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[horace]

Mantra Energy Alternatives

Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd., eine 100 %-Tochter der Mantra Venture Group Ltd., ist bestrebt, sich als Weltmarktführer bei der Produktion von hochwertigen Chemikalien und Kraftstoffen mit negativer CO2-Bilanz zu positionieren. Mantra entwickelt derzeit das ERC-Verfahren, das zunächst der Herstellung von Ameisensäure und Formiatsalzen dient. Langfristig soll damit eine Vielzahl von Produkten hergestellt werden. Das Unternehmen will anthropogene Kohlenstoffemissionen, zu denen die Kraftstoffverbrennung allein jährlich mehr als 30 Milliarden Tonnen beiträgt, reduzieren und gleichzeitig Werte generieren.

Mantra Venture Group ist ein börsennotiertes Unternehmen, dessen Aktien an der OTC QB unter dem Kürzel MVTG und an der Börse Berlin unter dem Kürzel 5MV gehandelt werden.

Elektro-Reduktion von Kohlendioxid

ERC, die sogenannte Elektro-Reduktion von Kohlendioxid, ist eine Form der Abscheidung und Nutzung von Kohlenstoff (Carbon Capture and Utilization/CCU), bei der der Schadstoff Kohlendioxid in nutzbare, wertvolle Produkte wie Ameisensäure und Formiate umgewandelt wird. Durch die Nutzung von sauberem Strom bietet dieses Verfahren Industrieanlagen die Möglichkeit, ihre Emissionen zu reduzieren und gleichzeitig ein verkaufsfähiges Produkt und Profit zu generieren.


CO2-neutrale Brennstoffzellen

Mit Hilfe von Ameisensäure als "Wasserstoffspeicher" will Mantra Energy Alternatives die Vorteile der Wasserstoff-Brennstoffzellentechnologie mit denen von flüssigen Brennstoffen vereinen. Die Verwendung von Ameisensäure in Brennstoffzellen ist im Prinzip CO2-neutral.

Am 18. März 2014 gab Mantra Energy Alternatives bekannt, daß mit der Entwicklung eines Brennstoffzell-Prototypen für Transportzwecke begonnen wurde. Eine Version von Mantras sogenannter MRFC-Zelle („Mixed Reactant Fuel Cell“) wird speziell für den Einsatz in verschiedenen Fahrzeugtypen entwickelt. Ziel ist es, noch in diesem Jahr einen funktionstüchtigen Prototypen herzustellen.

Laut Aussagen der Ingenieure von Mantra liegt der Vorteil der MRFC-Zelle darin, dass sie ohne die kostspieligste und fehleranfälligste Komponente herkömmlicher Brennstoffzellen auskommt: der Membran. Das Mischen von Brennstoff und Oxidationsmittel vereinfacht auch die Zufuhr von Reagenzmittel und die Reaktorvervielfältigung. Das System benötigt dadurch weniger Platz. Die Entwicklung der MRFC-Zelle erfolgte an der University of British Columbia und dauerte sechs Jahre. Obgleich die Ergebnisse sehr vielversprechend sind, wurde die Zelle noch nicht für Anwendungen im Transportbereich verfügbar gemacht.

lg
horace

[tantegrete13]

der kurs hat sich innerhalb von wenigen tagen vervierfacht
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=MVTG#symbol=MVTG;range…" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://de.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=MVTG#symbol=MVTG;range…


p.s bin im ballard threat auf dich und diese firma aufmerksam gemacht worden


tantchen

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.683.025 von horace am 23.03.14 16:26:59

Ich halte die Mantra Venture Group schon (sehr)lange.
Was denkst Du über sie?

Gruß
P.

[stangman67]

...wenn ich mich mit einklinken darf ...

es wird geschrieben: kein Cash, kaum Umsätze, Technologien stammen von der Uni und sind noch wenig praxiserprobt ...

high risk !

aber zumindest haben die (noch?) nicht wie andere high flyer (Hypersolar,etc.) korrigiert - das könnte ein gutes Zeichen sein ...

good luck !

[horace]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.684.425 von Popeye82 am 23.03.14 23:08:56

Da die Unternehmung sowohl die Technologie zur Ameisensäure-Synthese als auch die benötigten Ameisensäure-Brennstoffzellen weiterentwickelt, ist sie aus meiner Sicht jedes Risiko wert. Das Ameisensäure-Synthese-Verfahren ist immerhin bereits patentiert. Darüber hinaus haben Sie finanzstarke Partner.

Hätte ich die Mittel, würde ich ehestens bei Mantra einsteigen. So muß ich auf einen Kursrückgang hoffen um günstiger zum Zug zu kommen.

Jedenfalls werdee ich noch vor der Präsentation des Fahrzeug-Prototyps mit Ameisensäure-Brennstoffzellen-Antrieb (ev. noch 2014) investiert sein.

lg
horace

[horace]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.684.945 von horace am 24.03.14 08:36:52

Mantra Announces Advancements in Novel Fuel Cell for Energy Storage

BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Dec. 2, 2013) – Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) and its subsidiary, Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd., have announced recent promising experimental advances in developing an innovative platinum- and membrane-free mixed-reactant fuel cell (MRFC) architecture called the “Swiss-roll MRFC”. The novel Swiss-roll MRFC (licensed exclusively by Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd.) has been extensively developed in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of the University of British Columbia (UBC), in the Fuel Cells and Applied Electrochemistry Laboratory of Professors Elod Gyenge and Colin Oloman. The development of the Swiss-roll MRFC has been fully supported by UBC, the Clean Energy Research Center and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through the Discovery and Discovery Accelerator programs.

The main feature of the Swiss-roll MRFC design is that there is no need for expensive platinum-based electrocatalysts. This novel design also eliminates the need for expensive and failure-prone polymer electrolyte membranes (PEM) and heavy, bulky bipolar plates. As a result, the Swiss-roll MRFC stack could significantly reduce the cost and increase the durability of the direct liquid fuel cell systems, while providing a high volumetric power density.

Development of this novel Swiss-roll architecture at UBC has resulted in significant engineering improvements and potential cost reductions of fuel cells for direct liquid/air systems, such as formate/formic acid, borohydride, and hydrazine. This may open new avenues for commercialization of fuel cell systems for various applications.

The Swiss-roll design has sparked interest in the scientific and industrial community and Mantra aims to continue research and product development of the Swiss-roll MRFC for various applications, such as energy storage units and emergency back-up power systems, with its international partners in academia and industry.

“Development of this novel platinum- and membrane-free Swiss-roll mixed-reactant fuel cell was beyond our expectations. The performance of the Swiss-roll MRFC matches the highest power densities of conventional systems with platinum-based catalysts and polymer membranes. This improved performance and cost reduction of fuel cell systems may open new avenues toward commercialization of low cost fuel cell units for different applications: from small portable applications to large-scale stationary energy storage systems. Most importantly, the elimination of polymer membranes may significantly improve the performance and stability of many fuel cell chemistries such as direct hydrazine/air fuel cells. Mantra is currently investigating the adoption of this innovative MRFC for formic acid, formate, and direct hydrazine/air systems in its R&D facility in Burnaby, Canada,” says Amin Aziznia, Mantra’s senior electrochemical engineer.

Mantra’s CTO, Patrick Dodd, further commented, “A low cost mixed-reactant fuel cell system is an important step toward Mantra’s successful business case for CO2 electroredution to fuels. We are currently exploring the integration of Mantra’s electrochemical reduction (ERC) technology for CO2 reduction to formic acid/formate with the MRFC. The implication of the Swiss-roll MRFC for energy storage applications is currently being explored within our R&D team and with our international collaborators.”

About ERC
ERC, or the “Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide”, is a form of “carbon capture and utilization” that converts the pollutant carbon dioxide into useful, valuable products including formic acid and formate salts. By utilizing clean electricity, the process offers the potential for an industrial plant to reduce emissions while generating a salable product and a profit.

About MRFC
In a conventional fuel cell, the fuel and oxidant flow in separate streams, kept apart by an ion-conducting membrane that divides the cell into discreet anode and cathode chambers. The single-cells are electrically in series using bipolar flow-field plates that provide most of the stack weight and volume.

By comparison to the conventional fuel cell, in a mixed-reactant fuel cell, or “MRFC”, a mixture of fuel and oxidant flows through the cell as a single stream. The mixed-feed concept allows for a variety of conventional and unconventional cell stack designs including the Mantra’s patented Swiss-roll MRFC.

Simplification of MRFC systems is possible because they can operate without the gastight structures within the stack that are required for sealing, manifolding, and separating reactant delivery in conventional fuel cells. Corresponding simplifications may also be realized in the balance of plant. As a result, MRFCs could potentially provide relatively low cost fuel cell systems with high volumetric power density.

For further information on Mantra’s technologies, please visit:

http://mantraenergy.com/news/publications/

Also see the following patent and scholarly publications:

1. “Mixed-Reactant Flow-By Fuel Cell” (2012)
Colin W. Oloman British Patent GB 2474202, 2012.
http://www.google.com/patents/WO2010015092A1

2. “A Swiss-Roll-Liquid-Gas Mixed-Reactant Fuel Cell” (2012):
Journal of Power Sources, Volume 212, Pages 154-160, 15 August 2012
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775312…

3. “Platinum- and Membrane-Free Swiss-Roll Mixed-Reactant Alkaline Fuel Cell” (2013):
ChemSusChem, Volume 6, Issue 5, pages 847-855, May 2013
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cssc.201300127/ab…

4. “Borohydride-tolerant Oxygen Electroreduction Catalyst for Mixed-Reactant Swiss-Roll Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells” (2013)
Journal of Materials Chemistry A Volume 1Issue 45, pages 14384-14391 (November 2013)
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/ta/c3ta13…

About Mantra Energy Alternatives
Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mantra Venture Group Ltd., aims to become a world leader in the production of high-value, carbon-negative chemicals and fuels. Mantra is currently developing the ERC process, which will initially produce formic acid and formate salts from carbon dioxide, and will eventually be capable of generating a wide variety of products. The company seeks to simultaneously reduce anthropogenic carbon emissions, which total over 30 billion tonnes each year from fuel combustion alone, and generate value.

Mantra Venture Group is a public company quoted on the OTC QB under the symbol MVTG.

Follow Mantra on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mantraenergy

For more information go to: http://www.mantraventuregroup.com

Forward-looking statements: Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties. See Mantra Venture Group’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which identify specific factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements.

http://mantraenergy.com/mantra-announces-advancements-in-nov…

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horace

[horace]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.685.185 von horace am 24.03.14 09:03:28

New energy Mantra

MRFC would supply power producers with a low-cost system for high-volume power density applications.

Ontario’s energy minister Bob Chiarelli announced in December that the province would extend the phasing-in of wind, solar and bioenergy to an estimated 10,700 megawatts by 2021 and continue diversifying its energy mix to lower its reliance on nuclear power. By 2025, the government expects half of Ontario’s installed generating capacity to come from renewable sources.

But there’s a problem with adding renewable capacity: storing energy when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining.
“Energy storage is needed badly. When the wind isn’t blowing, you can’t rely on wind power. When the sun isn’t shining, you can’t depend on solar,” says Larry Kristoff, president of Mantra Venture Group Ltd. “We’re not just wasting energy, we’re compromising power grids and costing conventional power producers a lot of money because they have to slow down or shut down their operations.”

Mantra is confident it has a solution to the energy storage shortfall: a relatively low-cost swiss-roll fuel cell system, originally developed by UBC professor, Colin Oloman.

“Talk to anyone in the renewable energy world and they’d agree that energy storage in the next big thing in that industry. It’s at a point where you can’t add capacity without enough energy storage,” says Patrick Dodd, Mantra’s chief technology officer.
Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd., a Vancouver-based clean technology incubator and subsidiary of Mantra Venture Group, has developed its mixed-reactant fuel cell (MRFC) with the University of British Columbia (UBC) and with funding from the Clean Energy Research Centre and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

The company says the technology has the potential to reduce the complexity and costs of fuel cells because MRFC is platinum-and membrane-free, and doesn’t require any platinum-based electro catalysts. This eliminates the need for expensive and failure-prone electrolyte membranes and bulky bipolar plates.

Because there’s no membrane, Mantra says cost reductions of up to 68% over conventional fuel-cells are achievable. Another cost reduction of 25% is achieved because there aren’t any heavy flow plates.

In conventional fuel cells, the fuel and oxidant flow in separate streams and are kept apart by an ion-conducting membrane that divides the cell into anode and cathode chambers.

Mantra’s MRFC employs a mixture of fuel and oxidant flows through the cell as a single stream, allowing for a variety of conventional cell stack designs. This simplification is possible because the fuel cells operate without the gastight structures within the stack that are required for sealing, manifolding and separating reactant delivery in conventional cells.

It also integrates with another Mantra technology developed by Oloman and acquired by Mantra in 2008. Electro reduction of carbon dioxide (ERC) would fuel the MRFC by converting CO2 emissions into salable chemicals (and clean energy), such as formic acid.

“We’re trying to convert CO2 from high emissions industries into a fuel source that produces electricity,” says Amin Aziznia, the company’s process engineer. “There’s not enough platinum on earth to do that.”

Aziznia says MRFC will also work for traditional fuel cell applications, such as small electronics and electric cars.

If successful, the deployment of Mantra’s technology would be timely in Ontario where wind energy production has doubled over the last four years to 5.2 terawatt hours, according to the province’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO).

And 3,300 megawatts of renewable energy has been committed to Ontario’s electricity grid by the spring of 2015, making the need for storage capabilities increasingly imminent.

http://www.plant.ca/features/new-energy-mantra/

lg
horace

[stangman67]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.684.945 von horace am 24.03.14 08:36:52

@horace

warum musst du warten ?
Du kannst doch was anderes verkaufen und sofort einsteigen ....

Ja, das hat man halt leider oft, dass zunächst die PR-Abteilung besser funktioniert, als die tatsächlichen Ergebnisse der sogenannten Innovationen....

Kennst du dich aus, bist du vom Fach ?

[horace]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.685.533 von stangman67 am 24.03.14 09:35:00

Nein, ich bin nicht vom Fach.

Ich bin aktuell in NPWZ - Neah Power Systems - ebenfalls einen vielversprechenden Brennstoffzellen-Entwickler investiert.

Bei NPWZ rechne ich mit einigen 100% Gewinn in den nächsten Wochen/Monaten. Dern Erlös aus den NPWZ Trading Positionen sollte dann Mantra-Anteile finanzieren.

Mantra ist der vielversprechendste Investment-Kandidat, auf den ich seit Jahren aufmerksam geworden bin.

lg
horace

[kassier]

hallo zusammen,

wo kann man eigentlich den Kurs gut verfolgen ?
Berlin zeigt keine historischen an, WO auch nicht, bei advfn findet man nichts ??
bei finanztreff steht noch ein pps von0,0001

kassier

[stangman67]

...wird in D (noch ) nicht gehandelt.
Nur Nasdaq

www.nasdaq.com

[kassier]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.686.751 von stangman67 am 24.03.14 11:43:00

danke,

aber auch da finde ich es nicht, weder unter US5646561069 noch unter OTCQB:MVTG

und unter WO gibt es auch keine historischen usw.

kassier

[stangman67]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.686.813 von kassier am 24.03.14 11:51:57

ist doch ganz einfach:

www.nasdaq.com

dann im Suchfeld oben mantra eingeben ...

sollte gehen

[horace]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.686.715 von kassier am 24.03.14 11:36:37

hier kannst du den Mantra-Kurs gut verfolgen:

http://investorshub.advfn.com/Mantra-Venture-Group-Ltd-MVTG-…

lg
horace

[stangman67]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.687.005 von horace am 24.03.14 12:16:58

...was mich auch noch ein wenig stutzig macht:

Mantra ist ja wie Ballard auch in Kanada ansässig. Die Technologie kommt von kanad. Unis.

Wenn das wirklich was wäre, hätte sich das Ballard nicht längst geholt ???

[cash_is_king]

Interessantes Unternehmen. Bevor ich investiere würde ich allerdings gerne mal einen Blick in die Bilanzen werfen. Kennt jemand einen guten kostenlosen XBRL-Reader?

