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09/15/09 10:48 AM

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Sea 2 Sky Announces Update on Torrefaction Strategy
Torrified Wood to offer 30% less pollution to manufacturing facilities

FERNDALE, WASHINGTON, Sep 10, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Sea 2 Sky Corporation /quotes/comstock/11k!ssky (SSKY 0.10, -0.01, -5.00%) , a leading edge Renewable Bio-Energy Company, wishes to update its shareholders with respect to its Biomass and Torrefaction implementation. Torrefaction is a scientifically proven method for improving the properties of Biomass as a fuel. The end result of Torrified pellets is the formation of a solid product that retains approximately 70% of its initial weight and 90% of the original energy content. Sea 2 Sky plans to apply this technology to increase the energy output in Biomass products and to provide a coal like product with significant environmental advantages. Sea 2 Sky is currently exploring and evaluating several alliances pertaining to the Torrefaction method to best position itself and plans to market the Torrefied Biomass to existing coal factories to be co-fired in a pulverized coal boiler.

Torrefied Biomass facts and properties:

- Hydrophobic nature: the material does not regain humidity in storage and therefore unlike wood and charcoal, it is stable and with well defined composition.

- Lower moisture content and higher calorific values as compared to unprocessed Biomass.

- Exhausts less emissions when ignited in end user applications and can be produced in a desired shape and form.

- Higher density and similar mechanical strength compared to the initial Biomass.

- Suitable for various applications as a fuel - in the steel industry, combustion, and gasification.

- Torrefied products can substitute charcoal in a number of applications such as fuel for domestic cooking stoves or residential heating.

- Raw material for manufacture of improved solid fuel products such as fuel pellets, compacted fireplace logs and barbecue briquettes for commercial and domestic uses. Torrefied briquettes have superior combustion characteristic as compared with ordinary briquettes.

- Fuel for industrial uses. Important advantage of Torrefied wood compared to wood is its uniformity. It is as a predictable, flexible fuel with optimum combustion and transport economies. Due to the low moisture content of Torrefied wood, the transport cost is lower and the quality as a fuel better. It is easily packaged and transported thru traditional mechanisms, and thus constitutes an efficient fuel.