 final lease form.

Please hang on as we believe that we're a great bet for the renewable fuels industry.

Tom Bowers