[horace]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.687.213 von stangman67 am 24.03.14 12:42:39

du bist nicht der erste, der sich diese Frage stellt:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_i…

aber es scheint zumindest was das Personal angeht zw. Matra/Tekion/Balllard Querverbindungen zu geben:
http://mantraenergy.com/mantra-boosts-management-team-with-a…

lg
horace

[horace]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.686.715 von kassier am 24.03.14 11:36:37

Der Chart von MVTG Mantra Venture Grp. an der OTC:
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/MVTG/chart

Ich habe w:o gerade geschrieben, und darum gebeten, daß die Charteinstellungen von MVTG Mantra Venture Grp. Chart auf Wallstreet:online aktualisiert werden, weil das sichtlich nicht mehr funktioniert.

lg
horace

[horace]

Für das laufende Jahr ist geplant Mantras Produkte/Technologien einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren. Soeben wurde eine Consulting-Firma unter Vertrag genommen:

http://www.otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilingHtml?FilingID=98733…

http://www.dcconsultingllc.com/investor.html

Bei Mantra scheint man 2014 Nägel mit Köpfen machen zu wollen!

lg
horace

[horace]

man hört im Zusammenhang mit Mantras Brennstoffzelle immer wieder von einem "swiss roll fuel cell" - Design. Das ist keine Andeutung auf eine Schweizer Technologieschmiede, sondern verdankt sich dem Umstand, daß die Brennstoffzellenkomponenten wie eine (Biskuit-)roulade aufgerollt sind - und nicht gestapelt wie sonst üblich. So eine Roulade nennt man im Englischen scheinbar auch "Swiss roll"

vgl. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_roll

lg
horace

[stangman67]

...kann mir eine Zusammenarbeit mit Ballard nicht so recht vorstellen ...

Wenn deren A-Säure-B-Zelle fliegt, hat dann nicht Ballard ein Problem ?

Plug könnte ja evtl. zukaufen/lizenzieren, aber Ballard ?

[horace]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.686.715 von kassier am 24.03.14 11:36:37

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=webchart&symbol=MVTG&period=0&…

lg
horace

[horace]

An der OTC hat man noch keine Ahnung von unserem frisch erwachten Interesse ... hoffen wir auf einen deutlichen Rücksetzer für einen günstigen Einstieg!

[kassier]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.686.845 von stangman67 am 24.03.14 11:55:10

o mann o mann, haste Recht

so passierts wenn mans kompliziert macht.

danke euch für eure Hilfe

kassier

[tantegrete13]

horace,

das teil fällt so wie du es dir gewünscht hast, zur zeit minus 16%
ich möchte auch günstig rein

tantchen

[horace]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.688.693 von kassier am 24.03.14 14:56:40

hier hast du den Link zum Real-Time-Chart:
http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=staticchart&s=NO%5EMVTG&p=0&t=…

lg
horace

[horace]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.689.527 von horace am 24.03.14 16:03:34

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=staticchart&s=NO%5EMVTG&p=0&t=…

sorry, der link war nicht verlinkt - jetzt klappts

lg
horace

[stangman67]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.689.541 von horace am 24.03.14 16:04:31

warum machen die nach dieser Kursperformance eigentlich keine Kapitalerhöhung?

Die haben so schlechte Kennzahlen und Null Cash. Das würde sich doch jetzt anbieten, die Kapitalbasis zu verbessern ....

[tantegrete13]

horace, du bist nicht auf dem laufenden

http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/6656877-mantra-off…

kursentwicklung

tantchen

[Popeye82]

Worauf ich, vor aaallem, jahrelang gewartet habe.
Die Ergebnisse dieser Auswertung werden extrem wichtig.
Die ALstom Vereinbarung ist, wie sicher bekannt, natürlich nicht ganz optimal.

Mantra Officially Launches Pilot Plant Project - Mar 25, 2014
www.marketwired.com/press-release/mantra-officially-launches…

"BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - March 25, 2014) - Mantra Energy Alternatives, a subsidiary of Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG), has officially entered into a contract with NORAM Engineering and BC Research Inc. (BCRI) to deploy a pilot plant for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (ERC). The procurement of custom equipment is set to begin shortly, in parallel with the completion of the final engineering. The project will culminate in construction and commissioning at the Lafarge cement plant in Richmond, B.C.

The ERC process converts carbon dioxide, the most prolific greenhouse gas, into useful chemicals such as (among others) formic acid and formate salts. The pilot plant will convert 100 kilograms per day of the carbon dioxide emitted from the Lafarge plant into concentrated formate salts, which are valuable products that sell for around $1,500 per tonne. Mantra anticipates future plant expansion that will see the production of formic acid and other products as well.

"This will be the first pilot plant of its kind in the world," says Patrick Dodd, VP, Corporate Development. "It will be a useful tool that we can adapt in the future to produce a range of different products from carbon dioxide."

Procurement will begin in parallel with the detailed engineering, with certain long-lead time pieces of custom equipment being ordered and built early to facilitate a timely deployment of the plant.

"We are now in a position not only to complete the engineering, but also to simultaneously begin procurement, and to begin construction as soon as possible," says Mantra President Larry Kristof.

BCRI is the R&D arm of NORAM Engineering and Constructors, providing engineering and scientific services in the commercialization of new technologies. Their highly experienced team specializes finding innovative solutions in the scale up of new processes to the demonstration phase and beyond.

Adds Mr. Kristof, "NORAM and BCRI have done incredible work thus far, and we are very pleased to have them engaged to complete the project."


About ERC

ERC, or the "Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide", is a form of "carbon capture and utilization" that converts the pollutant carbon dioxide into useful, valuable products including formic acid and formate salts. By utilizing clean electricity, the process offers the potential for an industrial plant to reduce emissions while generating a salable product and a profit.


About MRFC

In a conventional fuel cell, the fuel and oxidant flow in separate streams, separated by an ion-conducting membrane that divides the cell into discreet anode and cathode chambers. The single-cells are stacked electrically in series using bipolar flow-field plates that provide most of the stack weight and volume.

By contrast, in a mixed-reactant fuel cell, or "MRFC", a mixture of fuel and oxidant flows through the cell as a single stream. The mixed-feed concept allows for a variety of conventional and unconventional cell stack designs including the Mantra's patented Swiss-roll MRFC design. Simplification of MRFC systems is possible because they can operate without the gastight structures within the stack that are required for sealing, manifolding, and separating reactant delivery in conventional fuel cells. As a result, MRFCs can provide significantly less expensive fuel cell systems with high volumetric power density.


[color=green]About Mantra Venture Group[/color]

Mantra Venture Group is a public company quoted on the OTC QB under the symbol MVTG.

Follow Mantra on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mantraenergy

For more information go to: http://www.mantraventuregroup.com "

[tantegrete13]

ein paar sekunden früher

was aber viel wichtiger ist - wie wird sich das auf den heutigen kurs auswirken...und lohnt hier ein einstieg

tantchen

[stangman67]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.697.041 von tantegrete13 am 25.03.14 13:22:10

Die Frage muss erlaubt sein:

wie finanzieren die das; wer bezahlt die zu bestellenden Spezialteile; die haben kein Cash, sondern nur Schulden ?!

[tantegrete13]

liegt doch auf der hand. mit der einen oder anderen news wird der kurs nach oben gezogen.....ES FOLGT EINE KAPITALERHÖHUNG!!!

tantchen

[tantegrete13]

bei hypersolar hat es heute auch eine news gegeben, der grosse unterschied zwischen mantra und hypersolar ist, dass der kurs bei HS durch die decke ging

tantchen

[cash_is_king]

Habe gerade mal eine Order in NY hinterlegt - allerdings wird kein Kurs angezeigt. Seltsamerweise wird mir OTC nicht als Handelsplatz angezeigt. Hat jemand von Euch bei CortalConsors gekauft und wenn ja über welchen Handelsplatz?

[cash_is_king]

Meine Order wurde an der NYS ausgeführt. Dann bin ich mal gespannt, wie es hier weiter geht. :-)

[tantegrete13]

....wie es weiter geht...ganz klar - eine massive KE

ich lasse vorerst die finger weg von mantra.

tantchen

[cash_is_king]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.726.593 von tantegrete13 am 28.03.14 17:50:51

Wie lange reicht der Cash-Bestand Deiner Meinung nach noch?

[tantegrete13]

ich vermute, dass in den nächsten 2 bis 3 monaten eine ordentliche KE (VERDOPPELUNG der aktienanzahl) in´s haus steht.

mit ein paar millionen wird mantra ihre vielversprechenden projekte nicht umsetzen können.

ich habe aber keine ahnung wieviel cash die firma in der kriegskasse hat, oder wieviel geld die im quartal verbrennen.

auffallend ist nur, dass sich der kurswert bei sehr geringem umsatz sich vervierfacht hat.

tantchen

[cash_is_king]

Zitat von tantegrete13: ich vermute, dass in den nächsten 2 bis 3 monaten eine ordentliche KE (VERDOPPELUNG der aktienanzahl) in´s haus steht.

mit ein paar millionen wird mantra ihre vielversprechenden projekte nicht umsetzen können.

ich habe aber keine ahnung wieviel cash die firma in der kriegskasse hat, oder wieviel geld die im quartal verbrennen.

auffallend ist nur, dass sich der kurswert bei sehr geringem umsatz sich vervierfacht hat.

tantchen

Ehm, Du hast keine Ahnung, wie viel Cash die haben, rechnest aber mit einer Verdopplung der Aktienanzahl. Ist das eine reine Vermutung oder gibt es dafür irgendwelche konkreten Anzeichen?

[cash_is_king]

Was mir an der ganzen Sache allerdings gar nicht gefällt ist das hier:

http://datatoinformation.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/the-vancou…

[horace]

Yep - die Story von der "Vancouver Connection" liest sich gar nicht vertrauenserweckend.

Vor einigen Wochen hat auf investorshub ein User den selben Artikel (der aus dem Jahr 2009 stammt) zur Diskussion gestellt:
siehe Posting #19141: http://investorshub.advfn.com/Mantra-Venture-Group-Ltd-MVTG-…" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://investorshub.advfn.com/Mantra-Venture-Group-Ltd-MVTG-…


Erwiderung:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_i…

lg
horace

[Popeye82]

Kohle, macht keine Kohle.
Mehr.
dolle.
Alle lieben CCS.
Hurra.

Coal’s Future in Doubt, as Industry Headwinds Continue to Mount - E.com - Mar 28, 2014

- Meng Meng -
www.equities.com/editors-desk/stocks/materials/coal-s-future…

"Concerns of coal's prospects have been growing louder and louder over the past several years, leading to recent downgrades from Bank of America and Goldman Sachs to lower their outlook for the industry, citing concerns about the overcrowded market.

According to analyst Timna Tanners, metallurgical coal prices will hit their lowest levels since 2010 over the next several years, fetching a price between $130 to 150 per ton.

Coal companies traded lower as a result of the Bank of America downgrade. Shares of Walter Energy, Inc. (WLT) tumbled about 20 percent lower as a result but other coal stocks like Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) and Alpha Natural Resource (ANR) were among those to trade lower as well.

The downgrade comes on heels of a Goldman Sachs downgrade earlier this month, further indicating that the coal industry is suffering one of the bleakest periods in recent memory.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) predicted that coal production will slide to a new low in 2016, but then gradually pick up. Nevertheless, the Appalachia region, once representing the heart beat of coal mining industry, faces an uphill battle. Kentucky miners must deal with high shipping costs and a low percentage of surface mines.

In central Appalachia, where more than 10,000 mining jobs have evaporated since 2010, mining costs continue to rise as surface mines are running out. Compared with West Virginia and Wyoming, which are rich in high-sulfur coal, Kentucky’s low-sulfur coal is usually buried deep underground, requiring higher labor costs.

While detractors from the coal industry blame the Obama administration’s relentless carbon regulations for wreaking havoc and eliminating jobs, the broader picture here may be that overall demand for coal has been trending lower—and that trend may be permanent.

The overseas market consumes more than 70 percent of Virginia’s output on average, meaning the industry depends heavily on exporting. Over the past 10 years, foreign countries drove a 13-percent growth in metallurgical coal production across Appalachia. So when smog-choked China vowed in January to reduce coal consumption to under 65 percent of its total energy use, American producers were rattled.

On the domestic front, power plants from some of the largest coal-consumer states have been less willing to utilize coal to generate electricity. The transition is motivated by both regulatory and economic reasons.

In order to meet the EPA’s carbon dioxide standards, utilities providers now burn a mixture of coal, wood sawdust and natural gas. This significantly reduces their reliance on coal. The U.S.’s fracking boom has made shale gas abundantly cheap, and as a result, made coal less attractive. The most noticeable drop is in Georgia, where coal’s use to generate electricity has fallen to 50 percent from 65 percent in 2001.

The EPA is also churning out the toughest regulations on coal-fired plants this year, compared with the current carbon pollution standards. The proposal from the EPA to tackle greenhouse emissions will affect 600 power plants and possibly close hundreds of them, according to The New York Times.

Meanwhile, bigger miners are increasingly relying on debt to fund operations. As an example, Walter Energy recently issued $200 million in senior notes to finance old debt. The company has one of the highest debt-to-equity ratios in the industry at 3.69. Like the rest of the sector, Walter Energy’s stock price has been on a three-year slide from as high as the $140 level.

Shares of Alpha Natural Resource, the country’s largest coal producer, have also fallen from the $60 area to hover around $5 currently. For the fourth quarter of 2013, net losses widened to $358 million despite the company’s effort to cut spending and close down operations. Peabody Energy’s stock has tumbled from $72.63 in mid-2011 to around $15 per share. With revenue declining though 2013, the firm is diverting to developing markets like China and India.

While the near-term pictures look cloudy, coal companies are fighting hard to make a full-come back in the long run. Under attack by environmental group for years, coal wants to prove itself to be an economic driving force in developing country, and a reliable source of power in the U.S. "

[cash_is_king]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.729.373 von horace am 29.03.14 08:02:19

Danke für den Link. Dort wird auch eine wichtige Frage (hoffentlich korrekt) beantwortet, die bislang bei mir offen war: wer ist der/sind die Anker-Investoren bei Mantra? Kann man das ansonsten irgendwo in einem offiziellen Dokument nachlesen, wie hoch die Festbesitzanteile sind?

Was auf jedem Fall auf der Haben-Seite steht ist das Projekt mit Lafarge. Die werden (hoffentlich) wissen, was sie tun.

[cash_is_king]

Schon schräg das alles - habe eben noch eine andere Seite gefunden, in der über die "Vancouver-Connection" geschrieben wird, inhaltlich allerdings nichts neues.

Dem entgegen stehen die Dokumente bzgl. Lafarge und Alstom auf der SEC-Seite. Ich habe jetzt auch eine Quelle gefunden, wo das Projekt mit Mantra von Seiten Lafarge erwähnt wird:

http://albertaventure.com/2012/11/rene-thibault-takes-the-he…

Zitat:
>> We’re also, in some cases, trying to capture [the CO2]. At our facility in Richmond, B.C., we’ve chosen to work with Mantra Energy Alternatives because we think they have one of the better technologies, the most advanced, at the present time [through electrochemical reactions, the technology turns CO2 into a feedstock for fuels]. It’s not commercially viable, but it is interesting for us because they will use CO2 to create a product that is usable.” <<

"not commercially viable" ist natürlich schade, aber dafür wäre es wohl auch noch zu früh.

[a.mueller [wO]]

Zitat von kassier: danke,

aber auch da finde ich es nicht, weder unter US5646561069 noch unter OTCQB:MVTG

und unter WO gibt es auch keine historischen usw.

kassier

Nasdaq OTC rechts bei Handelsplatz anwählen, dort sind die aktuellen Kurse

Beste Grüße,
a.mueller

[cash_is_king]

Die Roadshow in Europa läuft offenbar recht gut:

http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/6691341-shareholde…

[cash_is_king]

Mantra gründet eine Niederlassung in Berlin:

http://mantraenergy.com/blog/2014/04/21/mantra-establishes-s…

[tantegrete13]

so richtig spannend wird´s, wenn mantra sein erstes büro in china eröffnet.


tantchen

[cash_is_king]

Kapitalerhöhung:

http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/6728258-mantra-mel…

„Wir sind mit dieser Finanzierungrunde äußerst zufrieden und hoffen, auch in den kommenden Monaten in dieser Hinsicht erfolgreich zu sein“,

- klingt so, als wäre da noch mehr in der Pipeline...

