[Terrapreta] Taxpayers footing bill for money- losing company(Dynamotive)

[Ron Larson]

Tom and Terra Preta members

    Thanks for putting this link to the negative financial review of Dynamotive.  Without knowing more, I can't comment on the appropriateness of the executive salaries.  But I do want to disagree on the author's negative reaction to Canadian government support.  I feel that starting this sort of company does require government help and I commend the Canadian government for doing so.  I wish the US government would itself start supporting  pyrolysis approaches commensurate with the pretty large amounts going into cellulosic ethanol recently.

    I met  Dynamotive's Dr. Desmond Radlein at the IAI conference and thought he represented Dynamotive well.  Dynamotive was a corporate sponsor.  Some of his comments on terra preta lead off the recent Scientific American article at 
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=5670236C-E7F2-99DF-3E2163B9FB144E40

    We also need to be supportive of companies like Eprida and BEST, which are not publicly traded however.  I think this may be the only investment opportunity for biochar (see http://www.renewableenergystocks.com/Companies/RenewableEnergy/Stock_List.asp)

    I will attempt to reach Dr. Radlein per your request below.  I have looked around the Dynamotive site a bit and am impressed by the several activities on-going.  See http://www.dynamotive.com/en/about/index.html for a pretty good description of what they are doing.

Ron


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Miles 
  To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org 
  Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:07 PM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] Taxpayers footing bill for money- losing company(Dynamotive)


  Taxpayers footing bill for money- losing company (Dynamotive)

  DAVID BAINES VANCOUVER SUN
  SECURITIES COLUMNIST
  dbaines@ png. canwest. com 

  This is a major news article that ran this weekend in the Canwest national newspaper chain, a very big readership in Canada. Article at:

  http://www.stockhouse.ca/bullboards/viewmessage.asp?no=14475850&tableid=1

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  This is probably an example of the complications of starting up a new business based on a new technology for producing char and oil. In this case bio-char is a byproduct. If I understand other sources correctly this company, Dynamotive, is also involved in Australian bio-char and bio-oil plants.   Maybe someone from Dynamotive or its licensees can give us the company side of the story and how they expect their bio-char production to develop. 

  Thanks

  Tom Miles

   
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