First American Scientific Corp. (fka FASC)

[All City Baby]

RJ, that's a great idea. I am going to send this to my Premier of Ontario and I recently sent a version similar to it to the Minister of the Environment in Ontario.

Dear ,

With respect to the issue of municipal pollution and Lake Simcoe (http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/news/2007/120601.php), I believe a possible solution to that and a host of other environmental issues facing Ontario is a machine (a "grinder-dryer") called the KDS Micronex. The patent rights belong to First American Scientific Corporation of Delta, B.C. (FASC - Nasdaq Bulletin Board.)

Extensive government-funded research testing has been done in Prince George, B.C., attempting to convert municipal biosolids into a Class "A" fertilizer which could be bagged and sold to the public. A commercially economical machine has not yet been achieved, however, successful pathogen kill was achieved in all tests to date. According to the company's most recent quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (http://sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=first+american+sci&CIK=&filenum=&State=&SIC=&owner=include&action=getcompany), they "have now commenced fabrication of a Phase Two testing facility in Abbotsford where we will build and test a commercial scale model to be perfected and offered for sale to Price George."

The KDS has a host of other potential environmental applications. One of which is the grinding and drying of biomass, to which the Canadian government had funded research with respect to wood waste.

The company website is http://www.fasc.net. There it describes what makes the KDS an effective and unique grinding and drying piece of equipment:


The material enters the torus rotor chamber where it falls onto spinning chains and is subject to enormous centrifugal accelerations. The chains spin with a tip speed of about 400 mph. The material is “fractured” as it impacts repetitively with the chains and the strike plates on the sides of the torus. Liquid water is squeezed out of the material due to the compressive action of the impacts. Heat created from the kinetic energy of the impacts evaporates some of the moisture in the material. When appropriate particle size reduction is achieved, air flow in the torus lifts the particles upwards towards the classifier. Because some of the water removal happens due to mechanical forces, less energy is consumed than in thermal dryers – usually, only 500 to 900 BTU per pound of water removed - less than the latent heat of water! No heat input is used - only electricity. (http://fasc.net/kds_main.htm)


There is a host of information pertaining to the KDS Micronex (including links to published, government funded studies) available at www.investorshub.com in the group FASC.

The board is http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=566


As a concerned citizen I respectfully ask that you take a quick look to see if this machine might warrant further consideration in helping to solve Ontario's environmental challenges.

Sincerely,