[cash_is_king]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.686.715 von kassier am 24.03.14 11:36:37

Versuch' mal cortalconsors.de

[tantegrete13]

china und indien werden bereits in der heutigen news erwähnt

http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/6733024-mantra-ann…" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/6733024-mantra-ann…



tantchen

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 46.907.460 von tantegrete13 am 01.05.14 20:20:55

Indien und China werden schon lange erwähnt.
Neben einem guten Dutzend anderer Länder.

Gruß
P.

[Popeye82]

IEA report confirms CCS critical, but too slow; The International Energy Agency(IEA) has published the 4th volume of its Energy Technology Perspectives report, which concludes that business-as-usual is not an option if we are to transition to a sustainable energy future - CCJ/IEA/ZEP - May 14, 2014
www.carboncapturejournal.com/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=3455
www.iea.org/Textbase/npsum/ETP2014SUM.pdf
www.zeroemissionsplatform.eu/library/publication/240-me2.htm…

"The report underlines that Carbon Capture and Storage has a critical role to play in decarbonizing the power sector and energy intensive industries as well as supporting energy efficiency.

Speaking after the publication of the report, Dr. Graeme Sweeney, ZEP Chairman, said, “We commend the IEA for this comprehensive report that reiterates the value of CCS in the mitigation of CO2 emissions. The report’s conclusions come at a crucial time in EU energy policy discussions on ensuring security of supply for Europe, while staying in line with our emission reduction objectives. Following recent political developments in its eastern neighbourhood, the EU faces an uncertain energy future. It is clear that we must increasingly look towards our indigenous energy sources – CCS plays an essential role in enabling this.”

“The IEA has made clear that CCS is crucial for decarbonizing large-scale fossil fuel use for power generation and in energy-intensive industry. The agency previously concluded that in principle this technology can reduce full life-cycle CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel combustion at power stations and industrial sites by 65-85%. Moreover, by providing flexible back-up power, CCS is an essential complement to renewables and energy efficiency,” Sweeney added.

Yet, the IEA has confirmed, as ZEP has often pointed out, that the deployment of CCS is occurring too slowly due to high costs and a lack of political and financial commitment. Increased progress in CCS research, development and demonstration is needed to ensure cost-competitiveness and timely deployment.

“Based on ZEP’s own analysis, if we act now, with the right investment framework and support measures, CCS can become commercially available post 2030. The next step is to scale up to large, integrated projects, which have a huge potential to drive down costs. This is achievable through the introduction of transitional support measures and the creation of a level playing field with other low carbon technologies. Ultimately, the EU must embed CCS in its energy security strategy and 2030 energy and climate framework,” Dr. Sweeney concluded. "

[Popeye82]

mit anderem Verfahrensansatz, aber Skyonic scheint auch noch biiischen ähnliche Firma zu sein.
http://skyonic.com/skymine/

Gruß
P.

[Popeye82]

Mantra Announces Establishment of New Facilities - May 29, 2014
www.marketwired.com/press-release/mantra-announces-establish…

"NEW YORK, NEW YORK--(Marketwired - May 29, 2014) - Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) and its subsidiary, Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd., have announced the establishment of new research and corporate facilities. A laboratory in the heart of Vancouver will now be home to the company's continually expanding R&Dteam, while a new head office in South Surrey will house administration and corporate development.

Mantra has established the new laboratory to accommodate a recent rapid expansion of personnel and research activities. The facility, located at 3590 W. 41st Avenue, Vancouver, is a combined laboratory and office, and is fully equipped with vital research equipment including fume hoods, water treatment, and a gas distribution network. The space will comfortably house Mantra's existing, new, and anticipated R&D projects.

"We believe that the move to this new facility will allow Mantra to continue expanding on its current trajectory, and reflects our maturation as a company," said Mantra's CEO Larry Kristof. "We would also like to thank BC Research, who have hosted us up to this point, and have provided valuable support and mentoring that has helped to accelerate our growth."

The laboratory's proximity to the University of British Columbia, with which Mantra is working closely through Professor ElodGyenge, is an additional asset. Professor Gyenge and Mantra have been developing a close relationship since the recent approval of aNSERC-funded fuel cell research project, which will further develop Mantra's novel MRFC technology.

"The research team is very enthusiastic about the new laboratory's proximity to UBC, as we see this as a way to facilitate further growth in our collaborative activities," said Patrick Dodd, Mantra's VP of Corporate Development.

The company's new head office is located at 1562 128th St., South Surrey. Likewise, this facility will accommodate the growth of Mantra's administrative and corporate development team.


About Mantra Venture Group

Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) is a clean technology incubator that takes innovative emerging technologies and moves them towards commercialization. The Company, through its subsidiary Mantra Energy Alternatives, is currently developing two groundbreaking electrochemical technologies designed to make reducing greenhouse gas emissions profitable, ERC (Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide) and MRFC (Mixed-Reactant Fuel Cell).

ERC is a form of "carbon capture and utilization" (CCU) that converts the polluting greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into useful, valuable products including formic acid and formate salts. By utilizing clean electricity, the process offers the potential for an industrial plant to reduce emissions while generating a salable product and a profit.

The MRFC is an unconventional fuel cell that uses a mixture of fuel and oxidant, thereby greatly reducing the complexity and cost of the fuel cell system. Ideal for portable applications, the MRFC is cheaper, lighter, and more compact than conventional fuel cell technologies.

Follow Mantra on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mantraenergy

For more information go to: http://www.mantraventuregroup.com


Forward-looking statements: Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements and are subject to risks and uncertainties. See Mantra Venture Group's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which identify specific factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements.


Contact Information

Mantra Ventures Group Ltd.
John Williams
Investor Relations
[phone] (Canada)
[phone] (USA)
[e-mail]

Mantra Ventures Group Ltd.
Company Contact
[phone]
[e-mail]
www.mantraventuregroup.com "

[Popeye82]

EPA's new carbon regulations could cut coal emissions by 20%, US President Barack Obama is expected to announce next week the 1st imposed limits on power plant emissions in the country's history
www.mining.com/epas-new-carbon-regulations-could-cut-coal-em…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.078.464 von Popeye82 am 31.05.14 03:24:17

USA planen 'CO2-Revolution', Regierung will den Ausstoß der Treibhausgase drastisch senken - DPA, WASHINGTON - Jun 2, 2014
http://web.de/magazine/nachrichten/ausland/18996848-usa-regi…

"Im Kampf gegen den weltweiten Klimawandel will US-Präsident Barack Obama die heimischen Kraftwerke dazu verpflichten, deutlich weniger Kohlendioxid auszustoßen.

Bis 2030 sollen sie ihre Emissionen um 30 Prozent gegenüber 2005 verringern. Dies sieht ein am Montag veröffentlichter Verordnungsentwurf der Umweltbehörde EPA vor.

Obama warnte, der Klimawandel sei real. "Er hat nicht nur Auswirkungen auf die ferne Zukunft, sondern ernsthafte Auswirkungen während wir sprechen", sagte er in einem Telefonat mit Vertretern mehrerer Gesundheitsorganisationen. Kraftwerke seien heute verantwortlich für 40 Prozent der CO2-Emissionen.

Die Verordnung soll Medienberichten zufolge in rund einem Jahr in Kraft treten. Umweltschützer lobten den Plan als historischen Schritt. Die Republikaner und Vertreter der Industrie kündigten Widerstand an.

Der Plan für "Saubere Energie" beschränkt laut EPA erstmals auf nationaler Ebene die Emission von Treibhausgasen, die Kraftwerke in die Luft pusten. Demnach dürfen aber die einzelnen Bundesstaaten selbst entscheiden, mit welchen Maßnahmen sie das Ziel erreichen. Möglich sind etwa effizienzsteigernde Umbauten bestehender Anlagen oder der vermehrte Einsatz von Wind- oder Solaranlagen zur Energiegewinnung. Auch ein Handel mit Emissionsrechten ist erlaubt. Ihre Planungen müssten die Staaten demnach bis Juni 2016 bei der EPA einreichen. Die USA sind nach China das Land mit dem zweitgrößten CO2-Ausstoß.

EPA-Chefin Gina McCarthy sagte: "Indem er sauberere Energiequellen stärkt und Energieverschwendung verringert, wird dieser Plan die Luft, die wir atmen, säubern und dabei helfen, den Klimawandel zu verlangsamen." Stromkraftwerke seien für rund ein Drittel des CO2-Ausstoßes in den USA verantwortlich. Auch die Emission anderer Giftstoffe werde durch das Vorhaben deutlich reduziert.

Nach Einschätzung der "New York Times" handelt es sich um eine der weitgehendsten Maßnahmen einer US-Regierung gegen den Klimawandel überhaupt. Sie könnte letztlich zur Schließung Hunderter Kohlekraftwerke und in den kommenden Jahrzehnten zu einer Wende in der Energiegewinnung führen, schrieb das Blatt unter Berufung auf Experten.

Obama hatte bereits im vergangenen Jahr angekündigt, entsprechende Regeln erarbeiten zu lassen. Er braucht dafür nicht die Zustimmung des Kongresses.

Die Republikaner reagierten dennoch prompt mit Widerspruch. Die verschärften Regeln seien "ein Dolchstoß ins Herz der Mittelschicht", sagte der Parteichef im US-Senat, Mitch McConnell. Die drohenden Schäden für die Konjunktur seien groß und die wirtschaftliche Macht der USA in Gefahr.

John Boehner, der republikanische Vorsitzende im Repräsentantenhaus, nannte die Klimaschutzpläne von Präsident Barack Obama verrückt. "Es gibt wirklich keinen passenderen Weg, es zu beschreiben.

"Die Regierung hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Kohle und die damit verbundenen 800 000 Stellen zu vernichten", sagte Senator Mike Enzi aus Wyoming laut dem Politikportal "Politico". Sollte dieser "Tod durch Regulierung" Realität werden, werde Strom in Zukunft knapp und teuer, meinte der Senator.

UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki Moon begrüßte hingegen den Vorstoß. Die geplanten Maßnahmen seien ein "bedeutender Schritt" hin zur globalen Reduzierung des Kohlendioxid-Ausstoßes, sagte Ban laut Mitteilung der Vereinten Nationen in New York. Ban rief alle Länder der Welt erneut auf, ihre Anstrengungen im Kampf gegen die Erderwärmung ebenfalls zu verstärken.

Mit den neuen Maßnahmen könnten die USA ihre 2009 zugesagten Ziele erreichen, den Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen im Land bis 2020 um 17 Prozent unter das Niveau von 2005 zu senken, meinen Experten. "Es ist der größte Schritt, den unser Land jemals getan hat, um gegen die Bedrohung des Klimawandels vorzugehen", sagte der Präsident der Washingtoner Umweltschutzgruppe EDF, Fred Krupp, in einer Mitteilung.

Obama wollte die Emissionen ursprünglich durch ein Klimagesetz begrenzen, hat dafür aber keine Mehrheit im Kongress. Stattdessen versucht er, seine Ziele mit Präsidenten-Erlassen zu erreichen. Grundlage ist ein Gesetz gegen Luftverschmutzung von 1970. "

[tantegrete13]

mantra hat die technik dafür warum soll in zukunft nicht jedes kohlekraftwerk mit mantratechnik ausgestattet werden? zudem wird ameisensäure produziert, die von z.b. firmen wie neah power für ihre BZ verwendet werden.

tantchen

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.121.000 von tantegrete13 am 07.06.14 12:17:35

Zitat von tantegrete13: warum soll in zukunft nicht jedes kohlekraftwerk mit mantratechnik ausgestattet werden?

Das ist sicher eine vollkommen unrealistische Vorstellung.
Denk mal eher breiter, aber, wenn, nicht mit so einer (pseudo)massiven Marktdurchdringung.

Gruß
P.

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.090.218 von Popeye82 am 03.06.14 01:51:34

EPA greenhouse regulations to place place the entire US economy @serious risk –Arch Coal
www.miningweekly.com/article/epa-greenhouse-regulations-to-p…

[Popeye82]

Mantra's CEO Provides Corporate Update to Shareholders - Jun 25, 2014
www.marketwired.com/press-release/mantras-ceo-provides-corpo…

"VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - June 25, 2014) - Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG), a clean technology incubator that takes innovative emerging technologies and moves them towards commercialization, and its subsidiary, Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd., have provided the following update letter to shareholders from CEO, Larry Kristof.

Dear Shareholders,

After completing a capital raise of approximately $1.7 million in April of this year, Mantra's management embarked on an extended tour to expand the business opportunities in foreign markets and identify project opportunities as well as potential business partners. Areas strategically targeted included Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Dubai, Australia, and the United States. This has led to the establishment of an office in Berlin and the identification of a large-scale project in the German state of Bavaria. Mantra is currently working with the Bavarian Office for Economic Development, which is providing a great deal of support in the development of this project.

The tour has additionally led to Mantra's application for an R&D laboratory in the world-class facilities of the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park (HKSTP). Mantra is seeking to operate out of the Phase 3 development of the 22-hectare waterfront park, which is targeting clean technologies and will house the sector's most innovative companies. The Park is an ideal entry point into East Asian markets.

China is taking massive steps in the field of clean technologies. The country's initiatives to deal with carbon emissions make it very receptive to technologies like Mantra's ERC, which is patent protected there. In addition, the vast number of electric vehicles and equipment make it an ideal market for Mantra's fuel cell.

The Company's activities in the US included attending and presenting at the Marcum Microcap Conference (NYC) and the LD Micro Conference (Los Angeles), that featured many unknown and below-the-radar companies that most institutions, retail broker dealers and accredited investors were hearing about for the first time. We believe our presentations and corresponding one-on-one meetings were well received as the Company continues to have ongoing communications with several institutions, accredited investors, and broker dealers. The Company is currently evaluating which conferences it will attend in the second half of the year. In addition, the Company will be scheduling a series of roadshows in the US and Europe to continue to broaden the financial and industrial communities that may be interested in Mantra's progress on its current initiatives to advance its disruptive technologies to commercialization; as well as any new projects and business opportunities that the Company is able to announce in 2014.

Industry Specialist Randy Gue visited Australia in May, which is the home of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Institute. As a result of meetings with the Institute and a subsequent application, Mantra has been approved for membership. Established in 2009, the Institute's 370 members from 40 countries form a collaborative community to promote and develop large-scale solutions for carbon emissions. As a member, Mantra will have access to this large network that includes governments, multi-national corporations, smaller companies, and research institutions, and through which projects and solutions can be built.

In Vancouver, Mantra's two demonstration projects are progressing on schedule. The final engineering and construction of the company's ERC pilot plant for carbon dioxide utilization is proceeding as planned with construction to be completed by year-end 2014 and the commissioning of the plant in the first quarter of 2015. On the fuel cell front, the development of a personal vehicle powered by Mantra's MRFC has received a boost through an award from Canada's federal funding body, NSERC. The award, given based on a collaborative project with Professor Elod Gyenge at the University of British Columbia, will directly address specific aspects of the MRFC chemistry and scale-up.

Looking forward, VP Patrick Dodd will be attending a networking conference at Aston University in Birmingham, UK, on July 8, 2014, on converting CO2 to chemicals. Organized by the well-respected CO2Chem Network, the event aims to bring together companies, universities and government to develop projects in the carbon utilization space. Mr. Dodd will be meeting with current and prospective partners to advance existing initiatives to capitalize on specific European funding opportunities. Mantra has become aware of this event and others through its beneficial relationship with UK Trade and Invest, which was established on a previous visit to London.

On July 27 through August 1, members of Mantra's management and scientific team will be part of a Canadian mission to Tokyo for the Renewable Energy World Fair 2014. Through invitation by the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service and the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Mantra will exhibit in the Canadian pavilion for the event that covers all renewable energy technologies including fuel cells, electric vehicles, and energy storage.

Japan has a demonstrated commitment to the adoption of fuel cell technologies, and we believe Mantra's MRFC, which has never been marketed there before, will draw both collaborative partners and future customers.

Mantra has additionally expanded its corporate team and established a new corporate office in Surrey, BC. These additions and further expansions of the company's R&D team will be announced in the coming weeks, the latter being accommodated by Mantra's new laboratory facility. This facility will host an open house in August, and interested parties are encouraged to contact [e-mail] for details.

Sincerely,
Larry Kristof
Chief Executive Officer


About Mantra Venture Group

Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) is a clean technology incubator that takes innovative emerging technologies and moves them towards commercialization. The Company, through its subsidiary Mantra Energy Alternatives, is currently developing two groundbreaking electrochemical technologies designed to make reducing greenhouse gas emissions profitable, ERC (Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide) and MRFC (Mixed-Reactant Fuel Cell).

