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Global Energy Inc. Chief Executive Officer Issues Letter to Stockholders

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:42:01 +0000

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CEO Asi Shalgi

\r\n\r\nDear Shareholders,\r\n\r\nI would like to take this opportunity to personally address you and update you on the development status of our Company. Due to the confidential nature of our development work with some of our partners, I will avoid mentioning their names.\r\n\r\nAs of the date hereof, we are still working with our partners to develop the KDV technology. All partners are working to increase the output efficiency and performing experiments as for the best stock-feed input mix. We tested an improved design for the turbine in Eppendorf Germany at Alphakat testing plant last week. The new design shows from first look better performance compared to the previous design. Please visit our website or my blog to view the video of Alphakat small KDV in demonstration made on May 7th. Alphakat will continue to test it for performance evaluation.\r\n\r\nWe are currently engaged in discussion with other renewable energy technology companies in the field of alternatives fuel production. This is part of our strategy to become the leading commercializing Company in the world in the field of renewable diesel production from different kinds of waste or feedstocks.\r\n\r\nAs CEO of the Company, I strive to steer the Company in the direction that will create the most value in the future, and all actions we took in the past few years were guided by this approach. As a Company, we will need to supply the rapidly growing demand for renewable fuels from non-edible sources, especially due to the rapid rise in prices and the geopolitical instability in some oil producing regions in the world. We are moving forward with our business and positioning our Company as a leading player in the market.\r\n\r\nI know that for some of you, our actions are not always understood, but I want to assure you that the management team of the Company is fully committed to the success of Global Energy and its shareholders. We are focused on building a large, strong and profitable Company and on maximizing value to our shareholders.\r\n\r\nSincerely,\r\n\r\nAsi Shalgi\r\nChief Executive Officer

Show me the Biofuel

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:36:47 +0000

As the year 2011 draws to an end and reports are being filed, it seems as if the last year did not hold great news for bio-fuel producers. Legislators may have been overly enthusiastic in passing laws encouraging companies to use alternatives to fossil fuels, missing a few steps in the process, and forcing oil companies to pay around $6.8 million in Environmental Protection Agency penalties for failing to do the impossible.\r\n\r\n

Charles T. Drevna

\r\n\r\n“It belies logic,” says Charles T. Drevna, president of the National Petrochemicals and Refiners Association, in an interview to the New York Times, as he speaks of the 2011 quota, and the foreseen raising of the quota for 2012.\r\n\r\nThe Energy Independence and Security Act \r\n\r\nConsidering the standards set by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act legislated to decrease CO2 emission, as well as the US dependency on oil from the Middle East and the costs of shipping it, some might claim that the agency is being too lenient. However, all agree that the law itself, which includes provisions to incorporate renewable energy sources into gasoline and diesel, was drawn with little consideration for reality.\r\n\r\nThe law, requiring the use of three alternative fuels: diesel fuel made from biomass, fuel made from biological materials, and car and truck fuel made from cellulose, turned out possible only with the latter, which is the main component of plant cell walls.\r\n\r\n“From a taxpayer/consumer standpoint, it doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense that we would require blenders to pay fines or fees or whatever for stuff that literally isn’t available,” said Dennis V. McGinn, in the same interview as one of the main representatives of the American Council on Renewable Energy.\r\n\r\n”The state of the technology for turning biological material like wood chips or nonfood is advancing but not yet ready for commercial introduction” added Michael J. McAdams, the executive director of the Advanced Biofuels Association, when comparing the long process of millions of years for the creation of crude oil and the wishfully rapid generation of safe alternatives.\r\n\r\nMeeting the Quota\r\n\r\n

KDV Technology

\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNaturally, most technologies and factories require more time before they are able to produce energy in quantities to meet the demands of oil companies and the legislators. The New York Times article offers a few possible early sources, including the energy company Poet which produces ethanol from corn kernels and Mascoma, a company partly owned by General Motors that intends to make fuel alcohol from wood waste.\r\n\r\nIn the same breath the article mentions companies like Range Fuels that recently closed one of its factories after running into technical difficulties. It seems that making the new law’s cut is proving to be much more difficult than previously thought, much to the dismay of the national oil companies.\r\n\r\nGlobal Energy\r\n\r\nAnother possible factory that could make the cut with time is Global Energy Inc. Global Energy Inc. is an example of a company that actually provides an answer for the missing technology required for completion of the renewable energy quota set by the US government. Using the cutting edge KDV technology, Global Energy has the means of turning waste into mineral diesel, which is considered to be a safe alternative to fossil fuels. However, while the technology exists, more plants must be built in order to produce bio-fuel at the prescribed quantity. In order to set up more factories the real challenge has become raising awareness for these environmental issues as well as their possible solutions, and encouraging investors to go green.

