Level Three?

Greenshift presently has two unique levels of technology that they have commercialized. The corn oil extraction and the corn oil to biodiesel . The Skunk spends most of his time looking at that part of the business since he knows the profitability there will make or break the rest of the company. There are three other levels of technology that we have - that are not yet in commercial production - that we know of.

The three technologies are best described here:

http://www.greenshift.com/technologies.php

Here is the short official like version followed by the Skunk abbreviation :
Biomass Gasification for Heat and Power Applications - (burn DDGs/cellulose to power boiler/generator)
Integral Biomass Gasification for Liquid Fuels Applications - (Synthetic Liquid Fuels - Zeropoint)
Integral Bioreformation of Carbon Dioxide into Liquid Fuels - (Algae Bioreactor)

Lightbeam over at the I-hub covers this side of the equation especially well and the Skunk reads the site daily. What he dug up is the purpose of this blog. Utica - the ethanol plant in Oskosh, WI - was the first to sign on for our GERS owned - Corn oil extraction package. The second plant they own - does front end oil extraction - which gets food grade corn oil and other products - prior to the fermentation process. It appears Utica and this second plant are on the leading edge of "Integral Biomass Gasification for Heat and Power Applications". We do not know who is providing the technology. But with the close history to Greenshift it would appear that it is at least a possibility worth closely watching.

i-hub thread:

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=31990187

Utica "First COES" Plant:

http://www.renewenergyllc.com/who_we_are_renew_utica.php

"Research and development is also underway to replace natural gas boiler at the plant with a biomass energy plant. This innovation reduce fossil fuel inputs dramatically, savings dollars and making Utica's carbon footprint smaller than any ethanol plant yet in existence."

Jefferson (Second Plant)

"Renew is deploying state of the art technologies that will result in our plant being more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. We will consume 20% less natural gas per gallon of ethanol produced than the industry standard. For air emissions such as carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, and volatile organic compounds, we will produce less than at older facilities half our size.”

http://www.renewenergyllc.com/who_we_are_renew_jefferson.php

Important SkunkNote: Although Utica has been a known partner for a long time, I think this reference (from link above) is the first time the Skunk remembers Utica mentioning the relationship on its site:

"Currently working with GS Cleantech, Utica is extracting corn oil from its distillers grains - yielding a basic ingredient for bio-diesel - as well as a higher quality livestock feed."

Skunk

PS - Man, this photo of the Pilot Bioreactor solar array from earlier this year is still really Cool!