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Comment by J Jay Pirko 14 hours ago

Notice to Entrepreneurs in the New Energy Economy:

ADVANCED-ENERGY BUSINESS INCUBATOR IN WARREN, OHIO

The Youngstown-Warren Ohio region (in northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania) is a hotbed for Green Energy technology and business opportunity.

The Youngstown Business Journal published this article, another example of their outstanding business news coming from the Youngstown region. (I strongly recommend subscribing to the Youngstown Business Journal daily news broadcasts, and in-depth printed newspaper.)

- James Jay Pirko
OH-17 District Leader


NorTech to Help Launch Warren Incubator
-- 12/15/2009
Dec. 22, 2009 6:48 a.m.
By Dennis LaRue
WARREN, Ohio -- Possessed of a vision and fortified with $2.7 million in federal and state grants and another $1.7 million in private funding, a steering committee of 26 will, over the next 10 months, work toward the birth of an advanced-energy business incubator downtown.

Midwife to this birth is Rebecca O. Bagley, president and CEO of NorTech, a consulting firm based in downtown Cleveland whose tagline is “Growing Northeast Ohio’s High Tech Economy.”

Bagley, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-17 Ohio, state Sen. Capri Cafaro, D-32 Hubbard, state Rep. Tom Letson, D-64 Warren, and Mayor Michael O’Brien, outlined their vision Monday of what such an incubator might achieve in the fields of “advanced energy and flexible materials.”

Long on optimism and short on specifics, the four expressed hope the incubator will rejuvenate manufacturing in Mahoning Valley through infant enterprises that one day produce parts for windmills, geothermal, solar and nuclear energy plants and sources of energy other than petroleum, coal and natural gas.

“Four hundred tons of steel go into a windmill,” Ryan noted.

Bagley offered a number of people she expects would be employed in the incubator -- “50 to 70 jobs” – rather the number of companies that would be housed there.

“We have done some market testing,” she said later, reporting that “450 firms” in the region are interested.

The incubator is incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that will be funded by both the public and private sectors.

The site of the incubator, whether it will be a converted building or a brand-new structure, and its design all must be worked out, to be determined by the steering committee that includes “nine CEOs or CEO-level executives,” Bagley said.

Mike Garvey, president of M 7 Technologies, Youngstown, and William Letson, president of the Trumbull 100, were present at yesterday’s press event in Ryan’s Warren office. So, too, were leaders from organized labor such as Gary Steinbeck, Sub-District 1 director of the United Steel Workers of America, and Mark Catello, business manager of Local 573 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Tony Iarusso, executive director of Warren Redevelopment and Planning, “will be involved,” O’Brien promised.

“Our role is facilitation,” Bagley said, “walking the steering committee through the process.”

The steering committee will look closely at the Youngstown Business Incubator, which Ryan called “a successful model [that will help the committee] avoid landmines.” He praised its success, noting it has earned national attention and, he hopes, the Warren incubator will too.

O’Brien voiced great optimism about the incubator, which in conjunction with the main campus of Eastern Gateway Community College to be established in Warren, should boost his city’s economy. Bagley and Ryan expect a partnership will develop between the community college and incubator.

“From North Park [Avenue] to Main Street,” O’Brien predicted, “within the next year, all [vacant buildings] will be filled.”

After nearly 30 years of neglect from Washington and Columbus, he rejoiced in the funding for the incubator and the development of the community college campus.

O’Brien pronounced himself “thoroughly impressed by the connectivity” of the Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio Senate and Congress that allowed the public funding of the incubator.

Before founding NorTech, Bagley served as deputy secretary for the Technology Investment Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development under Gov. Ed Rendell, says the biography provided by NorTech. There she “was responsible for the administration of several major state programs and initiatives, including the Life Sciences Greenhouse Initiative, the Ben Franklin Technology Partners, the Keystone Innovation Zone program, the research and development tax credit program and the manufacturing strategy.”

In that role, she managed “more than $1.7 billion in investments for Pennsylvania.”

Before that she was an investment banker in New York City where she was involved in oil and gas mergers and raising capital for various energy ventures.

She earned her baccalaureate in marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Copyright 2009 The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.

Comment by Arno Lundin on January 8, 2009 at 1:55pm

Algea fuel if no natural water eco system is dissrupted

Comment by Dawn on January 8, 2009 at 1:40pm

What would you people invest your money in right now...
ALGEA Fuel
Synthetic Fuels made of animal and bio fat waste
Ground Oil
Natural Gas
coal

Comment by Arno Lundin on December 15, 2008 at 12:56pm

Cool goverment has approved to fund 50% of building costs for purelignin.com Front end bio refinery. This technology is what we are licensing and implementing.
W are waiting to hear if that funding includes any liscencee's which we imagine it will.
We continue to seek private funding interested parties may contact me any time.
Process developed by purelignin.com reduces polution to near 0, deliver's higher quality product and reduces energy consumption for existing producers as well as provides side stream revenues one of which is generation of ectricity, ehtanols, and bio plastics etc. DOE reported in 2005 that this type of technology was needed for many industries if they were to remain viable. Coincidentally when this report came out the technology was in the patent office getting approved. Hard to grasp the big picture but I feel the technology will allow for many things that were not possible due to high cost of production to now be possible. This may be so large a market that I feel it will dominate the nowt new economy of Renewable's.