From Waste to Energy – How to Make the Grade?

admin — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:40:06 +0000

When creating energy-from-waste (EfW) in the form of electricity or heat from the burning of mixed garbage, it is difficult to determine how to measure the renewable content of waste made into energy. Currently in the UK, renewable electricity is being graded by ROCs, Renewable Obligation Certificates, issued for every megawatt hour of energy produced and sold for around £50.\r\n\r\nIn the mixed waste to electricity field, this method is being used only in the Energos plant, where ROCs are calculated by measuring the biomass content of the fuel and the gross calorific value of the flue gas. That’s sort of like weighing smoke by weighing an unburned cigarette and subtracting from it, the weight of a burnt cigarette, a technique that is both inaccurate and time consuming.\r\n\r\nThe Carbon 14 Solution\r\n\r\n\r\nWhen taking into account the European Union’s target to produce 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, we are all quite aware that the race is on, and in the energy from waste field this is particularly true, not only in the actual production of energy, but also in measuring how efficient the process actually is. These days it seems that there is a new solution available in the form of carbon 14. Used up until now for carbon dating, carbon 14 usually allowed scientists to determine the age of a human bone, tissue, or any other formerly living organism.\r\n\r\nAs living organisms die and turn into fossil fuel, caused by radioactive decay, the amount of carbon 14 isotopes they contain go down, meaning that fossil fuels will have less carbon 14 isotopes than recently living biomass. This amount is exactly what can be measured in the smokestack (or flue gas) of power plants for their ROC evaluation.\r\n\r\nAnd with its proven track record, researchers from Ofgem, Britain’s electricity and gas market regulator, is willing to let carbon strut its stuff. This comes as good news not only for energy derived from waste in the form of electricity, but also and perhaps even more so for fuels used as a source of heat and transport fuel. Backed by the National Non-Food Crops Centre, New Earth Energy, and the Renewable Energy Association, Carbon 14′s first steps in the United Kingdom seem more than promising.\r\n\r\nAdvocates and Critics\r\n\r\n

Dr. John Williams

\r\n\r\nJohn Williams, head of materials for energy and industry at the NNFCC, is excited with Carbon 14′s prospects. “The carbon 14 method is enabling easy and accurate differentiation between carbon dioxide emissions created from fossil sources and those from renewables,” he concludes, granting a substantial thrust to the process.\r\n\r\nHowever, as may be anticipated, there are some critics of the method, including Richard Black, operations director of the U.K. Resource Efficiency Knowledge Transfer Network, who states that “The advantage of this process is that gas analysis is very representative of the actual feedstock input, but the major disadvantage of the method is that it’s retrospective and expensive.”\r\n\r\nSummary\r\n\r\nToday, carbon 14 can help scientists discriminate between the different forms of renewable energy only after the energy is produced. By measuring the ratio of renewable carbon (carbon 14) and fossil carbon (carbon 12) in a power station smokestack, we can determine the renewable carbon content of any source material, which could assist in the establishment of new emission regulations for the field and providing a boost to the industry in the future.\r\n\r\nFor Global Energy Inc. Which converts MSW to biofuel, this means a boost as well, in both financing and in providing the capacity to investigate just how much of its waste is making the grade when it comes to conversion ratios and efficiency, providing information for years to come that will help in the reduction of sludge and in better, safer, and more renewable energy.