ERC is a form of "carbon capture and utilization" (CCU) that converts the polluting greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into useful, valuable products including formic acid and formate salts. By utilizing clean electricity, the process offers the potential for an industrial plant to reduce emissions while generating a salable product and a profit.
The MRFC is an unconventional fuel cell that uses a mixture of fuel and oxidant, thereby greatly reducing the complexity and cost of the fuel cell system. Ideal for portable applications, the MRFC is cheaper, lighter, and more compact than conventional fuel cell technologies.
Follow Mantra on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mantraenergy
For more information go to: http://www.mantraventuregroup.com "

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.090.218 von Popeye82 am 03.06.14 01:51:34

China Announces Aggressive Action, to Cut HFCs - ENN/HFC/IGSD/SC/EPA/DoD/WH, WASHINGTON DC - May 28, 2014
www.enn.com/press_releases/4269
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/08/united-states…
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/06/united-states…
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2014/0526/c1001-25065061.htm…
http://igsd.org/documents/HFCPrimerMay2014_001.pdf

"China announced an aggressive target for reducing emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by the equivalent of 0.28 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2015. The State Council released the HFC target to the public on 26 May 2014. It appeared on 15 May 2014 in the 2014-2015 Energy Conservation, Emissions Reduction and Low Carbon Development Action Plan.

China’s announcement follows two HFC agreements President Obama and President Xi negotiated last year, including an agreement to launch formal negotiations to reduce production and consumption of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol. The 20 largest economies also endorsed phasing down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol last year, leaving accounting and reporting in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

On May 16, the Federated States of Micronesia filed a formal proposal to use the Montreal Protocol to phase down production and consumption of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol, and the North American countries (US, Canada, and Mexico) filed a similar proposal on May 9.

The US also is taking strong action to reduce HFCs domestically, as is the EU. HFCs are super greenhouse gases hundreds to thousands of times more potent in their warming impact than carbon dioxide, and are the fastest growing climate pollutants in many countries, including the U.S. EU, China, and India. Fast reductions by 2020 could provide the equivalent of up to 200 billion tonnes of CO2 in mitigation by 2050, and avoid up to 0.5°C in warming by 2100.

“China should be congratulated for its strong HFC target, which sets an example for the rest of the world to get on with the job of phasing out HFCs with high global warming potential,” stated Dr. Stephen O. Andersen, former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) liaison to the Department of Defense (DoD) for climate and ozone, and former co-chair of the Technology & Economic Assessment Panel of the Montreal Protocol. “China’s action makes it increasingly inevitable that HFCs will be phased down under the Montreal Protocol, and soon.”


Contact Info:

Durwood Zaelke [e-mail], [phone]
Katie Fletcher [e-mail], [phone] "

[tantegrete13]

hier auf deutsch

http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/6837814-mantras-ce…

tantchen

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.227.506 von tantegrete13 am 28.06.14 22:45:28

Wenn Du magst kann ich nochmal einen erklärenden Artikel(teil) raussuchen was Beton mit Emissionen zu tun hat, wie dis funktioniert.
Und im Prinzip dann eben auch Mantra mit(Lafarge(plant)).
Das ma zum Thema was ich mit 'sicher vollkommen unrealistisch' und 'breiter denken' mein(t)e.
(Kohle)Kraftwerke sind sicher lange nicht alle potenziellen Einsatzgebiete, da gibt's ne Ecke mehr Shit.

Gruß
P.

[Popeye82]

Most states need more cuts, to meet proposed CO2 rule: SNL Energy - M.com/SNLE - Jun 28, 2014
www.mining.com/web/most-states-need-more-cuts-to-meet-propos…
www.snl.com/InteractiveX/article.aspx?cdid=A-28267816-13092&…
www.snl.com/InteractiveX/articleabstract.aspx?id=28357168&KP…
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"As the nation continues to digest the U.S. EPA's proposed CO2 emissions limits for covered existing power plants, industry experts have highlighted competing factors influencing the ability of states to reduce CO2 emissions in the face of the proposed regulation.

While considerable uncertainty remains about the nature of the proposed rule and how states would implement it, SNL Energy Research and Advisory Services projections of a business-as-usual case without the rule show that most states would see their CO2 emissions decline but they would need to take additional steps to comply with the rule.

In conducting the analysis, SNL Energy projected CO2 emissions for units covered by the EPA's Clean Power Rule in 47 of the 49 covered states, taking the impacts on future unit dispatch from upcoming coal retirements spurred by the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards as well as expected renewable generation growth. State-level emissions rates for covered units were then adjusted for the addition of new and existing renewable generation, the avoided retirement of at-risk nuclear units and new nuclear units under construction. (To see more details on SNL Energy's methodology, please see the "About the data" section below.)

Those projections show that 40 of the states analyzed by SNL and covered by the EPA's proposed CO2 emissions rule are on track to post a decline in adjusted CO2 emissions rates compared to 2012, but only six states would see their CO2 emissions rates fall below the EPA's proposed requirements without taking specific steps to comply with the rule.

Meanwhile, the projections show seven states increasing their average emissions rates from existing sources compared to 2012, while 41 states would have higher CO2 emissions rates in 2030 than the final emissions rate goal set by EPA.


2012 emissions rates could prove a tough year to beat

While EPA's announcement mentioned a goal of a 30% decrease in CO2 emissions by 2030 from 2005 levels, 2012 average emissions rates for coal and gas-fired generation facilities were used in setting the 2030 target rates. Utilizing 2012 emissions rate data as a base year could prove to be a tough year to beat as states try to hit 2030 emission rate targets set by the EPA. A variety of factors collided to create a perfect storm of rock bottom average emissions rates in 2012, with some of those factors already subsiding, resulting in increased emissions in 2013.

Natural gas prices, which plunged to better-than-10-year lows in 2012, were a major catalyst for CO2 emissions from power generation hitting the lowest levels seen over the past decade. With the explosion of supply from shale gas and mild weather, 2012 Henry Hub yearly average spot natural gas prices were $2.76/MMBtu, down 31% compared to the 2011 annual average. Sustained low prices throughout the year made gas-fired generators extremely economical to run and caused an unprecedented amount of coal to gas switching. Coal plants — the highest-emitting source of CO2 among generators — found themselves increasingly out of the money, while more efficient, lower CO2-emitting gas units accounted for almost 30% of net generation in 2012. Coal, which accounted for about 51% of net generation in 2002, had fallen to 38% of net generation among all fuel sources in 2012.

As coal-fired generators occupied a seat further down the dispatch curve in 2012, low energy demand in the United States further decreased the amount of CO2 emissions in 2012. Total retail electric sales declined about 1% in 2012 to 3,702,641 GWh from 3,755,779 GWh in 2011. Mild winter weather helped keep retail electric demand low in 2012. Nationally, heating degree days were 21% below the norm for the first quarter. While all three months in the quarter experienced lower-than-average HDDs, March proved to be exceptionally mild: HDDs were trailing 36% compared to the historical average and the previous year.

Additionally, net generation from renewables is a carbon-free source that provides substantial bottom line impact to a state's average CO2 emissions rate. 2012 proved to be a banner year for electricity creation from renewable sources as projects partially spurred by government incentives became operational. Wind saw an impressive increase of about 17% on 139,727 GWh of net generation in 2012, up from 119,892 GWh in 2011. Meanwhile, net generation from utility-scale solar facilities more than doubled, recording 4,408 GWh in 2012 compared to 2,019 GWh in 2011.

While more capacity is expected from renewables in the immediate years ahead — the wind sector is working through a pipeline of safe-harbored wind projects that are still eligible for the production tax credit, and the solar industry has the 30% investment tax credit through 2016 — future renewables growth could suffer if those programs are not renewed.


SNL Energy projections show emissions rates falling, for most states

Under SNL Energy's business-as-usual scenario, the largest CO2 adjusted emissions rate decreases would occur mostly in the Pacific West and Northeast. Many of these states utilize renewable generation and have an RPS program in place to incentivize future build.

Oregon posts the largest decrease in CO2 emissions rates by 2030 with an almost 47% drop to 381 lbs/MWh, from a rate of 717 lbs/MWh in 2012. Although the state is anticipated to have 14,770 GWh from renewable generation by 2030, emissions from fossil-fueled generation from existing sources take a sharp downward turn as the state's only coal unit is forecast to cease operation toward the end of the decade.




California posted the second-largest decrease in 2030 forecast adjusted CO2 emissions rates. The state is expected to emit 421 lbs/MWh in 2030, an almost a 40% drop from the 2012 rate of 698 lbs/MWh. California's place as a leader in CO2 emissions reductions comes as little surprise. In 2013, the state implemented a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, only phase one of the program is in effect, which includes all major industrial sources and electric utilities. Phase two will start in 2015, and will encompass distributors of transportation fuels, natural gas and other fuels.

According to SNL Energy's forecast, average unadjusted CO2 emissions rates from plants fired by fossil fuels within California would actually increase slightly, rising about 1% in 2030 to 931 lbs/MWh from the 2020 level of 919 lbs/MWh. The main driver in decreasing the adjusted CO2 emissions rate is the state's planned addition of renewables. According to SNL Energy estimates, renewable generation within California will account for almost 72,244 GWh in 2030 — making it far and away the largest producer of renewable energy in the U.S.

Although the bulk of states are forecast to reduce their adjusted CO2 emissions rates compared to the EPA's 2012 base year, a handful do experience higher future emissions rates. Idaho posts the largest increase, up about 51% to about 513 lbs/MWh, compared to 2012 CO2 emissions rates of 339 lbs/MWh. Idaho currently has neither a renewable portfolio standard nor goal in place.

Mississippi — another state lacking an RPS — is expected to have the second-largest increase in CO2 emissions rates from existing sources. Adjusted carbon emissions rates would rise to 1,320 lbs/MWh in 2030, an increase of almost 21% from 2012 levels of 1,093 lbs/MWh, as coal generation gains in market share of total covered-source generation. Mississippi would have almost no CO2 emissions offset from renewable generation. The state is expected to have the lowest contribution of net generation from renewables in the nation, at about 19 GWh in 2030.

Texas, another notable state that could see an increase in adjusted CO2 emissions rates absent further action, is projected to see the adjusted CO2 emissions rate rise nearly 15% from 1,284 lbs/MWh in 2012 to 1,473 lbs/MWh by 2030. While Texas does have an RPS program, requirements under that program have already been satisfied, so any new renewables would have to be driven by the market. Texas also saw coal-to-gas switching in 2012, which effectively pushed down CO2 rates for existing sources. Relative to the 2012 base year, coal gains market share among existing sources in Texas as coal-versus-gas economics improve. Significant load growth — some of the strongest in the nation — also drives further usage of the coal fleet going forward.


SNL Energy projections show most states above EPA goals

According to SNL Energy projections, 41 states would have higher CO2 emissions rates in 2030 than the final emissions rate goal set by EPA — not including future gains from existing energy efficiency, which could bring adjusted emissions rates closer to in line with EPA targets, but were not included in the analysis. The Southeast and Gulf states, many of which do not incentivize renewable generation through RPS, saw some of the largest variances between 2030 projections and EPA final emissions rate goals.




Among states on track to meet the 2030 final emissions rate goal, Maine exceeded the target by the most. The state is expected to have an adjusted CO2 emissions rate of 268 lbs/MWh, almost 30% lower than the 2030 final emissions rate goal of 378 lbs/MWh, and although the state would exceed the target, Maine would barely decrease its unadjusted CO2 emissions rate in 2030 — 872 lbs/MWh compared to 873 lbs/MWh in 2012. Instead, an increase in renewable generation drives much of the emissions reductions for the state; by 2030, almost 7,269 GWh is expected to be from renewable sources. Maine could very well cut emissions further under the target as the state has energy efficiency rebates and loan programs.

Behind Maine was another renewable-heavy state, California, which is projected to exceed its goal by almost 22%.

Idaho would fall short of the final emissions rate goal by the largest variance with a projected rate of 513 lbs/MWh, almost 125% above the target of 228 lbs/MWh. While Idaho does not have an RPS in place, it has a number of ongoing energy efficiency efforts, which could help to lower its adjusted CO2 emissions rates once factored in. Idaho is one of only nine states that offer an income tax deduction for energy efficiency. Idaho also offers utility-level rebates and state- and utility-level loans to incentivize energy efficiency.

Although Washington is expected to cut 2012 CO2 emissions rates by about 38%, the state would still miss its 2030 final emissions rate goal by the second-largest variance of almost 117%. The state is projected to have an adjusted CO2 emissions rate of 465 lbs/MWh, compared to the EPA goal of 215 lbs/MWh. Achieving the additional required reductions under the final emissions goal could require changes, as there are currently no statewide tax incentives, rebates, grants or loans for energy efficiency. The only state-level energy efficiency program is a green building incentive that applies to low-income residential property. However, the state does have various utility-level rebates, grants and loans for energy efficiency.


Coal generation expected to increase, versus gas without CO2 rule

Among existing sources, output from coal and gas units comprises the vast majority of covered generation. With a large disparity between the CO2 emissions rates of gas and coal plants, changes to the relative share of generation coming from coal and gas can have a big impact on realized CO2 emissions rates.

Although 40 states covered under SNL Energy's carbon emission forecast would post a decline in adjusted CO2 emissions rates from existing sources in 2030 compared to 2012, 34 states would increase their percentage of total coal and gas generation coming from coal in 2030, relative to the 2012 base year.

In 2012, coal generation accounted for about 57% of total coal and gas generation for included existing sources among the contiguous U.S. covered under the rule. SNL Energy projects the proportion of coal to gas generation to rise in 2030, with coal increasing its share of net generation about 9 percentage points to almost 66%.




Natural gas prices rising from the rock bottom experienced in 2012 is one of the major drivers for coal generation regaining some of its market share from gas. Low prices from shale gas fracking drove all but the most efficient coal units to the margin in 2012. In 2014 prices at the Henry Hub have generally remained above $4/MMBtu, allowing more coal units to be cost competitive. After falling from early 2014 price spikes on cold winter weather, natural gas prices have begun to creep toward $5/MMBtu at the Henry Hub as ongoing natural gas storage deficits continue to pressure markets.

Upward pressure on gas prices is expected to continue as the nation builds almost 41 Bcf/d of export capacity. Although the first facility — trains 1 and 2 of the Cheniere Energy Inc.-owned Sabine Pass Liquefaction Project — is not expected to be complete until 2016, the significant outflow of gas to foreign countries may have an impact on domestic gas prices.

According to the 2014 "Annual Energy Outlook" from the U.S. Energy Information Administration that compared prices and changes in real 2012 dollars, natural gas prices are expected to rise almost 89% from 2012 values to $6.49/MMBtu in 2030. Coal, on the other hand, is anticipated to be $2.93/MMBtu, an increase of about 22% compared to the 2012 price of $2.39/MMBtu.

New Jersey would see the largest percentage point shift in coal generation compared to total coal and gas generation within the state. Coal-fired generation would increase to 32% of the generation between the two sources, an increase of about 21 percentage points from about 11% in 2012.

Texas would see the second-largest shift from gas to coal by 2030, up more than 17 percentage points to about 61% compared to 44% in 2012.


Introduction of carbon taxes

One of the key mechanisms for reduction of average CO2 emissions rates under the EPA's proposed rules is redispatch of coal generation toward natural gas. In order to assess how carbon prices might influence the dispatch of coal versus gas and thus resulting CO2 emissions rates, SNL Energy ran dispatch simulations with carbon taxes introduced for generators not participating in existing state-level or regional CO2 cap-and-trade programs.

Among states without an existing CO2 cap-and-trade program, Virginia would see the largest decline in its carbon emissions rate with the introduction of a $10/ton carbon tax. The unadjusted CO2 emissions rate from existing sources for the state in 2030 are expected to be 1,432 lbs/MWh, but a $10/ton carbon tax would cause an almost 13% drop in emissions rate, to 1,251 lbs/MWh.

The second-highest impacted state due to the introduction of a carbon tax would be Mississippi. Highly reliant on fossil fuels, the state would experience a decline in unadjusted emissions rate of almost 12%, from 1,344 lbs/MWh under the business-as-usual case to 1,186 lbs/MWh with a $10/ton tax. Other Southeastern states would also likely see sizable reductions in CO2 emissions rates from the introduction of a modest carbon tax as these states were some of the first to see price-based coal-to-gas switching after 2010 and generally have the least disparity between coal and gas economics.




