Vision
We envision a world in which the vast amounts of CO2, SOx, & NOx emissions are recycled into feedstocks for ethanol and biodiesel, thereby reducing our dependence on foreign oil, reducing pollution & greenhouse gas emissions, and enabling the biofuels industry to grow without causing food price inflation.
Mission
Our mission is to excel at the invention, design, patenting, manufacturing and assembly our proprietary photobioreactor modules, and future improvements thereon, for our customers. This will help enable the owners, managers, and engineers of emissions sources to improve profitability and environmental friendliness by providing them with equipment that can turn their CO2, SOx, and NOx emissions into algae. The algae can then be processed into ethanol, biodiesel, and other valuable commodities using other technologies from other companies.
Technology
Building on the work of the US government during the 1970s - 1990s (link), we have invented a patent pending photobioreactor called the "MOPS"TM - a name with dual meaning. First, it is an acronym for MicroOrganism Production System, highlighting its ability to produce microorganisms at commercial scale. Second, the name reflects its functionality as a pollutant "mopping" technology.
When attached to a stream of emissions, the first generation MOPS is estimated to produce algae biomass at about 725,000 pounds per acre per year, which is enough for about 25,000 gallons of biodiesel per acre per year - 500 times the per acre biodiesel yield of soybean farming. At an estimated CO2 reduction rate of 540 tons per acre per year, the MOPS is estimated to consume CO2 at 250 times the rate of the typical tree forest. And, we estimate that it can consume about 30 tons per acre per year of NOx and 5 tons per acre per year of SOx. This technology should help coal-fired power generators, in particular, to overcome environmental resistance and improve profitability.
Open Source
The MOPS is intended to be an "open source" technology that can be mixed and matched with many other technologies, including but not limitted to: genetically engineered algae species, special growth media & methods, all brands of biodiesel processing technology, all brands of ethanol processing technology, and all brands of algae oil extraction technologies. Because this industry is still so young with relatively limited resources all around, we believe that open source marketing is important to its advancement, so that the best combination of people, technologies, and other resources can be brought to bear on a particular project, even if they come from different companies.