Pulling the Plug on the Electric Car

admin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:00:57 +0000

In a recent article published on the site Alternative Energy Stocks, John Peterson writes about the lies consumers tell themselves when it comes to electric vehicles (EV) and battery power. \r\n\r\nPlacing this era in the Cleantech Revolution, Peterson warns us from viewing energy prices and CO2 emissions as the number one hazard to our environment.\r\n\r\nThough these are crucial issues for our planet, we mustn’t forget other threats that might be overlooked in the cleantech race.\r\n\r\nMetal Prices\r\n\r\nTurns out metal prices are higher than oil prices, while the production of metal is substantially lower than oil. And guess what? We need metal and especially rare and expensive metals for electric cars, and a lot of it.\r\n\r\nThe metals that are most important to alternative energy and electric drive are very difficult and expensive to recycle. With the exception of lithium which is a plentiful resource that only represents 5% or 6% of the metal content in Li-ion batteries the world cannot produce enough technology metals to permit a widespread transition to alternative energy or electric drive. Yet, it’s both difficult and expensive to produce and later recycle metal. In the long run we must soon face the fact that our society can’t create enough metals that will allow us to switch completely to the electric drive.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFrom hybrids to the Nissan Leaf\r\n\r\nThis doesn’t mean we should give up completely on the EV. But if we make a comparison of full and half hybrids and the fully electric powered Nissan Leaf, we’ll see that the same 96 kWh of batteries go a much longer way with hybrids. In other words, when the electric drive serves as a fuel tank replacement, a single kWh of capacity saves just 19 gallons of fuel per year compared to 107 fuel gallons saved per year in hybrids while using the recuperative braking technology. This means that the EV isn’t as efficient as we had all hoped it would be.\r\n\r\nEV manufacturers don’t hide this information from us, instead trying to sell battery charging with solar and wind power. But the fact remains that, even though solar and wind are as green an energy source as you can get, they’re not as powerful in charging as we would like them to be. And in this configuration plenty of metal parts for the batteries themselves are still required for the daily process of charging.\r\n\r\nThere are many crucial differences between high-power batteries for hybrid drive and high-energy batteries used in EV. When it comes to raw materials these differences aren’t that important, however using battery capacity as a proxy for metal consumption in the following analysis makes complete sense in order for us to find out how far can this metal go when fuel comes into the picture. Assuming an automobile with an internal combustion engine will use 400 gallons of fuel for 12,000 miles each year, Peterson makes the next comparison, taking under consideration that a total of 96 kWh of batteries should be used in reducing fuel consumption.\r\n

64 Prius-class hybrids will generate 160 gallons of fuel savings per year for a total of 10,240 gallons per year;

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six Volt-class plug-in hybrids that will generate 300 gallons of fuel savings per year for a total of 1,800 gallons per year

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Four Leaf class electric vehicles will generate 400 gallons of fuel savings per year for a total of a mere 1,600 gallons per year.

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\r\nThis shows the basic flaw in all EVs. When batteries reuse braking energy that would otherwise be wasted, as they do in hybrids, a single kWh of capacity can save up to 107 gallons of fuel per year. Yet when used as fuel tank replacements, a single kWh of capacity can only save 19 gallons of fuel per year that will balance out with increased fuel consumption in power plants.\r\n\r\nRecharging our Batteries\r\n\r\nAll supporters of EVs reassure us that battery prices and EV costs themselves will gradually decrease in the next few years. At the same time, the manufacturers are promising that electric vehicles will be the perfect solution for short commuters. However, the examination of graphs that compare oil prices with cost per kWh in electric automobiles such as the Nissan Leaf or the GM Volt, reveals that the people who will get the most value from their EVs will be those who drive more, while having to recharge at least twice a day to get the best ratio.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJust take a look at your laptop, even if it’s top notch, once you pull out the plug it can only work for a few hours before it dies. The same goes for Iphones and any other electric devices that work on battery power. We might like to think of them as extra strength, but the facts are that the last twenty years haven’t seen an overwhelming rise in battery efficiency. They have their limit.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nGlobal Energy INC\r\n\r\nUnless we change our transportation habits to more public transport, shorter commutes and car sharing, we should probably start looking towards other solutions to the fuel problem.\r\n\r\nGlobal Energy is one example of a company hoping to change regular fuel by using biomass, and waste. With its KDV technology, Global Energy has been able to turn municipal solid waste into high mineral diesel (Renewable Drop In fuel), allowing to fuel vehicles, reduction of CO2 emissions, or financial dependency on oil producers countries.\r\n\r\nLooks like batteries aren’t going to be our saviors, but maybe our garbage will be the one thing that comes to our rescue at the end of the day.\r\n\r\n