Comment by Arno Lundin on December 2, 2008 at 12:35am

http://www.greencarsite.co.uk/econews/honda-fc-sport-concept.htm

hmm bio plastic structure
We do not make the parts but we manufacture the ingredients to make the bio plastic parts possible.
new venture. patented. capital needed.

Comment by Arno Lundin on November 22, 2008 at 11:39am

www.purelignin.com go here and see what the base of the next economy will be.

Comment by Arno Lundin on November 13, 2008 at 12:41pm

Seeking Investment capital for renewable energy mill already patented. Non- Polluting. 0 emission. Market research done. Customers waiting for production. Need Money to build mill. Aprox. 2mill. us. Return to be negotiated.
can make jet fuel

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Comment by jay on October 13, 2008 at 3:34pm

How T. Boone Pickens and The "Pickens Plan" Could Make You Rich By Investing in Green Stocks

T. Boone Pickens owns 40% of a company called Clean Energy Fuels Corp. ( NASDAQ:CLNE ). This is a company that provides natural gas for vehicle fleets in the U.S. and Canada. CLNE designs, builds, finances, and operates the fueling stations.

T. Boone Pickens owns 12% of Westport Innovations, Inc. ( NASDAQ:WPRT ) a leading developer of environmental technologies that enable vehicles to operate on clean-burning alternative fuels.

WRPT works with global automotive leaders such as Cummins Inc., Ford, and BMW to incorporate their technologies into leading manufacturers engines and to explore future commercial opportunities for clean vehicles.

Pickens’ new company, Mesa Water, has been buying up ground water rights in Roberts County, Texas - 200,000 acres in all. He says that over a 30-year period, he expects to make more than $1 billion on his investment of $75 million.

Many others are coming to the realization that water is too cheap. Hence, water rights are a great buy today.

As an individual investor, you can’t trade water rights very easily. But you can invest in a company that owns almost as much water as Pickens does – in actuality, the acre feet that this Company owns are more valuable than what Pickens purchased.

PICO Holdings, Inc., ( NASDAQ:PICO ) together with its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and development of real estate properties. It owns land and the related mineral rights and water rights in Nevada. The company is involved in water resource development business, such as developing new sources of water for water utilities, municipalities, developers, or industrial users. In addition, PICO Holdings engages in the acquisition and financing of businesses. It operates in the United States and Europe. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in La Jolla, California.

T. Boone Pickens thinks he'll earn $1 billion on his $76 million investment - or basically 13 times his money. PICO - already in this business, with substantial expertise and a portfolio of more valuable water rights - could do even better.

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Comment by Bruce Eric Montgomery on September 9, 2008 at 9:44pm

Top Private Companies Recognized for Leadership in Green Technology and Global Business Potential

AlwaysOn GoingGreen 2008

SAN FRANCISCO----AlwaysOn today announced its coveted GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies Awards and named Synthetic Genomics as the GoingGreen Overall Winner. Other category winners were Amyris Biotechnologies in Biofuels, CoalTek in Clean Energy, GlycosBio in Clean Manufacturing, Silver Spring Networks in Energy Efficiency, Premium Power in Energy Storage, EcoMotors in Green Transportation, Serious Materials in Green Materials, Genomatica in Green Nanotech & Synthetic Genomics, Ze-Gen in Resource Recovery & Waste Management, BrightSource Energy in Solar Energy, and AbTech Industries in Water Technology.

The second-annual elite GoingGreen 100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the GoingGreen 100 list, companies had to be peer-nominated, with AlwaysOn receiving more than 500 nominations from venture investors, investment bankers and other industry experts.

"The GoingGreen 100 companies will accelerate the global movement to a more sustainable environment," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "The ideas and innovation we saw as we reviewed hundreds of green technology companies will be foundational to the next wave of economic growth in California and beyond. My congratulations to each GoingGreen 100 winner — these are the companies which we predict will have the greatest market traction, strongest innovation and most game-changing approaches this year."

Overall Winner Synthetic Genomics was born out of decades of pioneering scientific research by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. and Nobel Laureate Hamilton O. Smith, M.D. The company's scientific team includes leading researchers with expertise in areas including metabolic engineering, microbiology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, plant genomics, climate change and energy policies.

“We are proud to present our top honors to Synthetic Genomics after seeing the implications of the company’s technology and the scope of their business,” said Tony Perkins. “Synthetic Genomics represents a deeply disruptive breakthrough in genomic-driven environment solutions. It is bound to play an important role in addressing global energy challenges.”

The GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies for 2008 will be honored at GoingGreen to be held at Cavallo Point, San Francisco from September 15-17. GoingGreen is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant impact green technologies have on new economic growth and in sustainable use of natural resources. The idea behind the GoingGreen 100 top private companies list is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the clean technology industry.

A full list of all the GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies can be found on the AlwaysOn website at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/28868

About GoingGreen

GoingGreen is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth. Green technology innovators are transforming the global energy, water, agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing, and resource recovery establishments. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities.

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