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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zardiw: [QB] From RB: By: mike6491 14 Jan 2007, 03:57 PM EST Msg. 3816 of 3817 Jump to msg. # Regarding USSEC and John Rivera, I am new to this forum which I discovered this morning due to a google search and have been reading the past several hundred posts. I am a scientist/inventor with 9 worldwide technology patents and have employed more than 450 people in the US and Australia manufacturing my inventions. Since 2001 I have been involved in small business development work for a non-profit Community Development Corporation and as a consultant to alt fuels/vehicles companies. I drive a diesel car powered by 100% waste vegetable oil, and was recently preparing to open a plant to crush canola or rapeseed in the Eastern US in collaboration with farmer owned corporations farming 2.4 million acres of canola and a farmer owned coop producing $17,000,000 of agricultural feeds a year. The former were my suppliers and the latter were customers for canola meal, a by-product of canola seed crushing used in animal feeds. When canola ran up to $8.70+ CAN from $5.65 CAN, I put my plans on hold. I then saw a google alert on USSEC, watched the video, did a little bit of research and bought 2,000 shares on a whim. I then called John Rivera because of his commitment to community development and the disadvantaged and presented him with some ideas relating to that part of his mission. He invited me to Mississippi and paid my way. Here is my take on this: 1. I spent two days with John who I see as a very sincere man surrounded by employees who think very highly of him and who are very dedicated to what could be a world changing mission. As a fellow inventor, I know the years of extraordinary dedication, persistence, and even fanaticism that it takes to turn a dream into reality. Years of forward steps then backsteps, then more forward and back at all costs can be looked at as either foolish and questionable or as heroic. The life of Charles Goodyear is a perfect example. I think John is very, very likely a hero. He has too much invested in time and money for USSEC to be a scam. I admire and like this man. 2. I personally witnessed the process and saw 20 pounds of soybean go into a small scale reactor which produced more than 1.6 gallons of liquid biofuel, a flammable gas I saw flared off, and a good amount of soyash fertilizer. I watched his employees mix the same biofuel 50/50 with gasoline, diesel, and biodiesel which then powered a Detroit Diesel motor, a diesel genset, a 2 stroke dirt bike, 4 stroke 4 wheeler and a lawnmower. I touched the exhaust manifold of the DD motor which was about 150 degrees F after more then 10 minutes of operation. You can watch the video on the USSEC site to see much of what I witnessed personally. I saw the full size 65 foot long prototype reactor as well. 3. I visited the new Natchez facility, saw the enormous building, massive rail and barge capacities, tank farm, some interim storage facilities for grain, the pieces of more production reactors readied for assembly and met more USSEC personnel including Kelmer Smith, Alex Machedo, Gerald Brent and others. All are very sincere and capable individuals. 4. Some posts question the potential profitability of the operation. I know Cargill, ADM, and Bunge do very well squeezing 2.8 gallons of canola from a 51 pound bushel and selling the 35 pounds of canola meal at $.07CAN per pound and oil at $2.40+-CAN per gallon. That was in June 06 when canola seed was $5.88CAN per bu. Despite increases in canola to $8.70 CAN, these companies have recently announced major capitalization for new or expanded plants to increase capacities by 50% to 100% to supply the biodiesel industry. This vegetable oil must then be transported to other buyer's facilities and reprocessed using heat, toxic methanol and caustic lye to produce transesterfied vegetable oil (B100 biodiesel) plus hazardous glycerine and a toxic methanol/graywater mixture. USSEC's process has no hazardous inputs or by-products and creates 5 gallons of ready to use biofuel per bushel of soy (as I understand it, canola yields even more using the Rivera Process)and considering the expense reductions by using biogas for heating the process,not to mention the production of 20 pounds of fertilizer, this is a highly profitable business even if the fertilizer were to be sold as low as $.05 to $.10 per pound instead of the $.30 market price indicated in another post. 5. As to questions of BTU out vs BTU in, a previous post correctly shows the dry matter in soy to be 10,230 BTU per pound. I would add that soybeans can have about 10.25% water or 6.15 pounds of water per bushel. The water has .77 pounds of hydrogen at 82,000 BTU's per pound equal to 63,000 BTU from H2 plus 550,885 BTU's from soy dry matter = almost 614,000 BTU's. This does not include the BTU value of any elemental hydrogen which may result due to de-polymerization of the carbohydrates in the soybean dry matter or oil. My point is that due to the somewhat unknown nature of these types of reactions, one cannot use simple math to determine energy input/output equations. 