In states with efficient units burning low-cost Powder River Basin coal, a $10/ton carbon tax would likely have little impact. If Oklahoma instated such a tax, unadjusted emissions rates would decrease to 1,593 lbs/MWh from 1,651 lbs/MWh under the business-as-usual case. However, if a $20/ton tax were introduced, the CO2 emissions rate would drop almost 17% to 1,372 lbs/MWh.

Louisiana would experience a similar outcome, achieving an almost 3% reduction in CO2 emissions from a $10/ton carbon tax. A $20/ton tax would bring the business-as-usual 1,502 lbs/MWh CO2 rate down about 13% to 1,300 lbs/MWh.



About the data

SNL Energy examined projected CO2 emissions for existing units included in the EPA's Clean Power Rule for existing sources. The list of included generating units from the EPA was used to establish resource participation and includes generators added since 2012 as well as units under construction as of January 2014. Sources of CO2 emissions located on Native American lands are excluded from state-level aggregations: South Point Energy Center, within Arizona; Navajo Generating Station, within Arizona; Four Corners Power Plant, within New Mexico; and Bonanza Power Plant, within Utah. Emissions for included units were aggregated by state for each forward year from 2020 to 2030 under a business-as-usual, or BAU, case, as well as two additional cases that examine the impact of carbon taxes on generator dispatch and resulting emissions. Emissions were assessed from forward dispatch simulations using the Auroraxmp tool. Auroraxmp is a power market simulation tool based on an hourly dispatch engine that simulates the dispatch of power plants in a chronological, multizone, transmission-constrained system and is widely used for electric-market price forecasting, resource valuation and market risk analysis.

SNL Energy's BAU case considers the impacts on future unit dispatch from upcoming coal retirements spurred by MATS as well as other programs expected to be in place such as state RPS requirements, but does not consider the impacts of the new EPA carbon rules. Unit dispatch also was examined under the BAU case with the addition of carbon taxes including a carbon tax of $10/ton (in 2010 dollars) placed on participating units which do not have a current CO2 market structure in place (non-RGGI and California) as well as a $20/ton (in 2010 dollars) tax.

For each state, an output weighted average CO2 emissions rate was calculated for each forward year studied that represents an aggregate unadjusted emissions rate for participating fossil units. In addition to published historical unadjusted emissions rates, the EPA also published an adjusted 2012 CO2 emissions rate for each state. The adjusted emissions rate is calculated by taking an output weighted CO2 emissions rate for covered sources and altering it by adding to the denominator generation from non-hydro renewables as well as the assumed generation from new nuclear capacity under construction and a state-level estimate of generation from avoided at-risk nuclear retirements. This effectively reduces weighted average emissions rates by including in the weighted average these carbon-free resources.

For comparison purposes, SNL Energy calculated a similar forward looking adjusted CO2 emissions rate using the EPA's own assumptions for under construction and at-risk nuclear capacity as well as projected renewable capacity based on existing and planned renewables as well as renewables likely to be built under existing state RPS requirements. This adjusted emissions rate is calculated for illustrative purposes and is not intended to be indicative of state compliance with the new carbon rules. This adjusted rate also does not include the impacts of efforts already underway in states to promote energy efficiency, which also would tend to lower the adjusted CO2 emissions rate for a state. "

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ein altes Interview zu Mantra.
Erklärt ein bisschen die Entstehung -als Clean Tech Incubator-, und den Werdegang.
www.thegreenbaron.com/Webcasts.htm

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Cutting costs of CCS -Part 2 - EG/CO2TC/SINTEF, MONGSTAD - Jun 30, 2014

- Claira Lloyd, Sigmund Størset, Amy Brunsvold, Kristin Jordal, Øyvind Langørgen, Rahul
Anantharaman, David Berstad, Mario Ditaranto, Jørn Bakken, Richard Blom, Thijs Peters, Karl Anders Hoff, Partow Pakdel Henriksen, Marie-Laure Fontaine -
www.tcmda.com/PageFiles/1544/SINTEF%20report.pdf
www.energyglobal.com/news/special-reports/articles/Cutting_C…
www.energyglobal.com/news/special-reports/articles/CCS_cost_…

"The level of political interest in CCS is inevitably leading to companies developing new and more efficient technologies, and this is made clear in the new TCM commissioned SINTEF report outlined in the first installment of this two part article series.

The report provides an independent assessment of the maturity of 23 next generation CO2 capture technologies, with 12 of these categorised as post combustion technologies, three as oxy combustion technologies and eight as pre combustion technologies. Importantly, the milestone report highlights the ability of these next generation methods to cut current costs by up to 50% and, given that up to 80% of the costs of CCS are related to CO2 capture, this is a real watershed in the global mission to decarbonise the energy sector.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) last year released its Roadmap for CCS, which set out plans to use CCS in 30% of global energy production in order to stay below two degrees of global warming. President Obama and US EPA in early June 2014 announced their draft rule for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US, which applies to coal burning power plants and requires a 30% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030. The rule allows each state to create their own plans for complying with the new rules and it is likely CCS will have a key role to play in enabling them to cut emissions from their coal fired plants. The next step in translating this political will into viable projects is to progress testing of cost cutting CO2 capture technologies, and TCM provides the crucial infrastructure to do this.

Many of the processes detailed in the SINTEF report have been confined to lab and pilot tests, including those using precipitating solvents, polymeric membranes and low temperature separation. Taking those technologies out of the lab and onto a commercial scale is exactly the reason that our demo facility CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) exists. Given finding ongoing investment can be challenging, testing new technologies prior to construction in a full scale environment, is also useful to demonstrate the commercial realities of CCS to investors to secure ongoing R&D funds.

The SINTEF report showcases the variety of players participating in knowledge sharing in the industry: those involved in the development of new CO2 capture technologies include coal, oil and gas companies (e.g. GE, Shell, Alstom, Clodic, Ereie, Total, Statoil, BP, Chevron), module developers (e.g. AirLiquide, Teknip), powder suppliers and ceramic producers (e.g. AirProducts, Praxair), technology suppliers (e.g. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), universities and research institutes. TCM’s collaboration with the likes of Peterhead, Boundary Dam and Quest, as well as the founding of the Test Centre Network, provides further evidence of this. The purpose of this knowledge sharing is to help bring CCS closer to commercialisation and, by sharing this report, TCM is encouraging a step change in carbon capture technologies.

There is clear potential for CCS to become cost competitive with other forms of low carbon generation and testing of this significant pipeline of CO2 capture technologies is minimising costs and investment risk for the industry. Already by the 2020s the price of CCS is expected to have dropped to £ 100 /MWh.

By focusing on international collaboration and learning from other testing projects, CCS commercialisation is being accelerated. Key players in the industry are collectively creating the momentum for a standardised group of CCS technologies, which will provide investors and policy makers with the security they need. By working together the industry can also address other key issues, including developing skills, the supply chain, storage and CCS infrastructure.

The SINTEF report drives home the importance of information sharing on a global scale to advance the industry and create a legacy of technology and infrastructure that will enable the market to fly once policy and a firm regulatory regime are in place. The range of the next generation technologies being advanced will encourage competition and, while not every technology will succeed, by standing on the shoulders of previous technologies to reduce cost and risk, full scale and cost effective deployment of fossil fuel generation with CCS can become a market reality.


Written by Frank Ellingsen, Managing Director, CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad.

Edited by Claira Lloyd "

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Mantra Announces US Patent, for Fuel Cell - Jul 8 2014
www.marketwired.com/press-release/mantra-announces-us-patent…

"VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - July 8, 2014) - Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) and its subsidiary, Mantra Energy Alternatives, have announced the granting of the US patent for its Mixed-Reactant Fuel Cell (MRFC) technology. US Patent No. 8,709,680 B2, titled "Mixed Reactant Flow-By Fuel Cell", is the second issued for the MRFC, the first being the British patent GB 2474202 (2012). Mantra owns the exclusive worldwide license for this technology, which has been patented by its owner, Professor Emeritus Colin Oloman, a key member of the company's Scientific Advisory Board.

The MRFC is an unconventional fuel cell that promises to simplify and reduce the costs of fuel cell systems. Because it uses a mixture of fuel and oxidant, the expensive, failure-prone membrane can be eliminated and the balance of the system correspondingly simplified, offering the potential for a smaller, lighter, and cheaper fuel cell. The MRFC additionally uses liquid fuels, thereby avoiding the myriad difficulties associated with the storage and distribution of gaseous hydrogen.

The awarded patent covers several liquid fuels and various cell configurations such as the novel Swiss-roll architecture. The fuels covered include formic acid and its salts, products that can be derived through the conversion of the global warming agent carbon dioxide by Mantra's other process, ERC. The integration of these two technologies represents a unique opportunity in the field of energy storage, a rapidly growing market that is recognized as the key to renewable energy technologies.

"The granting of a US patent is a verification of the novelty and uniqueness of the MRFC," said Mantra's CEO Larry Kristof. "This news comes at the perfect time for Mantra, as we are currently accelerating our development work toward a demonstration of the technology."

Part of this acceleration includes the addition of Piotr Forysinski (Ph.D.) to the Mantra team as Product Development Engineer for the fuel cell. Dr. Forysinski, who obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from UBC and his MChem from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, brings to Mantra an impressive breadth of engineering experience. This includes the construction and commissioning of a custom molecular beam epitaxy system and a 30 mK scanning tunneling microscope, and the design, construction and operation of a novel mass spectrometer with a tune-able XUV laser light source and custom-built ion optics. For the latter project, Dr. Forysinski, then a graduate student, lead the team in the technical design and construction of the apparatus.

"We are extremely excited about the addition of Dr. Forysinski to the Mantra team," said VP of Corporate Development Patrick Dodd. "He has a truly unique set of skills and has already shown his ability by contributing to the reactor design."


About Mantra Venture Group

Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) is a clean technology incubator that takes innovative emerging technologies and moves them towards commercialization. The Company, through its subsidiary Mantra Energy Alternatives, is currently developing two groundbreaking electrochemical technologies designed to make reducing greenhouse gas emissions profitable, ERC (Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide) and MRFC (Mixed-Reactant Fuel Cell).

ERCis a form of "carbon capture and utilization" (CCU) that converts the polluting greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into useful, valuable products including formic acid and formate salts. By utilizing clean electricity, the process offers the potential for an industrial plant to reduce emissions while generating a salable product and a profit.

The MRFC is an unconventional fuel cell that uses a mixture of fuel and oxidant, thereby greatly reducing the complexity and cost of the fuel cell system. Ideal for portable applications, the MRFC is cheaper, lighter, and more compact than conventional fuel cell technologies.

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Beijing takes air pollution by the horns, imposes use of clean coal, This is the 1st time China enforces the use of clean coal, +it follows a series other pollution-curbing measures - M.com/X/R/EIA, BEIJING - Jul 12, 2014

- C. Jamasmie -
www.mining.com/beijing-takes-air-pollution-by-the-horns-impo…
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/12/us-china-pollution-…
www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/world/asia/air-pollution-linked-t…
www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=16271&src=email
www.mining.com/china-to-shut-down-2000-coal-mines-this-year-…

"China’s capital Beijing will begin next month imposing the use of cleaner low-sulphur coal across all industries, as part of the country’s ongoing plan to cut the alarming rates of air pollution and reduce its dependency on the fossil fuel.

According to official news agency Xinhua, the city will also implement strict controls and targets for airborne sulphur from coal. Air pollution is a major problem for the People's Republic – according to one study it killed 1.2 million people in 2010.



- Linfen, China | Image from archives. -


This is the first time the Asian nation enforces the use of clean coal and it follows a series other pollution-curbing measures.

The most touted of all was the recent decision to shut down about 2,000 small coal mines this year, with a total capacity of 117.48 million tonnes.

The country also wants to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in its overall energy consumption to 10.7% in 2014, in an effort to further improve its energy efficiency, control energy consumption, optimize the energy mix and guarantee energy supply.



- Source: EIA, 2014. -


The idea of closing down mines is nothing new to China, which accounts for about 50% of the world's coal consumption. In 2012 alone Beijing shut down 628 medium-sized coal mines, improved technological processes of 622 mines, merged 388 mines and phased out 97.8 million tons of outdated production facilities.

Last October, the Chinese government vowed to close at least 2,000 small coal mines by 2015 over safety concerns. The news came only a month after it said it wouldn’t allow more coal-fuelled installations near Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong, in an effort to curb air pollution in the country’s most industrial regions. "

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China +US sign deals on climate change, Sharing of information on clean coal power technology among eight pacts between world's two biggest emitters - TG/R - Jul 9, 2014
www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/09/china-and-us-sig…

"The United States and China on Tuesday signed eight partnership pacts to cut greenhouse gases, bringing the world's two biggest carbon emitters closer together on climate policy.

The deals, which involve companies and research bodies, were signed in Beijing ahead of a two-day visit to China by top Obama administration officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.

The signing was attended by Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of China's influential economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Todd Stern, the lead US climate treaty negotiator at the US State Department, Obama adviser John Podesta and Lee Zak, director of the US Trade and Development Agency.

In one of the memoranda of understanding (MOUs), China's Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute, a subsidiary of state-owned power company China Huaneng and Washington-based Summit Power Group agreed to share information on clean coal power generation technology.

Huaneng is part of a Chinese consortium operating a 400-MW pilot integrated gasification combined cycle plant in Tianjin.

Under the pact, Huaneng will share information with Summit Power, which is expected to soon break ground on a similar project in Texas after it secures engineering and procurement support from Petrochina and Chinese engineering firm Huanqiu Contracting and Engineering.

The MOU is expected to be signed on Wednesday in Beijing.

Summit, in turn, will share information and technology for recovering oil from captured carbon.

"This (pact) accelerates sharing of information on carbon capture and storage for power," said Julio Friedmann, deputy assistant Secretary for Clean Coal for the US Department of Energy.

The partnership will be a boon to both countries, said Laura Miller, a former mayor of Dallas who now manages the Texas Clean Energy Project.

"We will be sharing expertise, years of development experience and non-proprietary technology on both projects, all while making giant steps forward for the world's environment," she said in an interview.

Another project partners West Virginia University with Yanchang Petroleum on an industrialized demonstration of ultra-cleaning technology in northern Shaanxi province.

The University of Kentucky, another coal state university, will partner with Shanxi Coal International Energy Group and Air Products and Chemicals Inc on a project feasibility study for a 350MW supercritical coal-fired power plant that can capture 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year.

At a news briefing in the Chinese capital on Wednesday, the NDRC's Xie welcomed the closer partnership of the world's top two CO2 emitters, but said more was needed in areas such as technological cooperation.

"Developing countries are most concerned that they get funds and technological support from developed countries," he said. "On this issue, we are still having great difficulties and we have to put forth more effort."

China has led the way in trying to persuade developed countries to set up financing mechanisms to help poorer nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change.

The issue remains a major stumbling-block in talks on a new global accord, with the United States and others reluctant to commit funds.

Xie told Chinese media on Tuesday that wider two-way talks would include a special high-level meeting on climate change, focused on discussing domestic and international policies and possible cooperation.

The US delegation is in China for the sixth round of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, which are high-level meetings on cooperation in areas from security to agriculture. "

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Overview: Environmental and regulatory issues for coal companies - MR - Jul 8, 2014

- By Mayur Sontakke -
http://marketrealist.com/2014/07/overview-environmental-regu…

" Environmental and regulatory issues

While it’s the cheapest source of energy, coal is also the most polluting fossil fuel. Power plants emit harmful pollutants such as mercury, arsenic, nickel, and sulfur dioxide in the air. While coal accounted for 19% of overall U.S. energy consumption in 2013, it resulted in 32% carbon dioxide emission in the same year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (or EIA) report.




With the goal of a cleaner environment in mind, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (or EPA) has issued carbon dioxide emission standards and mercury and air toxic standards. The first standard requires new coal-fired power plants to limit carbon dioxide emission to 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide (or CO2) per megawatt hour. This means that new plants will have to reduce uncontrolled carbon dioxide emission by 50% compared to existing plants by employing a mechanism called CCS (or carbon, capture, sequestration). In CCS, carbon dioxide is captured, compressed, and transported underground using pipelines. The carbon dioxide is then stored in rock formations usually a mile or more beneath the earth’s surface which reduces the environmental pollution.

