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Market Opportunity
Market Opportunity. The fact is, landfills are closing at the same time that the need for clean fuels is growing. Concurrently, the fees to dispose MSW in a landfill are steadily increasing nationwide, but have increased most dramatically in the northeast. Meanwhile, worldwide ethanol production is presently at 12 billion gallons a year and steadily increasing, with the USA leading the way with production of 4,264,000,000 gallons a year as of 2005. In his January 23rd State of the Union address, President Bush set a new goal of 35 billion gallons of ethanol production by the year 2017.
Notably, Pennsylvania is the largest state in the nation to require recycling, and in a 2001 municipal waste study, Pennsylvania recycled 1.3 million tons of solid waste. Even more notably, approximately 24.5 million tons of waste is disposed at municipal waste facilities in Pennsylvania each year, 9.6 million tons of which are imported from other states, with the greatest amounts coming from nearby New York and New Jersey.
Although no one has calculated how much waste exists in the Pennsylvania landfills, since 1998, the records submitted indicate over 350 million tons have been disposed (not including ash.) There is existing capacity at Pennsylvania landfills to receive an additional 265 million tons over the next 13 years, if imports remain constant.
The fully realized production capability of each of our proposed plants is 500 tons per day per processing line. In larger cities we may have two or three lines in one facility processing MSW.
In short, there is an abundance of supply and a greatly increasing demand.
The Technology. Our approach is to manufacture the plant in two phases; first to produce electricity, and second to produce fuels. This way we are generating income in 12 months by producing electricity, and in 24 months we improve our bottom line by producing a higher-paying energy product -- ethanol or diesel fuel.
Our primary technology partner has patented their gasification process with the ionized water quench and filtration system. We have several other technology partners for off-the-shelf equipment such as syngas-to-electricity, and more customized systems such as GTL technology for syngas-to-ethanol or low sulfur diesel fuel.
