Replies to post #57725 on Biocentric Energy Holdings, Inc. (BEHL)

[es1]

The answer to your question is really simple. BEHL is not in the business of making fuel OR food. They make PBRs and service them. The person who buys the PBR can make anything they choose. BEHL will supply the strain of algae for fuel, food, cosmetics, or medicinal.

That is the true strength of this company. All of their customers will be paying for maintainance on their system.

Before we can sell the algae strain we have to know what will work the best for each application. That is why BEHL has smaller PBRs. They are easy to clean and reload with a new strain.

I dont think a poor test is a bad thing it is just a way to add one of the 3000 strains of algae to the "do not use" list.

As for why BEHL would choose food as its first product? Food algae is $9000 a ton and fule algae is about $1500 a ton. If you are going to produce a "small" amount to use as working capital then food is the right choice.

All the PRs, bashers,pumping and speculation in the world doesnt change the fact that the cheapest way to produce bulk algae of any strain is a multi million dollar product. We all just have to wait for things to build up. I have total faith in DF and the BEHL team

[Ecomike]

Good points, another concern I have about BEHL's reactor is it's lack of use of overhead space. All their competitors seems to have a dozen or more tubes in a row in a vertical space, and MIT had vertical tubes, not horizontal. The vertical tubes in the MIT set up made a lot more sense to me. By going horizontal BEHL created his own gas problem thus needing to come up with a way to move trapped gas bubbles and biomass out of the tubes. MIT made use of density differences to their advantage, DF has not, not yet anyway.

[TOZ]

when dennis said fuel is not our first priorety, he was saying that he will pick the low hanging fruit first. A half a million $$. Maybe fuel is next and you know there is bigger money there as you stated. Give it time. Dennis isn't going to sell anything unless its bean proven first.