While CCS can address the emission issue associated with coal-fired plants, its economic and technological viability is under question. The mechanism is relatively new. It was first commissioned in Germany in 2008. The added cost of implementing CCS and the projected growth in natural gas production means that fewer new coal-fired power plants will come on-line after retirement of existing ones. The retired coal plants may be replaced by gas-fired plants depending on how the price dynamics play out at that point in time. The subdued demand for coal will limit the growth in coal production as reflected in the EIA’s projection of sub 10% growth in coal production from 2012 to 2040. In the same period, the natural gas production is expected to more than double. The capped demand paints a grim picture of the coal sector in the U.S.

For the existing coal-fired power plants, the EPA has proposed rules that mandate them to cut carbon dioxide emission by 30% by 2030 over 2005 levels.

This isn’t good news for pure play coal producers (KOL) such as Peabody Energy (BTU), Arch Coal (ACI), and Alpha Natural Resources (ANR). The impact for coal and gas players such as Consol Energy (CNX) needs to be evaluated.

The environmental and regulatory issues aren’t the only bad news for the coal sector. The sector is also marred by global issues. Continue reading the next sections in this series to learn more. ..."

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http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/6870506-mantra-ven…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.321.934 von tantegrete13 am 16.07.14 20:25:56

Ich hoffma dass das eine vernünftige, und keine reine Smallcap Pushertruppe ist.
Was für's Eeerste gut aussieht.
Das Interessante liegt findichaba abseits der Headline Story.
Projekt in Bayern würd ich sär gut finden, denk dann liegt die Chance hoch dasdass ein Opener wird.
Ma abgesehen von dem ganzen EU Förderberechtigungskrahm.

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noch ne andere Co2 Bude.

Carbon capturing pioneers achieve breakthrough results
www.miningweekly.com/article/carbon-capturing-pioneers-achie…

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Britain to fund SA carbon trading experiment, Britain will expand funding for a programme to help coal-rich South Africa develop a carbon trading market, in an attempt to rein in its rising greenhouse-gas emissions. The British High Commission in Pretoria last week said it will fund a pilot emissions trading programme from next year to help companies prepare for a R120/t($11.21/t) carbon tax, that is expected to come into force in 2016
www.miningweekly.com/article/britain-to-fund-sa-carbon-tradi…

" Britain will expand funding for a programme to help coal-rich South Africa develop a carbon trading market in an attempt to rein in its rising greenhouse-gas emissions.

The British High Commission in Pretoria last week said it will fund a pilot emissions trading programme from next year to help companies prepare for a R120/t ($11.21/t) carbon tax that is expected to come into force in 2016.

The value of the grant was not disclosed.

The launch of South African's carbon tax, which would apply to major emitters including steel giant ArcelorMittal, utility Eskom and petrochemical group Sasol, was delayed by one year to allow more time for planning and consultation with stakeholders.

The South African government earlier this year said major emitters will be allowed to use carbon offsets, which could be generated by investment in domestic or possibly regional clean energy sources, to help meet their tax obligations.

The British High Commission's grant, awarded through its Prosperity Fund, will for a second time go to Johannesburg-based Promethium Carbon.

"Funding from the Prosperity Fund will assist to fast track the development of a local carbon trading system in preparation for the carbon tax," said Robbie Louw, a director at Promethium.

Promethium was first selected by the Commission to carry out a 2013 preliminary study as to whether a carbon offset market could complement the tax and help ease costs for industry.

Promethium said the first phase of the study found such a market could function, so a second phase, expected to conclude next February, will focus on how to start trade and on launching a pilot market on the JSE from 2015.

Promethium estimates South African offsets could reach prices of around R80 to R100 ($7.48 to $9.35) per tonne in the first couple of years of the market's existence - or nearly 20 times the value of credits offsets in the UN carbon market, the world's largest and most liquid.

More than 80% of South Africa's soaring greenhouse-gas emissions come from its energy sector, which is heavily reliant on coal - one of the country's major exports.

Expected to be phased in over time, the country's carbon tax is one of several initiatives, including a biofuels production incentive and higher vehicle emission taxes, which South Africa wants to launch to help reduce its growing carbon footprint.
Edited by: Reuters "

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Mantra Venture Group Expands Scientific Advisory Board - Jul 23, 2014
www.marketwired.com/press-release/mantra-venture-group-expan…

"VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - July 23, 2014) - Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) has announced the addition of Professor Plamen Atanassov and Dr. Alexey Serov, both of the University of New Mexico (UNM), to its Scientific Advisory Board. These two highly respected researchers will contribute their considerable expertise to the development of Mantra's technologies, particularly in the field of electro-catalyst design and synthesis.

"We are thrilled to welcome two more world-class researchers to the Mantra team," said CEO Larry Kristof. "We see the continued addition of such experts as an ongoing validation of Mantra's technologies."

Professor Plamen Atanassov (Ph.D.) is the Founding Director of UNM's Center for Emerging Energy Technologies and a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in 1995, and since then has been heavily involved in applied electrochemistry and the development of fuel cell electrocatalysts. This work has primarily taken place at UNM, where Professor Atanassov has been successful in partnering with such companies as Daihatsu, Ballard, and CFD Research Corp., but also includes being a project leader in electrocatalyst development at Superior MicroPowders LLC (now Cabot Corp.).

Professor Atanassov's current research is focused, among other things, on the development of non-platinum and platinum group metal catalysts. Funding from the US Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) supports his work. Professor Atanassov has ongoing research collaborations with many universities in several countries, including a number of US National Laboratories, and has published some 220 peer-reviewed journal articles. He holds more than 30 US and international patents.

Dr. Alexey Serov (Ph.D.) is a Research Assistant Professor at UNM's Center for Emerging Energy Technologies. After graduating with an Honor Diploma and Gold Medal from the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University, he worked for five years as a researcher in that institution's Division of Inorganic Chemistry. He then worked as a Senior Researcher at the Samsung SDI R&D Center in the Republic of Korea, for which he was awarded "Best Foreign Researcher", before obtaining his Ph.D. from the Paul Scherrer Institute and University of Bern with a focus on the chemical properties of Super Heavy Elements and their homologues.

Dr. Serov's current research at UNM is directly related to that of Professor Atanassov, and is focused on the synthesis of multicomponent inorganic materials and catalysts by conventional and advanced solution, solid state and ultra-sonic techniques, and the synthesis and characterization of nano-crystalline catalysts for energy storage and conversion applications. He has published nearly 30 peer-reviewed journal papers on electrocatalysis, and is named on dozens of issued US and international patents.

Both researchers are recognized as leading experts in the field of electrocatalysis, a reputation that has led to ongoing collaboration with Daihatsu Motor Company (a member of Toyota Motor Co.) on fuel cell development.

Professor Atanassov and Dr. Serov collaborated with Mantra's Dr. Amin Aziznia while he was completing his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. This collaboration, on the development of selective catalysts for the mixed-reactant fuel cell (MRFC) for which Mantra has the exclusive worldwide license, led to the highest reported open-circuit voltage for any mixed-reactant system. These results were published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at a conference of the Electrochemical Society.


About Mantra Venture Group

Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) is a clean technology incubator that takes innovative emerging technologies and moves them towards commercialization. The Company, through its subsidiary Mantra Energy Alternatives, is currently developing two groundbreaking electrochemical technologies designed to make reducing greenhouse gas emissions profitable, ERC (Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide) and MRFC (Mixed-Reactant Fuel Cell).

ERC is a form of "carbon capture and utilization" (CCU) that converts the polluting greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into useful, valuable products including formic acid and formate salts. By utilizing clean electricity, the process offers the potential for an industrial plant to reduce emissions while generating a salable product and a profit.

The MRFC is an unconventional fuel cell that uses a mixture of fuel and oxidant, thereby greatly reducing the complexity and cost of the fuel cell system. Ideal for portable applications, the MRFC is cheaper, lighter, and more compact than conventional fuel cell technologies.

Follow Mantra on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mantraenergy

For more information go to: http://www.mantraventuregroup.com "

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Big oil "braces for 10-fold surge, in carbon emission costs" - E-B/BB/CDP - Dec 6, 2013
www.eco-business.com/news/big-oil-braces-10-fold-surge-carbo…
www.cdp.net/CDPResults/companies-carbon-pricing-2013.pdf

"International oil producers are bracing for carbon emission costs to soar to almost 10 times current prices in Europe, the world’s largest greenhouse gas market, as governments around the world escalate efforts to curb climate change.



- Oil producers and power generators are using internal carbon Price estimates for long-term planning. Image: Shutterstock -


Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), the biggest energy company by market value, is planning future capital investments on the assumption that it will be required to pay $60 a metric ton for carbon emissions.

That’s the highest among 11 U.S. and European corporations that provided figures in a report released today by CDP, a nonprofit that compiles environmental performance data for investors. Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and BP Plc (BP/) are planning on $40, and Total SA (FP) anticipates a carbon cost of $34, according to the New York-based group formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project.

Those estimates compare to European Union carbon credits that closed today at 4.64 euros ($6.34), according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Companies involved in extracting and processing hydrocarbons such as crude oil and natural gas must ensure that multibillion-dollar investments remain profitable for decades under even the strictest environmental rules, said Deborah Gordon, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s energy and climate program.

“Nobody builds infrastructure that costs tens of billions of dollars to last for a 5- or 10-year lifespan,” said Gordon, a former Chevron Corp. (CVX) chemical engineer. “These things are built to have 100-year lifetimes, so these companies have to think about what regulatory regimes will look like way beyond the next presidential election cycle.”


Google, Disney

Oil producers and power generators are the biggest users of internal carbon price estimates for long-term planning among the companies that disclosed specific figures, CDP said. Ameren Corp. (AEE), a St. Louis-based electricity and gas distributor, uses a $30 carbon benchmark. ConocoPhillips, the Houston oil explorer that spun off its refineries and chemical plants last year, employs carbon estimates that range from $8 to $46.

Exxon has been factoring future carbon costs into project planning since 2007, Alan Jeffers, a spokesman for the Irving, Texas-based company, said today in an e-mail.

“Although climate policies remain uncertain today, for the purposes of our business planning we assume that governments will continue to gradually adopt a wide variety of more stringent policies to help stem greenhouse gas emissions,” he said.

Other companies plugging carbon costs into planning assumptions include Google Inc. and Walt Disney Co., according to CDP. Google, the Mountain View, California-based online search provider, uses a $14 benchmark while Disney ranges from $10 to $20, according to the report.


Asymmetric risks

Oil and gas companies face “asymmetric risks” that regions currently without significant greenhouse-gas limits will impose costs or penalties in the future that may threaten the profitability of major capital investments such as offshore platforms or refineries, Guy Turner, chief economist at Bloomberg New Energy Finance in London, said in a telephone interview.

“We are in an incredibly uncertain environment right now with some countries going forward, some going back, so these companies are trying to future-proof their investments,” Turner said. “No one knows what’s going to happen with carbon policy over the next 10 or 20 years.”

Some countries are backtracking on climate-change policies, including Australia, which is debating legislation to repeal a carbon tax.


Rising seas

Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels are expected to set off a chain reaction of higher temperatures, rising seas and violent weather systems, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. said in a June note to clients. Among energy producers, BP and Shell are among the most at risk because of the large fuel-producing plants they own in low-lying areas close to oceans, Sanford’s Oswald Clint, Rob West and Iain Pyle said in the note.

Sea levels may rise as much as 2 meters (6.6 feet), swamping refineries, liquefied natural gas terminals, oil-tanker berths and even Shell’s Pearl gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar, which was built just 3 feet above sea level, the Sanford analysts wrote.

Sea levels already are on the rise, having climbed 15 to 20 centimeters during the 20th century, the Sanford analysts said, citing research published in the Journal of Geodynamics last year. More worrying, the analysts said, is that the rate has been accelerating in the past decade.


International companies

As more and more carbon is belched into the atmosphere and temperatures escalate, the world’s oceans are projected to rise another 0.5 to 2 meters by the end of this century, the Sanford analysts said, citing estimates compiled by the National Research Council, which advises the U.S. government on scientific matters.

“Companies that have international operations are especially astute to carbon pricing as a response to the regulatory environments in which they operate, such as Europe or Australia, where GHG emissions reductions are mandatory and covered by mandatory cap-and-trade programs or carbon taxes,” the CDP said in its report. "

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Firm cements ways to convert waste, into energy - E-B/PDI - Sep 26, 2013
www.eco-business.com/news/firm-cements-ways-convert-waste-en…

"With energy costs rising and climate change now a major concern, a local cement company has come up with ways to convert garbage into fuel and heat into electricity.

Around 60 metric tons of garbage from Payatas landfill will be processed daily to be used as alternative fuel for cement manufacturing, following Lafarge Republic Inc.’s (LRI) inauguration of its Refused Derived Fuel (RDF) facility in Rizal on Wednesday.

LRI president Renato Sunico called it a “pioneering green technology project” in the local cement industry since it would allow them not only to save on fuel costs but also to address the disposal problem of the Payatas dumpsite which receives 8,000 tons of solid waste per day.

Don Lee, country CEO of Lafarge Holdings (Philippines) Inc., said the facility was a “manifestation of [their] efforts to be a responsible company and meet the challenges of society, as well as play an active role in the development of the communities” where they operate.

A local partner of French company Lafarge, the world’s largest cement manufacturer, the LRI now has three RDF facilities in its Luzon plants, one in Teresa town in Rizal and two in Bulacan.


Carbon footprint

Sunico said their company’s goal was to produce quality cement while “consciously reducing its carbon footprint.”

According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the cement industry is the second biggest source, next to power generation, of carbon emissions which contribute to human-induced climate change.

In addition to the RDF facility, LRI’s Teresa plant has a Heat Recovery System (HRS) which for two years has been using steam turbines to convert excess heat from cement production into electricity.

Lee said the HRS, which is the first in the country, generates 4.5 megawatts of electricity and helps the plant reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 12,000 tons per year.

The company said the cement plant was now 30 percent less dependent on the Luzon power grid because of the HRS.

In 2011, the HRS project was approved as a Clean Development Mechanism by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It was also recognized by the Department of Energy for saving 8.5 million liters of oil and preventing12.6 kilos of carbon dioxide emissions.

Before the RDF, Lafarge also used rice husk as an occasional substitute for coal, the primary energy source for cement production. It helped reduce the company’s energy expenses, lower their cement production’s impact on the environment and utilize what used to be agricultural waste.

The LRI has also followed the example of foreign cement companies in using industrial by-products such as fly ash and bottom ash as supplement to cement.


From dumpsite to fuel

Sunico said they have partnered with Mundo Verde Corp., a consortium that includes a Lafarge subsidiary, which sorts and processes solid waste from Payatas before delivering it to their RDF facility.

“What they did is that they hired (garbage) scavengers as employees,” Sunico said.

Plant manager Lloyd Vicente also showed a diagram of the waste sorting process at Payatas.

“From the garbage collection, the waste is transported to the trommel screen (a machine) which separates the organic waste,” Vicente said.

Sunico explained how the employees would sort out combustible materials (that produce heat and power when burned) from recyclable materials such as paper and plastic, before passing through a metal separator.

“After that, it goes through a shredding machine to turn it into ‘fluff’ that is easier to transport,” he said.

The fluff or finely shredded material is then processed and wrapped in plastic for transport to their plant in Rizal.

According to Vicente, the processed waste undergoes “cement kiln co-processing” which turns it into fuel while simultaneously manufacturing cement.

The combined operation involves burning the organic compounds into gases through the cement kiln (with a temperature that can reach up to 2,000 degrees Celsius) and utilizing the inorganic materials in the production of cement.

The process uses up all the materials and leaves “no residual waste” for disposal, Vicente said.

Sunico said the project was their contribution to protecting the environment, by helping reduce waste in the Payatas landfill.

“Metro Manila alone is generating around 8,000 tons per day of solid waste…This is the crisis that we are facing now. Sooner or later if we don’t act, what will happen to the Philippines? We will soon be buried in garbage,” Vicente said.

During Wednesday’s press conference, LRI also inaugurated the Teresa Cement School which would help train their employees from all over the country on technical and leadership skills. The school has training rooms and a workshop area showing samples of the machines used in the plant.

