[Stoves] FW: Announcement of the IIEA-Project Gaia Appropriate Scale Alcohol Fuel Production Seminar -- Global Solution for Cooking, etc.

Erin Rasmussen erin at trmiles.com
Tue Nov 2 12:39:09 CDT 2010


The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA) and Project
Gaia
invite you to attend the

The Appropriate-scale Alcohol Fuel Production Seminar:
Global Solutions for Cooking, Refrigeration, Electricity and Transport

Monday, November 29 - Thursday, December 2, 2010
Embassy Suites, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

(See the announcement:
http://www.bioenergylists.org/content/appropriate-scale-alcohol-fuel )

The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA) and Project
Gaia cordially invite you to attend a seminar focused on the global
production and use of appropriate-scale alcohol fuel. Alcohol fuels offer an
abundant supply of energy for cooking, heating, refrigeration, electricity
and transportation needs.

Worldwide, over three billion people lack access to modern forms of energy
and cook with traditional stoves that burn polluting fuels. Illnesses
resulting from indoor air pollution claim almost 2 million lives worldwide
each year. In many parts of the world pneumonia in infants and small
children is the primary cause of death, and evidence links kitchen smoke to
chronic bronchitis in women, low birth-weight in children, active TB, and
many other ailments. Clean-burning stoves and alcohol fuels can dramatically
change these statistics.

During the 3½ day educational seminar, participants will gain an in-depth
understanding of ways to:

    * Provide pollution-free energy for safe indoor cooking and other uses
    * Stabilize domestic fuel production costs to less than 30 cents/liter
(USD)
    * Curb deforestation, black carbon emissions and global warming—while
earning carbon credits
    * Integrate domestic food and energy production
    * Identify high-value, high-yield crops for all climates to produce
sustainable energy and increase soil fertility
    * Create and encourage permanent local jobs
    * Learn about micro distillery manufacturing investment and distribution
opportunities and how to couple stoves with distilleries

Registration for this unique program is limited and “invitation only”. The
seminar is ideally suited to the information needs of government and NGO
officials, energy, agriculture, public health, economic and environmental
policy makers, secondary and university educators, labor leaders, motor
fleet and facility supervisors, climate policy experts, infrastructure
investment bankers, waste water treatment managers and domestic food
production professionals.

Seminar Registration is $700.00 USD per participant
To book your room reservation, please use (
http://embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/groups/personalized/A/ATLLXES-IEG-2010
1128/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG ) or call 404-261-7733
Group Name: The Intl’ Institute for Ecological Agriculture - Group Code: IEG

For program details, venue logistics or to register, please contact:
Tom Harvey/ IIEA: +01 (530) 257-3533 at thcommunications at gmail.com Brady
Luceno/ Project Gaia: +1 (717) 334-5594 at bluceno at projectgaia.com
Find IIEA at www.permaculture.com and Project Gaia at www.projectgaia.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Stokes [mailto:hstokesoffice at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 6:31 PM
To: 'Tom Miles'
Cc: Joe Obueh (PG); 'Brady Luceno'; 'Gulce Askin'
Subject: Announcement of the IIEA-Project Gaia Appropriate Scale Alcohol
Fuel Production Seminar -- Global Solution for Cooking, etc.

Dear Tom,

Would you kindly put the attached announcement of the Atlanta seminar on the
Bioenergy Listserv?  That would be terrific if you would.

The announcement is the first attachment.  The second attachment is provided
to show you what types of topics will be covered by David Blume of IIEA.

David is author of the best-selling book "Alcohol Can Be a Gas" which is a
great read, and also a technical storehouse of knowledge.  Not only is the
book really fun to read, it is also the most valuable resource on small
scale distillation--and maybe distillation science in general--that I have
ever encountered.  It is a great achievement.

If you know of anywhere else we should announce this, please let us know.

David Blume and a core team of developers are raising capital for a business
that will essentially mass produce small, efficient, simple but highly
engineered micro distilleries.  These distilleries will be produced for
maybe half the cost or less of a large distillery, on a unit cost basis, and
the economics of ethanol production from these plants, especially
considering the value of co-products, will be enormously good.

We hope to put these micro distilleries to use in Africa and Haiti.  We are
being inundated with interest in the idea.  A number of West Africans are
already signed up for the Atlanta seminar.  We would like to draw in some
people from Central America as well.

David and his team are raising investment capital for the plant, and are
putting out a private placement offer for purchase of shares in the
business.  They have a detailed prospectus that could go out to seriously
interested investors.

Would you be interested?  Or do you know others who might be?  If you are or
do, I will send you a one-page prospectus introduction and information on
how to contact Blume Distillation LLC. This is not for the Listserv, but
just for you and people you would pass it on to one-on-one.

Best wishes,

Harry

P.S. We are looking for a briquetting and biochar expert for the Haiti
project, and I was in touch with Lloyd Helferty, some time back.  This would
have to be a group or business that would be able to come in and piggyback
on what we are doing, without needing to draw resources from us--e.g. a team
member that could pull their own weight.



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