Global Resource Corp (fka GBRC)

[Hawk Hogan]

One of the most enjoyable things to do with .75 million dollars of sophisticated lab equipment is to have free reign to explore potentials for renewable energy and whatever else encompassed the imagination. During the good times it didn’t matter who wanted to try new stuff; lab techs, students, investors, professors, friends, reverends, wives, dates (lol), you name it, they came and brought their ideas and we ran it. Saturday’s were the best!

At any rate, we knew through our exhausting studies the applications being done by others using corn containing starch that can be converted to bioethanol. We also knew that corn of course is a major human and animal feedstock in itself including many foods byproducts. So instead of impacting the human consumptive portion of the plant we thought about trying the application on silage (everything else remaining after picking the corn and typically used for animal feedstock).

Thus the term “Corn bi-products” used in GBRC’s claim and what was determined from testing the stalk and not the corn although the sentence states: “GBRC microwave technology has the ability to produce an estimated 3,000 Btu's of energy per cubic foot of corn. Approximately 6,000 cubic feet per ton of corn." When in actuality it was the corn stalk without the corn on the cob.

Having explained that a little better, I’ll add that most other herbaceous materials have been microwave converted to hydrocarbon liquids and mass spectrometry tested with excellent results as well, but in my opinion switchgrass (lignocellulosic NWSG) is a much better economical solution to renewable energy biofuel feedstock due to other pre & post productive factors included.

By the way, a good source of switchgrass information can be seen here: http://agbiopubs.sdstate.edu/articles/SGINC1-07.pdf