The Advanced Biofuels Initiative and Global Energy

admin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:32:47 +0000

On August 16, 2011, President Obama issued a statement (Video) proclaiming that during the next three years the US government, along with numerous partners in the private sector, will advance funding of $510 million towards the production of biofuels for transportation as part of his Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future that was declared on March.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBy making this announcement the president is showing his true commitment towards the production of decent substitutes for crude oil, the creation of green jobs that will be beneficial for both the economy and the environment, and the reduction of the nation’s reliance on oil from the Middle East. Yet the race for advanced biofuels might be stopped short unless scientists come up with a way of lowering the cost of producing and transporting biofuels, since airlines will never be truly green unless the price is right.\r\n\r\n The Biofuel Market\r\n\r\nWhile ethanol, the number one biofuel in the market thus far, makes for cleaner air, its production from either corn (in the US) or sugar cane (in Brazil), isn’t as efficient or as cost-effective as its lobbyists would like us to believe. Growing these crops requires large wet lands which aren’t always readily available, not to mention their high cost for the government with the demand for subsidies and crop insurance for farmers.\r\n\r\nToday, however, this new initiative places other players in the biofuel court – from algae to tequila – in a great position to draw in investors, and we might be finally starting to see some competition as big players like Goldman Sachs make major biofuels investments.\r\n\r\nSoy beans, camelina, jatropha and other feedstock can all produce “drop-in” fuels for aircrafts, meaning that they could be mixed in with traditional fossil fuels without reconfiguring the system, which makes them the perfect candidates for Obama’s initiative. But we’ll need a whole lot of beans just to start competing with the prices of crude oil.\r\n\r\nWaste to Diesel - Bio-Solution ‘Renewable Drop-In Fuel’ (RDIF)\r\n\r\n\r\nAlongside biofuel, we also find its companion biodiesel – mainly produced from vegetable oil and animal fat – ready to be used in standard diesel engines. However, three problems still afflict this alternative energy source, the first is the need to turn it into biofuel for usage in jets, the second is, once again, the sheer amount of vegetable oil which would have to be produced, and the third is, naturally, the cost.\r\n\r\nEven when the Middle East is in turmoil, the cost of oil is rising, and the pressure of green groups to move toward alternative energy is constantly growing, nothing beats the dollar sign on fossil fuels. It seems we have to find a bio solution “drop-in” that can be made, not from an overwhelming amount of crops, but from a substance that’s abundant everywhere.\r\n\r\nGlobal Energy\r\n\r\nCommissioning by its partner the first KDV waste to diesel pilot demonstration plant in the United States in June 2010, Global Energy proves to be a strong competitor in this burgeoning market, aiming to win the economic race with the assistance of Obama’s initiative and its unique KDV technology in the world.\r\n\r\nFinally, here’s a company that’s not repurposing large tracts of valuable agricultural land, but instead feeding on the most abundant resource our planet currently has to offer – garbage. Turning any kind of waste into high quality mineral diesel oil that’s green, clean, and available everywhere, Global Energy just might be the one who’ll end up shining in the alternative energy race started by Obama just a few weeks ago.

The Rising Prices of Black Gold

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:58:57 +0000

With recent developments in the Middle East region, it would not be merely metaphorical to say that the ground is on fire, and with it, our “oh so precious oil”.\r\n\r\nMuammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, the leader of Libya since his 1969 coup, is nowhere to be found following riots of his people, inspired by the latest Egyptian revolt, yet his influence on the region and its black gold is strongly felt.\r\n\r\nWith the price of oil nearing a 28-month peak of $100 per barrel, following the riots in Libya, which threaten to disrupt oil exports from the country, our dependency on oil is becoming even more impossible to ignore.\r\n\r\nThe latest reports also state that the Libyan leader ordered to bomb the country’s oil pipelines, threatening to cut off the Mediterranean countries from oil completely. Though the OPEC countries have announced that if necessary they will help the countries in need, one cannot help but wonder, till when? \r\n\r\nTake a Look at this Video for more details about the possible oil crisis:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLibyan Oil\r\n\r\nBeing Europe’s largest oil supplier, with 42 billion barrels of oil reserves in Africa and over 1.3 trillion cubic meters of gas, Libya isn’t exactly the country you’d want to see headed by an eccentric fashion conscious dictator.\r\n\r\nYet there’s no doubt that Libya is one of the most dominating forces in the petroleum sector, and that international attention to it these days wouldn’t be half as much, if it wasn’t for its black gold.\r\n\r\nOil Dependency\r\n\r\nThere for, reducing our dependency on oil is becoming more urgent as each day passes. Using oil revenues from Arab countries is proving to be not the safest bet around and then there’s that little issue of our planet. I find it sad that only when political issues gain the front stage do people get reminded of the environmental impact oil has on our home through pollutant and greenhouse gases emissions.\r\n\r\nIt’s obvious that the world does not really concern itself with oil alternatives for transportation and does it only from time to time when oil prices go up. That’s also why as world oil prices go down attention and investments in the green field disappear. Yet the day when oil, growing more expensive with time, will be gone completely, isn’t very far.\r\n\r\nAlternative Energy Sources\r\n\r\nSo until it’s too late politically and environmentally speaking, we all should strive to remove oil from our dictionary. This can be done by turning to alternative energy sources like battery, solar and wind, and also by creating diesel from everyday products such as waste materials.\r\n\r\nThat’s exactly where companies like Global Energy Inc (GEYI:OB). become part of the solution to the world’s growing dependency on black gold. By processing municipal solid waste into high mineral diesel, Global Energy Inc. is trying to make sure that the oil found in Africa and Middle Eastern countries will soon become redundant, with or without a Civilian coup.