French Ambassador to the Philippines Gilles Garachon lauded Lafarge which he said was ahead of its competitors because it has substantial investments in research and development. "

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The "Coming Carbon Asset Bubble"; Al Gore: "Avoid Big Oil…”Carbon Bubble” Is Going to Burst"; The Daily Ticker's Aaron Task interviews former U.S. Vice President Al Gore[+Video] - FY/WSJ - Oct 30, 2013

- David Blood Al Gore -
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/coming-carbon-asset-bubble-232…

"After the credit crisis and Great Recession, it seemed ridiculous to have thought that investing in subprime mortgages was a good idea. As with most market "bubbles," the risk of giving 7.5 million mortgages to people who couldn't possibly pay them off was somehow invisible to many investors at the time.

One reason such bubbles form is the tendency by many investors to confuse "risk" with "uncertainty." As the economist Frank Knight established, there is a subtle but crucial distinction between the two: Uncertainty is what good investors usually fear the most, because it cannot be measured or priced as risk can be. But when investors mislabel risk as uncertainty, they become vulnerable to the assumption that since it cannot be measured, they might as well ignore it.

That is exactly what is happening with the subprime carbon asset bubble: It is still growing because most market participants are mistakenly treating carbon risk as an uncertainty, and are thus failing to incorporate it in investment analyses. By overlooking a known material-risk factor, investors are exposing their portfolios to an externality that should be integrated into the capital allocation process.

Here is the relevance of carbon to investing: There is consensus within the scientific community that increasing the global temperature by more than 2°C will likely cause devastating and irreversible damage to the planet. Reliable measurements make it clear that we will easily cross this threshold in the near term at our current rate of CO2 emissions. So in an effort to avoid it, the International Energy Agency has calculated a global "Carbon Budget" that accommodates the burning of merely one-third of existing fossil fuel reserves by 2050. Put differently, at least two-thirds of fossil fuel reserves will not be monetized if we are to stay below 2°C of warming—creating "stranded carbon assets."

A stranded asset is one that loses economic value well ahead of its anticipated useful life. Stranded carbon assets include fossil fuels, as well as those assets which, given their dependence on fossil fuels, are also CO2-emissions intensive. Not all carbon-intensive assets are created equal, and it is reasonable to assume that in carbon-constrained scenarios the projects with the highest break-even costs and emissions profile (e.g., tar sands and coal) will be stranded first.


Many investors cite what we believe is a misinformed view that carbon assets will not be vulnerable to stranding until a meaningful carbon price is enforced by a global accord. While a global price on carbon certainly would be important, we believe that investors are mistaken to assume that is the only path to stranding carbon assets. We believe that any such strategy is unwise and increasingly reckless—because of three broad risks:

First is regulation that could strand assets in several ways: direct regulation on carbon led by authorities at the local, national, regional, or global level; indirect regulation through increased pollution controls, constraints on water usage, or policies targeting health concerns; and mandates on renewable energy adoption and efficiency standards. Even the threat of impending regulation creates uncertainty for long-lived carbon-intensive assets.

Second, stranding may occur as a result of market forces. Renewable technologies are already economically competitive with fossil fuels in a number of countries without subsidies. This cost competitiveness, combined with the ability to secure stable long-term prices for power, and an increase in distributed electricity models, could continue to shift capital allocation way from fossil fuels.

Third, sociopolitical pressures (e.g., fossil-fuel divestment campaigns, environmental advocacy, grass-roots protests and changing public opinion) could create an environment in which carbon-intensive businesses could lose their "license to operate," thereby stranding assets.


Delaying action to mitigate climate change will not delay climate change itself. As such, investors can strand fossil-fuel energy assets today, or absorb the cost of inaction by causing a much larger stranding across industries and asset classes in the future. The case to incorporate carbon risk into both equity and debt valuations now is one of short- and long-term prudent risk management. There are four principal ways investors can do this:

First, identify carbon asset risks across portfolios. At a minimum, investors should determine the extent to which carbon risk is embedded in current and future investments. This can be achieved by, for example, considering the key drivers of a company's current and future asset base in the context of carbon risks and developing tools that quantify risks for valuations. Note that passive, index tracking funds should also identify their exposure to carbon risks since they too are vulnerable to stranding as fossil fuel-dependent assets make up roughly 10%-30% of most major exchanges.

Second, engage corporate boards and executives on plans to mitigate and disclose carbon risks. Investors should ask questions like: Do companies have a shadow price on carbon (if not, why not?) and how does it impact their cash position? What is the amount of carbon they plan to burn and how does it relate to their long-term strategic plan? Investors should pressure executive teams to divert cash flow away from capital expenditures on developing fossil fuels and toward more productive uses in the context of a transition to a low carbon economy.

Third, diversify investments into opportunities positioned to succeed in a low-carbon economy. Investors should tilt portfolios away from assets with embedded carbon risks and toward assets with low or no carbon emissions. Investors have the opportunity to capitalize on emerging solutions such as: energy generation (e.g., solar, wind, geothermal); buildings (e.g., insulating materials, lighting, metering); and transport (e.g., engines, electric vehicles, fleet logistics). This hedging strategy will buffer the impact an extreme carbon risk event might have on a portfolio while potentially capturing the upside of the transition away from fossil fuel assets.

Fourth, divest fossil fuel assets. This is certainly the surest way to reduce carbon risk, though we fully recognize that divesting can be complicated and may be difficult for many asset owners. Such a transition could be phased in over several years, and there are gradations; early and easy progress can be made by at least divesting from the most emissions-intensive forms of energy—especially since they are likely to face stranding well ahead of less carbon-intensive fossil fuels.


In the words of President John F. Kennedy, "There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." The transition to a low carbon future will revolutionize the global economy and present significant opportunities for superior investment returns. However, investors must also acknowledge that carbon risk is real and growing. Inaction is no longer prudent.

Mr. Gore is a former vice president of the United States and is now chairman of Generation Investment Management. Mr. Blood is senior partner of Generation Investment Management. "

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China to ban all coal use in Beijing, by 2020 - EE/AP/XNA/BMEPB - Aug 5, 2014
www.environmental-expert.com/news/china-to-ban-all-coal-use-…

"China's smog-plagued capital has announced plans to ban the use of coal by the end of 2020 as the country fights deadly levels of pollution, especially in major cities.

Beijing's Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau posted the plan on its website Monday, saying the city would instead prioritize electricity and natural gas for heating.

The official Xinhua News Agency said coal accounted for a quarter of Beijing's energy consumption in 2012 and 22 percent of the fine particles floating in the city's air. Motor vehicles, industrial production and general dust also contributed to pollution in the 21 million-person city.

Even with the Beijing ban, coal use is expected to soar in China. Coal-fired power and heating is a major generator of greenhouse gases and has helped turn China into the world's largest emitter of carbon and other heat-trapping gases.

Pressure is growing on China's central government to clean up the country's polluted environment, as discontent over smog and water and soil contamination increases among China's expanding middle class.

The central government recently listed environmental protection as one of the top criteria by which leaders will be judged.

In September, the government announced a prohibition on new coal-fired power plants around Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. "

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.339.224 von Popeye82 am 20.07.14 04:31:48

noch eine.

Econic Technologies is developing catalysts, to integrate CO2 in plastic manufacturing Technology

"Econic Technologies is developing new catalysts to facilitate manufacturing polymers from CO2. Econic's technology enables CO2 to replace up to 50% of conventional feedstock, which translates into significant cost benefits for polymer manufacturers as well as additional environmental benefits.

Econic's underlying technology was developed at Imperial College London by a team led by Prof. Charlotte Williams, Professor of Chemistry at the College, which produced a series of catalysts that can blend CO2 with epoxides to produce polycarbonates and other polymer precursors.


Market

The global plastics market is estimated to be worth nearly £20 billion per annum, with the market for catalysts representing £1 billion.


Investment History

To date, Econic has raised nearly £8 million in investments, including a £5.1 million Series A funding round led by Imperial Innovations in December 2013. The company is backed by Jetsream Capital, a US Venture Capital investor and Norner Verdandi, the technology commercialisation arm of Norner, a major polymer consultancy. It has also received grants from government bodies including Climate-KIC and the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change.
www.imperialinnovations.co.uk/ventures/portfolio/econic-limi… "

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[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.490.379 von Popeye82 am 12.08.14 04:37:37

Artikel, dazu.

New York Energy Week 2014 Startup Showcase - CT/F360.tv - Aug 11, 2014

- Sarah Backhouse -
http://cleantechies.com/2014/08/11/new-york-energy-week-2014…

" Future360 covered the Cleantech Startups Showcase which featured 40+ of the most innovative and exciting cleantech companies developing groundbreaking, carbon-reducing technologies. A handful of the companies competed pitch-style in front of the live audience, for the opportunity to win an Audience Award and Judges Award.


This was a rare opportunity to see many high quality, cutting edge cleantech companies from the Northeast (and some international) all in one place, and meet the founders who are making it all happen. In partnership with the Northeast’s top organizations working in cleantech – including NECEC Institute, NYC ACRE, PowerbridgeNY, and Cleantech Open Northeast – this event was a can’t-miss regional summit for investors and startups alike. "

[Popeye82]

die Brötchen sind nicht mehr ganz frisch.
Aber die Seite ist muss ich sagen saaaaaaaaaaaaaa geil, was -nicht nur, aber auch- rund ums Thema CO2 angeht.

Accelerating the uptake of CCS: industrial use of captured carbon dioxide, The fundamental purpose of this report is to investigate existing +emerging uses of CO2 +to review the potential to capture +reuse CO2for industrial applications, in order to accelerate the development +commercial deployment of CCS. It considers both the near-term application of mature technologies such as enhanced oil recovery(EOR) +the longer term application of a number of promising new technologies, that are still in the initial stages of their technical development - GCCSI/PB - Dec 20, 2011
http://decarboni.se/sites/default/files/publications/14026/a…
http://decarboni.se/publications/accelerating-uptake-ccs-ind…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.519.635 von Popeye82 am 14.08.14 20:05:06

Key Investments in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Technologies from 2000 Through 2010, by Energy Firms, Other Industry +the Federal Government - T2&a/API - Oct11

- Thomas Tanton -
www.api.org/~/media/Files/News/2011/2011_api_ghg_investment.…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.529.220 von Popeye82 am 15.08.14 17:15:21

letztendlich auch Teil meiner Grundthese, was das Anlegen für die nächsten Jahre, und vielleicht darüber hinaus, angeht.

"Commenting on the findings of the report, API vice president for Policy and Economic Analysis Kyle Isakower said in a prepared statement that the energy industry is "aggressively pursuing new technologies and game-changing energy research that will fuel innovation for years to come . investments [that will] not only lower carbon emissions, [but] create jobs and advance America's technological competitiveness."

As the largest trade association for the oil and natural gas industry, API represents over 480 energy companies based in the United States and overseas.

"Clearly, the U.S. and global energy industry is entering a new era of sourcing, producing and transporting oil and gas in an increasingly responsible and environmentally-sound manner," Mr. Bigger added. "Over the past several years STWA has ideally positioned itself as an approved vendor of industry-certified flow assurance technologies to help meet the carbon neutral objectives of our customers.""

[Popeye82]

So isses.
Ich schliesse mich dem -im Speziellem rot Markiertem- vollkommen an.

Copper nanofoam turns CO2, into useful chemicals - NW/ACSC/BU/NSF - Aug 12, 2014
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cs500522g
www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=36904.php

" A catalyst made from a foamy form of copper has vastly different electrochemical properties from catalysts made with smooth copper in reactions involving carbon dioxide, a new study shows. The research, by scientists in Brown University’s Center for the Capture and Conversion of CO2, suggests that copper foams could provide a new way of converting excess CO2 into useful industrial chemicals.

The research is published in the journal ACS Catalysis ("Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 at Copper Nanofoams").



- A foam of copper. Copper is the only metal that can reduce CO2 to useful hydrocarbons. A foam of copper offers sponge-like pores and channels, providing more active sites for CO2 reactions than a simple surface. (Image: Palmore lab/Brown University) -


As levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continue to rise, researchers are looking for ways to make use of it. One approach is to capture CO2 emitted from power plants and other facilities and use it as a carbon source to make industrial chemicals, most of which are currently made from fossil fuels. The problem is that CO2 is extremely stable, and reducing it to a reactive and useful form isn’t easy.

“Copper has been studied for a long time as an electrocatalyst for CO2 reduction, and it’s the only metal shown to be able to reduce CO2 to useful hydrocarbons,” said Tayhas Palmore, professor of engineering and senior author of the new research. “There was some indication that if you roughen the surface of planar copper, it would create more active sites for reactions with CO2.”

Copper foam, which has been developed only in the last few years, provided the surface roughness that Palmore and her colleagues were looking for. The foams are made by depositing copper on a surface in the presence of hydrogen and a strong electric current. Hydrogen bubbles cause the copper to be deposited in an arrangement of sponge-like pores and channels of varying sizes.

After depositing copper foams on an electrode, the researchers set up experiments to see what kinds of products would be produced in an electrochemical reaction with CO2 in water. The experiments were performed by Sujat Sen and Dan Liu, graduate students in chemistry working in Palmore’s lab at Brown’s School of Engineering.

The experiments showed that the copper foam converted CO2 into formic acid — a compound often used as a feedstock for microbes that produce biofuels — at a much greater efficiency than planar copper. The reaction also produced small amounts of propylene, a useful hydrocarbon that’s never been reported before in reactions involving copper.

“The product distribution was unique and very different from what had been reported with planar electrodes, which was a surprise,” Palmore said. “We’ve identified another parameter to consider in the electroreduction of CO2. It’s not just the kind of metal that’s responsible for the direction this chemistry goes, but also the architecture of the catalyst.”

Now that it’s clear that architecture matters, Palmore and her colleagues are working to see what happens when that architecture is tweaked. It’s likely, she says, that pores of different depths or diameters will produce different compounds from a CO2 feedstock. Ultimately, it might be possible to tune the copper foam toward a specific desired compound.
Palmore said she’s amazed by the fact that there’s still more to be learned about copper.

“People have studied electrocatalysis with copper for a couple decades now,” she said. “It’s remarkable that we can still make alterations to it that affect what’s produced.”

The work in the study is part of a larger effort by Brown’s Center for the Capture and Conversion of CO2. The Center, funded by the National Science Foundation, is exploring a variety of catalysts that can convert CO2 into usable forms of carbon.

“The goal is to find ways to produce some of the world's largest-volume chemicals from a sustainable carbon source that the Earth not only has in excess but urgently needs to reduce,” said Palmore, who leads the center. “This is a way for us as scientists to begin thinking of how we produce industrial chemicals in more sustainable ways and control costs at the same time. The cost of commodity chemicals is going nowhere but up as long as production is dependent on fossil fuels.”

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Mantra Announces Continued Expansion of Research Team - AUg 18, 2014
www.marketwired.com/press-release/mantra-announces-continued…

"VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Aug. 18, 2014) - Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) and its subsidiary, Mantra Energy Alternatives, have announced the addition of two new personnel to its team. Drs. Ashwin Usgaocar and Christina Gyenge have joined Mantra in its new facilities in Vancouver.

Dr. Ashwin Usgaocar (Ph.D.) is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor John Madden at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He has joined the Mantra team supported by a Mitacs grant designed to bridge the gap between academia and industry. Dr. Usgaocar's research experience is well suited to Mantra's work, and includes the fabrication and characterization of lithium-ion battery electrodes, the development of electrodeposited Schottky barrier hydrogen sensors, and the initiation of a project on innovative photogalvanic solar cell designs. He is also a talented software developer, and has worked for three years as a software engineer leading projects such as the development of a SIM application toolkit for Fortuna Technologies Ltd. At Mantra, Dr. Usgaocar will be working on advanced electrode fabrication.

Since receiving her Ph.D. from UBC in 2000, Dr. Christina Gyenge has worked extensively in chemical and biological engineering. This experience includes postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Bergen and Stanford University and a position as a research associate at Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials. In 2009 she returned to UBC as a teaching faculty, in which capacity she developed and delivered numerous courses such as Energy Engineering. Dr. Gyenge combines an interdisciplinary and innovative background with a broad overview and vision related to the practical applications of alternative energy technologies and novel chemical technologies in general.

"I am excited to join Mantra Energy Alternatives, a company that is developing unique and innovative solutions to some of the most challenging problems of the 21st century; namely, mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and sustainable energy conversion," said Dr. Gyenge. "I am happy to be part of a dynamic team that strives to create a paradigm shift in the manner with which we address future energy needs, through leading edge chemical and electrochemical technologies."

