Sunday, August 3, 2008

Tony Warnecke, Owner of Van Wert Biodiesel

SKUNK Weird NEWS FLASH!!!
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The reactor and storage tanks wait to produce bio-diesel outside of the production plant at Van Wert Biodiesel. (Photo by NATHAN GILLESPIE) (not)
Update from Greenshift: Tony Warnecke no longer works for GERS. His employment contract was terminated in December 2007. GERS has allowed him to build and operate a biodiesel facility so long as no GreenShift technology, assets and/or relationships were utilized. That picture (above) and the one (posted on this blog) of our bioreactor from a few weeks ago is of GreenShift assets. We maintain no current working relationship with Tony or Van Wert Biodiesel.
We have the previous owner of Warnecke Designs, which has recently changed its name to GS Designs, which is 100% owned by Greenshift Corporation - building his own biodiesel plant in Van Wert, Ohio?!? Tony Warnecke, is now owner of Van Wert Biofuels, Inc.!!! This privately owned bio-diesel plant will begin as a 7,000 gallons/week plant starting with pig fat as a feedstock. Gentleman, this is what they call a mini-micro-refinery. That is about a third of a million gallons even if they plan to work through the Christmas Holidays. Tony Warnecke who has claimed to supervise the construction of four of (GERS?) bio-diesel plants also says he plans to use algae as a feedstock in the future for his private plant?!? At first the Skunk thought this was a clear violation of the GERS policy stated in the last annual report: "All technical employees enter into confidentiality, non-competition and invention assignment agreements." But GERS confirms he a waiver/permission from GERS to build this plant under the conditions stated above. He is no longer working with or for GERS! It appears what we might have is this:
1. The case of a former Budweiser employee coming home after work and trying to make his own suds in the basement?!?
After the GERS update it now appears it may be no more complicated than that.
Final Notes:
The second article article says production may begin in July! The other suggests mid August? But the picture in the first article dated the 17th of July has untrimmed grass a foot high around the reactor and tanks laying out in the yard?!? Now we know these are GERS assets, not Van Wert Biodiesel. One article says the plant may sport its own Research and Development section!?! The other article has the owner signing for a city loan for $35,000 so he can purchase equipment. One article says 7,000 gallons a week and the other says 7,000 gallons a year! (The Skunk can make 7,000 gallons a year in his hot tub!) I think some of this confusion may be the reporter's mistakes combined with the inconsistances of big dreams and empty pockets. Well, I've been down both those roads myself a time or two. In the mean time - read these interesting July stories from the local papers in Van Wert, Ohio.
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MORE FINAL STORY NOTES
For those who want a little "too much" background.
Van Wert Biodiesel is located at 1001 Vision Dr in Van Wert, Ohio. It is in a 20,000 square foot reinforced concrete building that has?/had? a $475,000 dollar asking price. The building previously housed TENDASOFT, INC. which manufactured sanitary napkins made from purchased paper. It is located on the north side of town - while GS Design Services is located a 3.2 mile drive (9 minute) on the far south of town at 1202 Industrial Dr, Van Wert, OH 45891.
The other GS Design branch is based in Ottoville, Ohio. The two GS Design Buildings are a 27 min drive - about 17 miles apart.
Van Wert, Ohio may be a center of Algae Energy development - get a load of this recent seminar.
http://vanwert.limaohio.com/news/seminar_17729___article.html/algae_wert.html (These good folks must not have read the old Forbes Article that ridiculed the idea - more on that at a later date.)
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