[Terrapreta] Fwd: 2007 California Clean Tech Open Invitation

[jim mason]

here is the second round of the california clean tech start up funding
competition.  let's all propose things (for those in california).  lots of
money and support for new endeavors.

it is admitedly very pv and smart power focussed competition, as this is a
silicon valley endeavor.  i keep arguing with all the valley locals that
nature has already well solved the "solar energy to dense fuels" problem,
and helpfully already installed it globally ( i.e. plants), for near free,
and gasifiers will mine their structural matter found in all our waste
streams, but they keep seeming to want to reinvent the system.  maybe the
terra preta biochar addition to the biomass argument will bring new
traction.  still, it is difficult to get any new monetizable ip over biomass
based solutions, so it will continue to not be very attractive to the
venture capital crowd (which this competition is).

nonetheless, it's a great competition.  reading who was selected last year
is quite inspiring, though also revealing of their field of vision.  so
maybe i'll send them a gasifier and terra preta proposal this year.  i'm
finding folks in the valley circle really have no idea it even exists.  i
describe it and run my little demos and about all they can say is "but you
are burning things" and "shouldn't we just drive EV cars?"  actually no, we
should respirate things like nature does, using our current mechanical
animals.  just feed them better "foods".  treat fuels and their associated
combustion machines as the synthetic metabolic systems that they are.

still so few systems approaches in these endeavors.  still so many single
point hail mary passes.  still such a common assumption that new tech must
be needed here.  ugh . . .

j



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From: California Clean Tech Open <notification at cacleantech.com>
Date: Apr 27, 2007 8:22 AM
Subject: 2007 California Clean Tech Open Invitation
To: jimmason at whatiamupto.com


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current project: mechabolic (http://whatiamupto.com/mechabolic/index.html)
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