The Age of Man vs. Age of Nature

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:16:10 +0000

In its January edition, The National Geographic Magazine published that by the end of 2011 the world’s population will have reached 7 Billion people. The magazine shows numerous photographs taken from places like India where the affects of population are felt more drastically in terms of water supplies and sanitary conditions. By 2045 it is believed that the world population would reach 9 Billion, which means that unless we face these issues now, the same conditions might occur in more places around the globe.\r\n\r\nYet we have to understand that the problem of population is more a question of balance than it is of numbers. The world today is facing a population boom and an urban boom at the same time, with people around the world moving from the country side into the cities. As countries like India and China go through an economic growth helping them catch up with the US and Europe they’re also catching up to a lifestyle of energy consumption rather than conservation.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIt’s not just the number of people but how we as people use energy. As populations grow they’re starting to consume more energy and as places like India succeed more people will drive cars and turn on their AC which will lead to increasing the world’s carbon print. In the long run, more people equal more carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere causing harsh weather conditions.\r\n\r\nFollowing thousands of years of taking resources from the planet, we are going to have to find a new way of doing things in cycles that’ll nurture back nature rather than just taking. It’s man vs. nature and unless we come up with a couple of great solutions for preserving energy, I have a feeling that nature will be the one with the upper hand.\r\n\r\nSo the main challenge we face today with growing population isn’t how to take the numbers down but how to come up with a technology that generates energy without emitting carbon dioxide into the environment, and doing it cheaply. That’s where Global Energy (GEYI:OB) comes into the picture, using waste to create mineral diesel, giving nature back what we have taken from it.\r\n\r\nPopulation feeds energy needs and energy feeds the population, so it makes no difference if we’re 7, 9 or even 10 Billion people on the planet. The energy problem is a problem we’re going to have to solve no matter what. It’s either that or nature wins.

Keeping It All in The Family – A New Garbage Cycle

admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:28:36 +0000

Cooking oil converted to biodiesel, food scraps, wood and garden waste turned to biogas and trash processed into electricity. These scenarios might sound like something out of a Science Fiction movie but the truth is that the technology is already here.\r\n\r\nIn New Zealand, a biofuel powered truck began its course of action a month ago, proving that biomethane fuel just might be a good solution for saving waste by turning it to methane. Ironically enough, the new trucks are the kind that transfer rubbish, guess that way, it’s all being kept in the family.\r\n\r\nIn San Diego, the New Leaf Biofuel company gathers each month about 40,000 gallons of cooking oil from local restaurants, which later goes on to fuel recycling trucks. Once again all is kept in the family and you can comfort yourself in the fact that your French fries aren’t just in charge of your growing belly but that their oil can later be used for fueling.\r\n\r\nFor the past ten years, Kristianstad, a city in Sweden has seen a dramatic change by replacing fossil fuels with the city’s own garbage by employing waste-to-energy technology.\r\n\r\nTurns out that our garbage could be reused and recycled even more than we ever thought was possible. Today, waste to energy has become a burning topic in the environmental news. Not only does this new technology use a free, found anywhere resource, it also has less effect on our globe and climate changes.\r\n\r\nIn a world where around 4.85 billion tons of trash is thrown each day it’s only natural to hope that we will soon turn most of our global waste into global energy. Global Energy Inc. does exactly that; processing many types of municipal solid waste like paper, tar, animal manure and plastic into high mineral diesel.\r\n\r\nEstablishing a waste to energy facility obviously costs money and in order to make use of its products to the fullest it’s best that the waste product isn’t transported. So yes, there are still a few problems in the process that make it easier for us to keep on depending on fossil fuel.\r\n\r\nYet, as we in Global Energy Inc (GEYI:OB) see it, choices are running out. It’s time to make a change, not for us, but for our planet.

