<html><head><base href="x-msg://315/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Very Big ditto!<div><br><div> I could use a couple of those research/grant bucks to make real jobs and energy in paradise.</div><div>Hawaii will have the most robust alternative energy market in years to come and even an ethanol plant could ween us off $7 bill fossil fuels a year.</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Luke Gardner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue" bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">MARK,</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">glad to see I was not the only one disgusted by this,, that is untill this evening when I realised what was the fundamental fault or "techical problem they encountered". they were using bundles of us dollars in the reactor as the bio feedstock, and made as much deisel and ethonal as they could till the money ran out. you know its a technical problem!</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">luke</font></div><blockquote style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="mark@ludlow.com" href="mailto:mark@ludlow.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Mark Ludlow</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org" href="mailto:gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, January 24, 2011 8:11 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant</div><div><br></div><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 4pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Sounds a little like, "Back to the drawing board."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 4pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">There is some critical scale for pilot-development that helps to reduce the risk of up-scaling. Duh! If RF had dropped $10MM, people would be startled. But $300MM? It's literally unbelievable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 4pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">There must have been a bunch of golf weekends at St. Andrews included on the tab. Wow! A (RAT)HOLE-in-one.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 4pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Magic happens; now watch us make nearly 1/3 Billion U$D disappear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 4pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-right-width: medium; border-right-style: none; border-right-color: initial; padding-right: 0in; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-style: solid; padding-left: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; border-left-width: medium; border-left-style: none; border-left-color: initial; padding-top: 3pt; border-bottom-width: medium; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Viswanathan KS<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, January 24, 2011 7:13 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; ">Does it mean that Range Fuels have still unsolved problems in their Cellulosic Ethanol process?<o:p></o:p></p><div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Tom Miles <<a href="mailto:tmiles@trmiles.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">tmiles@trmiles.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div><div><div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><a href="http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/21755" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/21755</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><o:p></o:p></div><p style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">"Cellulosic ethanol company Range Fuels is closing its Soperton, Georgia facility after completing it first batch of ethanol, according to story posted by Georgia Public Broadcasting.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; 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