If you'd watched the TED presentation, you'd know the answer to your question -- it's not about manufacturing or installation, it's "administrative and operational" (heck, I even quoted him saying that in my post yesterday).
Do you have any engineering background that would allow you to even remotely "guess" at how long it would take to reproduce the processors? Have you considered all the variables involved in doing so?
i've been manufacturing for 37 years....weeks lies in dreamland. i would heap praise on anyone that could get one of those together in 4 months. most people without experience in the field have little idea about the time involved. i've spent 6 months on projects less than half that size.
So one needs to ask themselves, does he even have one that works...
I suppose that would be true. I'm guessing that's why many of the posters on this board over the past couple of years have actually gone to the facility and watched fuel pour out as plastic is pumped in.
Vadxx Energy LLC of Cleveland has enlisted Rockwell Automation to help refine its proprietary process to manufacture synthetic crude oil and natural gas using petroleum-based raw material feedstock wastes at Vadxx's demonstration plant in Akron.
Under the agreement with Vadxx, Rockwell Automation will complete the front-end engineering and design work necessary to commercialize Vadxx's proprietary processes by the end of this year. Both companies then expect to enter into an engineering, procurement and construction contract that “enables Rockwell Automation to manufacture Vadxx's commercial production units in modular fashion to accelerate Vadxx's market implementation and refine the quality of Vadxx's synthetic crude oil.”
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Jim Garrett, CEO of Vadxx, said in a statement, “Vadxx's objective is to implement over 100 commercial oil production units in the next five years. Partnering with such a credible company as Rockwell Automation is a significant step toward meeting this goal.”
Terry Gebert, vice president and general manager of Rockwell's Global Solutions unit, said the company “will help Vadxx reduce risk while getting their waste-to-energy process to market sooner, and leverage our global operations as Vadxx expands its offering to other regions of the world."
Vadxx has signed memorandums of understanding to form joint ventures with various feedstock providers for its first three commercial production units in Northeast Ohio. Vadxx expects the first commercial unit to begin producing crude oil in late 2012.
Vadxx says it has developed proprietary processes that transform discarded petroleum-based wastes, including plastics and other polymer-based wastes, into synthetic crude oil and gas. The oil is sold through an energy marketer, which sells the crude to oil refiners to produce gasoline and other products. The gas is used to generate electricity.
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