The Unbearable Lightness of Forest Fires

admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:58:50 +0000

For the past few years our world has been seeing a rise in the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Yet while the problem of global warming is not a new phenomena, the fact that this rise has been causing more fires in forest areas like Alaska and recently also in the Carmel Mountains in Israel, is another issue that raises more questions and fears concerning climate changes in our burning planet.

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Burning down the forest

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A recent study published in Nature Geosciences shows a clear connection between the rise in temperatures and the degree of harm wildfires cause today. As burning forests reach a higher level of severity, more carbon is released to the air, creating a vicious cycle which professor Merritt Turetsky from the University of Guelph explains as “warming leading to larger and more intense fires, releasing more greenhouse gases and resulting in more warming”.

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This is a truth that is unfortunately becoming much harder to miss as burning woods create havoc and release deadly gases into the atmosphere while doing so. One solution, as odd as it might sound, might just be trimming away some forest areas.

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Cutting down a forest

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While trees do store carbon dioxide, unlike the burning process, when they are cut, the carbon remains in the wood where it is permanently stored in future wood products made from the tree. This means that cutting down or at least trimming forests might actually be a partial solution to the accelerated fires our globe has been encountering for the past decade or so.

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The following link shows just how efficient can tree cutting be. Yet, don’t try buying a robot like machine to clear up your back yard forest. Only when planned and done by skilled foresters, can tree cutting help a bit in clearing patches across forests, giving future fires a fight for their money.

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Saving our forests

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Turns out that just like hair, sometimes you just have to cut to make it healthier. It’s important to keep in mind though that living forests remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by giving off oxygen. So the fear that the loss of rain forests will increase carbon levels in the air resulting in global warming, still exists.

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While on the other hand, the reflection of sunlight on the ground instead of being absorbed in the woods, creates the opposite effect of the earth’s cooling.

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It’s a gentle balance between cutting trees and saving them, all in the purpose of making sure that our planet’s temperatures stop rising. So until we find a solution to gas emission from our burning forests, factories and vehicles, it’s time to find alternatives.

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Global Energy Inc. has dedicated itself to creating a renewable energy source for fuel. Using its patented KDV technology, it has the ability to transform any sort of municipal solid waste into high quality mineral diesel, helping trees and the struggle against harmful gas emissions.

Cleaning up the Mess in the Ocean

admin — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:40:49 +0000

Since its discovery in 1997, the Pacific Trash Vortex, also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, hasn’t been showing any signs of becoming smaller or disappearing. For us, this unfortunately means that the plastic archipelago located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Francisco, is here to stay and to expand, unless we do something.\r\n\r\nProject KAISEI is a non-governmental organization established in 2008 in the aim of diminishing plastic debris in the oceans. For the past few years the project has been focusing its attention on the plastic trash vortex in the North Pacific Gyre, hoping to find out just how big it is and where would it be best to start tidying up the mess. Recently, the project’s founders returned from an expedition to the area after having studied the waste, in hopes that the research would benefit the future cleanup of the water. The results of the research showed that it would take more than just a large sized I Robot to clean up the mess, so the guys at Project KAISEI decided to join forces with Covanta Energy to make sure that the cleaning process starts ASAP.\r\n\r\nCovanta Energy is an alternative energy corporation from the US which owns and operates several waste-to-energy plants around the world, focused on turning garbage into diesel substitutes. Together, the two groups hope to make good use of the piles of garbage found in the Pacific Trash Vortex in terms of recycling them into energy alternatives.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJoining in the mutual efforts of cleaning up the waters is the Clinton Global Initiative. First thought of in 2005, the CGI, developed by President Bill Clinton, encourages global leaders to research and solve the global problems our world faces in terms of the environment and society today.\r\n\r\nAs these giants join together in the mutual goal of getting rid of the waste our waters have and using it for recycling, another player comes into mind. Hoping to pick up some of the mess as well is Global Energy inc. which signed a contract with Covanta Energy two and a half years ago. Under the agreements with the company, Covanta will operate hundreds of facilities across the US using Global Energy’s KDV technology which turns any sort of municipal solid waste, from glass to sludge, into high quality mineral diesel oil.\r\n\r\nWith names like Project KAISEI, Covanta Energy, the Clinton Global Initiative and Global Energy’s KDV Technology, we’re all in anticipation for the day that we’ll be using diesel substitutes that used to float in the ocean.