6. Emissions concerns: Because I have not seen an emissions profile yet, I have questions too. However, I do understand the emission profiles of diesel, biodiesel, and pure vegetable oils and have been working closely with the EPA and my state Department of Environmental Protection in my alt fuels consulting work. Based on the lab analysis of USSEC biofuels, I believe that all emissions would be lower than ASTM D975 diesel fuel or ASTM D396 heating oil. If I am wrong, it could be in the areas of particulates or NOx. In the case of the former, filters would suffice and in the latter, well known SCR based technologies now used in coal burning power plants as well as the new Mercedes 380 diesel auto could reduce NOx by 90% to 95%, well within standards. The final positive factors on EPA regulated emissions for USSEC fuel is that it contains virtually no sulfur compounds thus eliminates production of acid rain and sulfur based carcinogens. 7.USSEC's marketing plan calling for electrical generation is brilliant in that once you do a rather straightforward test of emissions on a particular turbine generator, you are done and can build a large number of generation facilities using that turbine. (This holds true to a lesser degree for oil burners because there are more of them in service, but some of them use thousands of gallons an hour of diesel oil to heat manufacturing operations.) Avoiding the automotive market for the moment saves the time required to pass EPA emissions tests on a large number of engines of various engine families when trying to market a new auto fuel. 8. Up to now, I have been discussing profits from making and selling biofuels. When you consider green tags, Renewable Energy Certificates, green electricity credits, you find the real gravy. When you factor in the federal and regional government mandates for municipalities, state office buildings, power plants, etc to reduce CO2 emissions and switch to renewables, you can see even more potential for income. There is not enough biofuel available to meet future government imposed mandates and anyone who can generate a watt, power a burner, provide biofuel to a coal burning power plant or help meet other applications will be in a great position. If you can do this cheaper than other alternatives like ethanol or biodiesel, then all the better. 9. The CO2 Factor. Much more important, is the CO2 situation, and this is monumental. USSEC biofuel does not add global warming gases to the environment because the CO2 emitted by the burning biofuel is the same CO2 the plant absorbed when it was growing. The USSEC soyash fertilizer from one bushel of soy contains 80% carbon weighing 16 pounds. This means that when you burn the USSEC fuel and return the USSEC fertilizer to the earth, you prevent the emissions of 112 lbs of carbon from displaced fossil based diesel fuels and return 16 pounds to the carbon sink (the Earth). This actually "reverses" global warming by removing or preventing excessive carbon in the atmosphere and returns nutrients to the soil. Considering that CO2 is now 380 ppm and 250ppm would be closer to normal, USSEC's use of one bushel of soy or canola would "remediate" 8.55 million cubic feet of atmosphere by eliminating the amount of carbon that would cause that amount of air from going to 380 ppm from 250 ppm. This is not on the front burner in the US yet, but in Europe, you pay a tax for the amount of carbon you put into the atmosphere. This will happen in the US within a few years. USSEC eliminates that expense for users of its fuels. As global warming produces more definable and frightening effects, this will become a very important advantage of the USSEC fuel or electricity. Well, I've said more than my fair share. I just had to chime in because I see some questionable chatter from folks who never had to live a day in the life of the John Rivera's, Charles Goodyear's or other innovators who suffer considerably and risk everything every minute of their day to see a dream become reality. Their enormous personal sacrifices plus sometimes backbreaking work with friends and employees just may produce results and change the world if not save it. It is this sacrifice for a possible success that enables traders in air conditioned offices or at home in their bathrobes to make paper profits on the whims of the market. Yes, you may sense a bit of disdain for speculation over innovation so I'll say I do realize speculation and investment is important if not essential. It will be to our mutual benefit when USSEC, SPC, John Rivera, and the people around him succeed. Mother Earth is loosing her patience and if the near past is any indication of the near future, she will soon become outright angry. And if she stays angry too long, we'll all be sucking wind if there is any left. When I came home from my visit I bought another 5,000 shares of USSEC and decided to do everything I can to help John Rivera and USSEC succeed. And that, I believe, is imminent. Best wishes to all of you for a healthy future. (To comply with the terms and conditions of this forum I should probably affirm that the above is my opinion from personal experience and I do not present it as anything other than my opinion. It is submitted without the current knowledge of John Rivera or anyone associated with him.) =============================================== Nice to have some independent verification..........z [/QB][/QUOTE]
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