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

Tue Nov 9 08:38:14 CST 2010

Thank you for this invitation. I actually could not attend the seminar but I
am interested to know the detail about the alcohol. Is that the alcohol that
poor people could produce it? What are ingredients to make this alcohol? I
need to know if the poor community could produce this alcohol? I am
concerned about how this idea help the poor people in rural area. Please let
me hear from you.
Thanks
Yohannes

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Erin Rasmussen <erin at trmiles.com> wrote:

> 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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