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Re: es1 post# 96005

Wednesday, 07/28/2010 4:12:59 PM

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:12:59 PM

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Has algae been continuously harvested? How do you know that? I seem to remember reading about BEHL waiting on Parts for the harvester. It wasn't in a PR .. it was in an Email from Dennis to another shareholder. So maybe ..?

You said

I dont remember how large the PBR in SA is but if it is 1/2 an acre



Here is what I know about it .. When it was originally built, it was 6000 Sq ft. BUT that was before they changed the tubes and before they installed the gravity fed PBR in the same basin. The current PBR in Santa Ana is less than 6000 sq ft.

But for the sake of argument, 43560 sq ft = 1 acre 6000 sq ft = 6000/43560 acre = 0.13774

50 gal of oil per acre per daywas the number from SJC's PBR. Algae is 50% oil and 50 gal weighs about 450 pounds so we are looking at 900 pounds of algae per acre per day. I dont remember how large the PBR in SA is but if it is 1/2 an acre that would put us at 400 pounds of algae per day.(12000 pounds a month)

Based on that we have harvested around 5-6 tons of algae since the new tubes were put in. I dont know what they have done with 12000 pounds of algae but I cant really see them filling their trash dumpster with it every week.

Everyone is looking for revenue it seems to me that revenue might already be in the bank. Either that or they have a very large algae mountain forming in their parking lot.



I don't believe that the Santa Ana Location has produced 12,000 pounds of algae since July 12th. (The tubes arrived on the 8th .. I think the system was set up by the 12th.)

I'm willing to bet ... ZERO revenue has been Banked due to algae production in Santa Ana.