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- I am an investor in Pearson Technology, Inc (PTI) and Pearson BioEnergy, Inc. which uses “green energy” to fuel power plants and other facilities. We have the technology and low cost process for producing synthetic gas (“syn-gas”) with no greenhouse gas emissions.
With today’s urgent economic need for biomass-driven energy, it is our goal to provide the technology and process to produce fuel for power plants or other industrial facilities in areas where biomass is plentiful.
Through our technology, we can manufacture synthetic gas, including synthetic diesel and gasoline and ethanol from biomass (agriculture waste, urban waste, forest and landscape waste, cattle and chicken waste, wood products waste, and municipal waste) using a thermo-chemical steam reforming and catalytic conversion process.
The flexibility of our process in using a wide variety of feed stocks enables the thermo-chemical production of fuel ethanol while simultaneously solving the problem of incineration of biomass wastes.
Fischer-Tropsch facilities made idle by the high cost of natural gas can be converted to ethanol production with the expenditure of reasonable amounts of capital to retrofit them. Check out our technology used at the following website www.gulfcoastenergy.com.
Please contact George Johnson, Director of Business Development at 817-296-4710 or Stan Pearson, Research Chemical Engineer at 225-768-9974 for more information concerning our technology.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- This has been a long time coming! When I watched "Back to The Future" and the Professor used a banana peel and beer (no can) to fuel his flying car, it wasn't just Hollywood vision, it was and is proven technology. At the time of this movie Americans were not ready to get off the CHEAP gasoline and didn't consider anything "green" such as synthetic gasoline! Now that it hurts their budgets, most people are finally ready to support all sorts of alternatives!
- What do you want to do to help?
- Just let me know what I can do to help! We are ready to show the world our technology. It works and its here to stay! We are technical partners to Gulf Coast Energy, Inc. Check out our technology at www.gulfcoastenergy.net. Then give us a call so we can help promote the PickensPlan. We hope that you will consider giving us a look so we can not only make it happen in Texas, but the USA and the world.
George Johnson, Director of Business Development - Syn-Gas Technology, PTI and Pearson BioEnergy, Inc. 817-296-4710 or Stan Pearson, Research Engineer 225-768-9974.
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Daryl,
I think ETT Technology is a welcomed idea for the near future. However, until the idea of ETT has been accepted by the masses, your technology will be at a stand still for years. The technology of biomass to syn-fuels has been successfully proven and used since WWII by the Germans. This technology was placed in archieves and not revisited until the 1970's. For the past 10 plus years, with a few slight changes, American and the world can use this "zero" emmissions to our envirnonment, synt… Continue
I think ETT Technology is a welcomed idea for the near future. However, until the idea of ETT has been accepted by the masses, your technology will be at a stand still for years. The technology of biomass to syn-fuels has been successfully proven and used since WWII by the Germans. This technology was placed in archieves and not revisited until the 1970's. For the past 10 plus years, with a few slight changes, American and the world can use this "zero" emmissions to our envirnonment, synt… Continue
Posted on August 5, 2008 at 5:39am —
Syn-gas should be considered as a viable alternative!
I am an investor in "syn-gas" technology! Our company has been in the business of researching and developing synthetic gas and fuels for over 10 years with Pearson Technology, Inc. and Pearson BioEnergy, Inc. We are the developers and distributors of proven technology that produces “green energy” to fuel power plants and other industrial facilities.
We have the technology and low cost process for producing synthetic gas (“syn-gas”) with no greenhouse gas emissions. This "syn-gas" can be convert… Continue
We have the technology and low cost process for producing synthetic gas (“syn-gas”) with no greenhouse gas emissions. This "syn-gas" can be convert… Continue
Posted on July 18, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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Happy New Year George,
Last year I helped so many members of Pickens Plan learn about personal home energy plans. It's all about conservation of power, and home power generation, things I have been doing at my residence to lower my electricity costs. Send me a friend request a to add me George, I'd be honored to have you as a friend here.
BTW, Texas: I just posted an article link on my pickens page about Home Wind Systems in Texas. Your state's representatives, governor, and public utility commission officials are not in your corner with this "weak policy" on Net Metering. Instead they have the tables turned against green power for businesses and homeowners. Texas has created multiple sets of rules for loopholes and you have less rights than people in other states. You should read that article, important.
Stan Pearson, Pearson Technology, Inc. was with Dow Chemical for 35 years. He owns 10 patents with Dow, and has one new patent, and two pending on his technology. If your contact wants more information concerning PTI and Stan Pearson, Chemical Engineer/Research Scientist, please have him forward his information through you. Thanks for "acting on your beliefs!"
George Johnson, PTI
& see what he thinks. (Dupont has always tried to be on the cutting edge, & they certainly have
the infrastructure to get into this fairly quickly if they want to.)
Thank you for your clear and easily understood explanations of this "new" process. I'm very interested!
TRANSPORTATION is the master key to basic survival, and the cornerstone of the economy. We all know that transportation presently depends on oil production, and oil production is peaking. We must focus first on transportation – it is the highest priority. The PickensPlan to transition vehicles to natural gas is a great start toward 100% energy independence, but is a stop-gap measure till we can transition to all electric transportation. Electric energy is strained without adding transportation demands; so we must drastically improve efficiency .
Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is a patented technology where travel occurs without air friction or rolling resistance (like “Space Travel on Earth”); ETT can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh (or carbon credit) than electric cars or trains. ETT is silent, low cost, safe, faster than jets, and is electric so it can make maximum use of wind or PV power. I invite you to visit my page to learn more about ETT
FROM TOM CASEY'S MEETING IN NEW YORK -
Stage I-Ultra Clean Coal to Hydrogen-Fired Gas Power Plant:
- Coal converted to hydrogen gas for use in on site base load/peaker gas turbines
- CO2 separated/piped to Stage II-for conversion to Cellulosic fuels
Stage II-Ultra High Yield/Low Cost Cellulosic Fuel Plant:
Feedstocks: Process Steps - Output:
Non-Food Agricultural crops/Residues - 1. Gasification To Syngas - Cellulosic/Non-Petroleum: Gasoline, Municipal Solid Waste/Yard Waste; 2. Catalytic Conversion to Fuel - Ethanol / Diesel; 3. Forestry/Lumber/ Wood Waste - Heating Oil
Gross Fuel Yield: 230-280 Gallons/Ton Feedstock depending on Feedstock/Output
Production Cost: $0.75/Gallon
The Quantum Clean Energy Complex, to be presented to the public here for the first time, combines a coal to hydrogen gas power plant and a cellulosic fuel plant into a fully integrated, closed end system that produces electricity with ultra low carbon/ultra low pollution, and a full range of cellulosic liquid fuels including cellulosic gasoline, diesel, ethanol, methanol, butanol and home heating oil.
The front end of the plant is an ultra-clean power plant which takes in the full range of coal types, and through a 12-step conversion process that uses a wholly new arrangement of previously proven technologies, converts the coal into hydrogen and a separate stream of carbon dioxide (CO2). The hydrogen drives a gas turbine which produces clean power with nearly zero pollution, as well as residual carbon dioxide, for sale either to area utilities or to regional power markets. The fully separated carbon dioxide stream is then piped to the back end of the plant and combined with cellulose from municipal solid waste and non-food agricultural biomass for conversion to any of several liquid fuels, or heating oil.
The back end of the plant is an ultra high yield cellulosic fuel plant which takes in a full range of agricultural cash crops and crop residues, forestry and lumber waste, municipal solid waste (including yard waste and wood waste), which first goes through gasification to syngas. The syngas is then mixed with the CO2 which was separated from the coal. The newly combined syngas then goes through a first round of catalytic conversion where it is converted (with 99% efficiency) to methanol. From methanol, a second round of catalytic conversion can produce any of several highly valued transportation and heating fuels: cellulosic gasoline; diesel, ethanol, butanol or heating oil.
Because the CO2 from the power plant provides up to 30-40% or more of the total feedstock that is converted to fuel, the CO2 greatly increases the overall fuel yield of the plant, and greatly reduces its overall production cost. That factor, combined with the extraordinary speed of gasification (vs. enzymes, anaerobic fermentation, or acid hydrolysis), and the near 100% energy conversion rate of catalytic conversion vs. those other processes, greatly increase the overall fuel-to-feedstock gross yield and dramatically reduces its production cost per gallon, e.g. cellulosic gasoline @ $0.75/gallon vs. petroleum based gasoline @ approximately $2.00/gallon and cellulosic ethanol @ $0.75/gallon vs. corn-based ethanol at over $2.00/gallon.
This process can also be modified to produce cellulosic butanol, an advanced alcohol fuel with many advantages over conventional ethanol. Butanol is a far superior fuel to ethanol but has always been very expensive to produce (currently $4.00-5.00/gallon and sold for $6.00-7.00/gallon), as thus far too high to ever be used as a fuel. But with the Quantum process, it can be made for only $1.00/gallon which would make its use as a fuel economically viable.
Tom Casey, President & CEO, will explain how, in addition to producing electric power and cellulosic fuels, these facilities will have the ability to take in and dispose of the carbon dioxide generated by outside sources, thus becoming the first commercial carbon sink. Acting much like a solid waste landfill, they will be able to receive and dispose of the carbon dioxide now being generated by other facilities, i.e. conventional coal-fired power plants (each ton of coal emits up to three tons of CO2)/oil refineries, etc. This unique capability would make carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) completely unnecessary. Our plants would simply take in the CO2 and charge a carbon disposal fee equal to what carbon emissions will soon cost. The main profit potential would come from catalytically converting that CO2 into cellulosic fuels. From each ton of CO2 we could produce approximately 230-280 gallons of fuel. If we were producing diesel from that CO2 and selling it for $3.00 a gallon-we would generate $750-900 per ton of CO2 (plus a disposal fee) or $2,250-$2,700.for each ton of coal used in a power plant. With little to no expense involved in converting that CO2 to fuel, this could be a major profit center for these facilities.
The process has been proven on a pilot plant with over 8,000 hours (almost a full year) of continuous, reliable performance, converting a wide range of cellulosic feedstocks, including corn stover, sugarcane bagasse, rice/wheat hulls, woodchips, classified municipal solid waste and others, to ethanol with a gross yield of 278 gallons of ethanol per ton of feedstock-four times the yield of other processes currently being used, and did so at an average production cost of $0.75/gallon vs. nearly three times that of most other production processes. The catalytic conversion processes were further tested/proved in a 50-ton/day small-scale commercial demonstration plant in Aberdeen, MS. (PTI Technology)
The company anticipates raising $30 to $50 million in equity and debt this summer. The process is patented, although the component pieces are all well established.
Technology Expert: Calling in from Louisiana will be Stanley Pearson, Research Scientist, who was responsible for several parts of this process, will elaborate on the various technologies involved.
If you had some investors that were interested in constructing their own plant, using local and/or regional biomass, then they may want to contact Pearson Technology, Inc. and take the next step to securing investors, financing, site location and contract biomass for the production of syn-fuels. Thank you for your interest.