DOE report on NH3 as fuel

Someone recently sent me this paper and the comments from Sandia.  It appears that in the original paper that the authors wre so single mindedly focused on finding  a solution for fuel sources for PEM fuel cells that they missed the bigger opportunity entirely – using NH3 in ICEs.  The Sandia letter comes to the same conclusion. Interesting.

How do we get DOE (or USDA) interested in looking at this seriously?

Click here to download:
nh3_paper.pdf (517 KB)
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Click here to download:
On_NH3_roles_in_H2_economy.pdf (98 KB)
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SynGest News: Cleantech Open 2010 Selected SynGest As Semifinalist

SynGest Inc.

Cleantech Open

SynGest Inc. (www.SynGest.com) was named as a semifinalist in the Cleantech Open 2010 business plan competition for the North Central region in the General category.  The team entered its plan to convert non-food biomass into carbon-negative nitrogen fertilizer and advanced biofuels in its SynGest Cornucopia BioRefinery.

The entire management team is thrilled to have been honored as a semifinalist.

About the Cleantech Open

The Cleantech Open is the world's largest cleantech business competition. Its mission is to find, fund and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today's most urgent energy, environmental and economic challenges. The program provides the infrastructure, expertise and strategic relationships to turn clever ideas into successful global cleantech companies. Since 2006, through its one-of-a-kind annual business competition and mentorship program, the Cleantech Open has enabled hundreds of clean technology startups to bring their breakthrough ideas to fruition, helped alumni contestants raise over $260M, and created an estimated 1,200 green collar jobs. Fueled by a network of more than 600 volunteers and sponsors, the Cleantech Open unites the public and private sectors in a shared vision for making America's cleantech sector a thriving economic engine. For more information, visit www.cleantechopen.com, and follow @cleantechopen on Twitter.

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Jack Oswald, CEO
SynGest Inc.
www.SynGest.com

 

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Please call your Senators to tell them to go for a comprehensive energy and climate bill NOW!

On Thu June 17, the Senate Democrats will hold a caucus meeting and
decide whether they will go for a comprehensive energy and climate
bill this year. There is concern that there aren't 60 votes and they
don't want to have a failed attempt. We should have them go for it.
NOW is the time. We cannot wait any longer. I am confident that once
they get started they will succeed.

Please call your Senators, and any other Senate Democrats that you
know of, and tell their offices that you want them to GO FOR IT!

http://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

SynGest News: SynGest Cornucopia BioRefinery Chronicled in BiofuelsDigest

SynGest Inc.

SynGest Inc.'s Cornucopia BioRefinery approach was chronicled in Biofuels Digest today.  The full article can be viewed here:

SynGest Cornucopia BioRefinery at BiofuelsDigest

A synopsis from BiofuelsDigest:

In California, SynGest CEO Jack Oswald updates the Digest readership on the Cornucopia biorefinery model, outlined earlier this year in a Digest Top Story on "energy abundance". "We have also had great reception at USDA with Vilsack's Sr. Advisor corp. and on Capitol Hill.  In fact, I have been asked to present to the U.S. House of Representatives House Agriculture Committee Staff...The committee specifically wants us to address the Cornucopia model because it is the first integrated BioRefinery processing approach that has the potential to replicate and scale quickly enough to allow the U.S. to achieve all of the RFS2 production goals within the timeframe available."

Jack Oswald, CEO
SynGest Inc.
www.SynGest.com