Dr. Gyenge will join Mantra in the role of VP of Technology, Marketing and Innovation. She will be focused on the positioning of Mantra's technologies in the market and the strategic expansion of the company's technology portfolio.

Said Patrick Dodd, Mantra's VP of Corporate Development, "The addition of Ashwin and Christina, two highly talented engineers, reflects on Mantra's success in attracting the crucial skill sets that will propel the company to the next stage."


About Mantra Venture Group

Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) is a clean technology incubator that takes innovative emerging technologies and moves them towards commercialization. The Company, through its subsidiary Mantra Energy Alternatives, is currently developing two groundbreaking electrochemical technologies designed to make reducing greenhouse gas emissions profitable, ERC (Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide) and MRFC (Mixed-Reactant Fuel Cell).

ERCis a form of "carbon capture and utilization" (CCU) that converts the polluting greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into useful, valuable products including formic acid and formate salts. By utilizing clean electricity, the process offers the potential for an industrial plant to reduce emissions while generating a salable product and a profit.

The MRFC is an unconventional fuel cell that uses a mixture of fuel and oxidant, thereby greatly reducing the complexity and cost of the fuel cell system. Ideal for portable applications, the MRFC is cheaper, lighter, and more compact than conventional fuel cell technologies.

Follow Mantra on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mantraenergy

For more information go to: http://www.mantraventuregroup.com "

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.548.573 von Popeye82 am 18.08.14 19:52:55

mantra in japan

http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/6951457-mantra-erf…

tantchen

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[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.587.213 von tantegrete13 am 22.08.14 16:32:51

Tante Grete,

Was ist denn der Grund was Dich an Mantra Venture Group interessiert, ein paar Anteile halten lässt, oder dergleichen?
Die "ERC" Sparte, oder mehr das Ameisending?

Bei mir ist das, gaaaaanz klar, ersteres, vom Letzteren habe ich keine Ahnung, sehe das eher in der ARt "kann man mal schauen".
Bis dato für mich nur relevant als "potenziell synergistische Möglichkeit", zu ERC.

Gruß
P.

[Popeye82]

(2.)Antwort auf mein Schreiben. Das ist meiner Meinung nach wirklich wichtig für Mantra, umso mehr als dass das -die "potenziellen Endprodukte"- meiner Einschätzung nach bisher einer der Knackpunkte für ERC/Mantra waren, beziehungsweise (wahrscheinlich)immernoch sind.
Meiner Meinung nach eine ausgezeichnete Nachricht, aber noch ist nichts -Konkretes- gewonnen.

" Quote:Unlike the MVTG ERC process, fcel has not figured out what to do with the captured CO2.


It is right, but -so faaar- ERC is limited, in terms of end products.
As suicinid acid market is relatively small.
They work on it, and I think it's one of the keys to MVTG and ERC going forward.

Any kind of disegreement?

Regards
P.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_i… "



"Not any longer, MVTG now lists syn gas, a 30 billion dollar market, and formaldehyde, a 100 billion dollar market as MVTG ERC products on the newest pdf they recently posted on line on the web site. No doubt the new patents announced as applied for recently cover the latest improvements to the base patent which is issued in 3 countries and pending in many others.

Also, by using waste CO2 as the feed stock instead of Shale natural gas, the market for syn gas with the MVTG ERC reactor could grow rapidly. Also, formic acid and formates from CO2 could be used as a feed stock for a new generation of plastics and other chemicals. [/b]
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_i… "

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.653.677 von Popeye82 am 30.08.14 22:52:55

Presentation - Jun14
http://mantraenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/Mantra-Investor-P…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.653.737 von Popeye82 am 30.08.14 23:18:21

weitere aufgeführte CO2 Firmen übrigens


Skyonic
Calera
Algenol Biofuels
Liquid Light
Dioxide Materials

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.653.677 von Popeye82 am 30.08.14 22:52:55

"Also note that the syngas (CO and H2) is used to make one of the largest and most important products in the world, FERTILIZER!!!!!

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_i… "

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[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.657.019 von Popeye82 am 31.08.14 17:34:48

noch ein, schon sehr altes, Video einführend zu Ihrem "ERC" Ansatz.



- The ERC (Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide) process offers an innovative alternative to carbon sequestration with many potential advantages.

The first advantage is that the ERC, instead of addressing carbon dioxide as the problem, harnesses its chemical properties as part of the solution.

Capitalizing on the abundance of carbon
dioxide being released from fossil fuel combustion the ERC converts CO2 to useful, financially profitable products.

The second advantage is that the process is driven by electric energy that can be taken from an electric power grid supplied by hydro, wind, solar, tidal or nuclear energy.

Lastly, there is potential for this technology to be applied in a closed-loop fuel cell cycle, whereby carbon dioxide is converted into a fuel that is then used in a fuel cell to generate energy.

Our company sees the potential of the ERC as a step towards mitigating climate change.

Mantra Venture Group
http://www.mantraenergy.com -

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Capturing the communications opportunity for carbon capture +storage - EC - Aug 21, 2014

- Alastair Turner -
www.energycentral.com/generationstorage/environmentalemissio…

"Much has been made of the potential for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe's evolving energy mix. However, its progress has stalled in recent years with concerns around cost, complexity and potential health and safety risks.

Recently, the Energy Institute held a lecture entitled, 'CSS: Developing a cost-effective scheme for the UK'. Delivered by Andrew Green, Programme Manager at the Energy Technology Institute (ETI), the lecture put forth an analysis of CCS's current position in the UK, as well as its possible role in the future.

Green highlighted some interesting results from the ETI's Energy System Modelling Environment (ESME): a pathway optimisation model focussing on long-term pathways to predict how the energy industry will look further out. It predicts that CCS has the potential to save the UK's power industry £30 billion by 2050.

Moreover, the CCS Association believes the technology could create 100,000 UK jobs by 2030 and cut CO2 emissions by a third by 2050 – due to CCS producing negative CO2 when combined with biomass.

2,000 of these jobs are expected to stem from a regional CCS hub in North East England, the creation of which moved one step closer on Monday with the announcement of up to €300 million funding for the country's flagship White Rose project located in Yorkshire. The funding, from the European Commission's NER300 clean energy programme, is a crucial part of the puzzle of how to get CCS up and running in the UK. Its success of course, is still contingent on the British Government implementing supportive market mechanisms and incentives.

However, the Yorkshire project is the exception. The broader CCS story is one of various PR disasters across Europe in recent years and has resulted in an untrusting public and caution from investors. Certainly, the CCS industry's failure to educate the public, potential stakeholders and win friends across the energy industry has created a hostile environment for future investment.

For example, the ROAD project in the Netherlands has been left scrambling for the final €130 to €150 million in investment that it requires. This might be a drop in the ocean when compared to most large energy infrastructure project budgets, but you can't help but wonder whether a more amiable environment might have greased the wheels a little and helped pull in those final Euros.

The International Energy Agency has estimated that 3,400 CCS plants will be needed globally by 2050 in order to meet critical carbon reduction targets. It's therefore vital that a more robust and effective communications strategy for CCS be rapidly deployed in order to encourage a more conducive environment for investment.

Certainly, it's clear that in order for CCS to realise its potential in the UK, it needs better support from a PR and communications perspective. Targeting potential investors, businesses, and the general public with campaigns that both promote its benefits and allay fears about the risks, would go a long way to liberating CCS from the current commercial hiatus. "

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Lafarge’s new process for CO2 mineralization, Lafarge has developed a novel atmospheric-pressure process for the capture of CO2 from flue gases,
using conventional industrial equipment +avoiding the energy-intensive CO2 purification +compression steps, typical of current CCS approaches

- Ellis Gartner, Lafarge Centre de Recherche, Saint Quentin Fallavier, Isere, France -
http://c182953.r53.cf1.rackcdn.com/CCJ40web.pdf

"Why should a cement maker be interested in CO2 capture?

Global Portland-based cement production
exceeds 3.5 Gt/year and its direct CO2 emis-
sions now probably constitute well over 5%
of total anthropogenic CO2.
1
Cement is used
as the binder in concrete for the construction
of buildings and the infrastructure. While
concrete is inherently a very low-energy,
low-carbon material, vast quantities are
needed - roughly 10 cubic kilometres per
year - especially in the developing world.
Cement is a fine powder made by
grinding “Portland Cement Clinker” (PCC)
with other mineral-based ingredients. PCC
is made in large rotary kilns by burning a
finely ground mixture of limestone with
clays and other minerals. It is comprised
principally of “alite” (tricalcium silicate,
Ca3SiO5). Limestone, which is globally
abundant and well distributed, is usually the
main source of the calcium. But limestone
contains “fossil” CO2 which is emitted dur-
ing the process (see equation (1) in Fig.1)
Energy use and CO2 emissions are ma-
jor issues for the cement industry, so it has
adopted multiple approaches to minimizing
them, most of which are industry-specific.
Energy consumption has been minimized by
optimized kiln design, and significant pro-
portions of waste fuels are already being
used. PCC is now being replaced to a signif-
icant extent by “supplementary cementitious
materials” (SCM), usually industrial by-
products such as slags or fly ashes. Alterna-
tive clinker chemistries have also been de-
veloped to permit even lower kiln CO2 emis-
sions.
1 However, all of the above approaches
have their practical limits. So, if the industry
aims ultimately to achieve near-zero CO2
emissions, some kind of CO2 capture tech-
Calcium silicates tend to carbonate rap-
idly even at very low CO2 partial pressures
(e.g. in ambient air), but magnesium silicates
carbonate far more slowly, so calcium sili-
cates would constitute the ideal raw materi-
als were it not for the fact that they are rela-
tively rare at the Earth’s surface, (presum-
ably, because they weather too quickly.)
The most readily accessible sources
turn out to be man-made wastes, e.g. slags
from metal extraction processes, etc., of
which there are significant stockpiles. They
thus have the advantage that their reclama-
tion provides additional local environmental
benefits. In comparison, natural magnesium
silicates, which weather far more slowly, are
very abundant but not very well-distributed
(fig. 4).

We thus began our study by looking in-
to carbonating common calcium-rich indus-
trial by-products. However, we were soon
able to show that developing a special car-
bonation process for such materials made lit- ..."

[Popeye82]

FORM NT 10-K(Notification that Annual Report will be submitted late) - Sep 2, 2014
www.otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilingPdf?FilingID=10183941

[Popeye82]

New way to remove greenhouse gases, from the atmosphere - ENN/EA/KU/iCeMS/UoC/NC, KYOTO/CAMBrIDGE - Sep 4, 2014
[e-mail]
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/ific-tca090314.php
www.enn.com/top_stories/article/47792

"Researchers in Japan have engineered a membrane with advanced features capable of removing harmful greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Their findings, published in the British journal Nature Communications, may one day contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions and cleaner skies.


Greenhouse gases, originating from industrial processes and the burning of fossil fuels, blanket the earth and are the culprits behind current global warming woes. The most abundant among them is carbon dioxide, which made up 84% of the United State's greenhouse gases in 2012, and can linger in Earth's atmosphere for up to thousands of years.

Countries all over the world are looking to reduce their carbon dioxide footprint. However, carbon dioxide is essentially a waste product with little immediate commercial value and large treatment costs. Therefore, new low-cost technologies are sorely needed to incentivize greenhouse gas capture by industry.

Easan Sivaniah — an associate professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) — led an international team of researchers from iCeMS and the University of Cambridge to create an advanced membrane capable of rapidly separating gases.

The membrane they worked on, referred to as PIM-1, is "typically embedded with a network of channels and cavities less than 2 nm in diameter that can trap gases of interest once they enter," said Qilei Song, who was involved in the study. "The only problem is that their intrinsic properties make them rather flimsy and their starting selectivity is weak."

To overcome PIM-1's weaknesses, Sivaniah's team heated PIM-1 at temperatures ranging from 120 to 450 °C in the presence of oxygen, a process referred to as thermal oxidation. "Oxygen, under high temperatures, chemically reacts with PIM-1 to reinforce the strength of channels while controlling the size of so-called gate openings leading into the cavities, which allows for higher selectivity," said Song.

The resulting, improved PIM-1 was found to be twice as selective for carbon dioxide while allowing air to pass through it 100 times faster compared with commercially available polymers. PIM-1 can also be used for other applications such as capturing carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, enriching the oxygen content in air for efficient combustion engines, hydrogen gas production, and processes to generate plastic.

"Basically, we developed a method for making a polymer that can truly contribute to a sustainable environment," said Sivaniah. "And because it is affordable and long-lasting, our polymer "could potentially" cut the cost of capturing carbon dioxide by as much as 1000 times ." "

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Energy Efficiency Studies "Identify the Best Opportunities, for Greenhouse Gas Reductions, in Alberta" - AI-EES/C/NSERC, EDMONTON - Jun 24, 2014
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
www.albertainnovates.ca/media/21645/kumar_2014_06_23_final_a…

[Popeye82]

"poster illustrating CCS"
http://c182953.r53.cf1.rackcdn.com/CarbonCaptureJournalPoste…

[Popeye82]

Rio includes CCS in climate change arsenal, Mining giant Rio Tinto has touted carbon capture +storage(CCS) as a viable solution to climate change, with Rio’s energy CEO Harry Kenyon-Slaney saying that further CCS milestones could be expected as the technology continues to prove itself. “Understand this. CCS is technically available. It’s been commercially deployed in gas processing +Enhanced Oil Recovery for over a decade. Applying it to power generation is primarily a commercial challenge, +they can be met through technology +cost reductions
www.miningweekly.com/article/rio-includes-ccs-in-climate-cha…

"PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Mining giant Rio Tinto has touted carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a viable solution to climate change, with Rio’s energy CEO, Harry Kenyon-Slaney, saying that further CCS milestones could be expected as the technology continues to prove itself.

“Understand this. CCS is technically available. It’s been commercially deployed in gas processing and enhanced oil recovery for over a decade. Applying it to power generation is primarily a commercial challenge. And they can be met through technology and cost reductions.”

Speaking at a meeting of the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, in Sydney, Kenyon-Slaney noted that despite detractors of the coal industry, the fossil fuel was likely to remain the most significant source of energy generation in the near future.

He pointed out that global thermal coal production was currently around seven-billion tonnes a year, with China alone producing and consuming half of this. Australia, in turn, exported some 200-million tonnes a year of thermal coal, less than 3% of the world’s demand.

“Put simply, that all-important requirement - for large-scale, reliable, affordable energy - means one thing only; a great deal of it will be generated from coal. That’s because coal is abundant - with estimated global reserves plentiful for more than another century.”

Kenyon-Slaney said that in 2012, coal supplied 80% of electricity in China and 70% in India, with coal use continuing to grow in both countries.

“Coal is relatively easy to produce, compared to rival fuels. Coal-powered generation capacity is relatively quick and easy to build and cheap to operate. Coal generators can supply the large scale, base-load power that modern economies depend upon, around the clock, every day of the year. They are indifferent to whether the wind blows or the sun shines.

“In most places on earth, with the possible exception of nuclear power in China, a coal generator can sell you electricity cheaper than any other kind that is reliable - now, tomorrow and for decades to come. There is no escaping these practicalities and economic imperatives.”

However, he noted that as incontrovertible as the need for coal-fired electricity was, it was also a truth that climate change was being caused largely by carbon dioxide emissions.

“To be in business is to be in a perpetual cycle of problem solving. If we’re sensible we prioritise our effort and expertise to tackle our biggest problems first. I want to suggest that the problem of emissions-driven climate change is among the world’s biggest and most pressing,” Kenyon-Slaney added.

He noted that a major part of the answer to climate change would be low emissions coal generation, which would require a concerted effort from both industry and government, as both should invest in the science and research necessary to develop the technology.

“We support the development of renewables like solar, but on the most optimistic projections they can economically provide only a small fraction of what’s required in the next several decades,” Kenyon-Slaney said.

“Whereas we know coal is going to continue to contribute many times what renewables do to the energy mix. A system that acknowledges both these facts will support the commercialisation of CCS, at least as much as it does renewables.”

Edited by: Mariaan Webb "

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Doppelschreiben.

CO2 levels rising @fastest rate in 20 years
www.stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2014/09/09/co2-levels…

"WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) --

New figures from the United Nations suggest carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere are rising faster than they have in the last 20 years. The news has apparently surprised scientists, and suggests the so-called global warming "slowdown" could be short-lived.

Less surprising is the news that concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere reached record levels in 2013. Average atmospheric CO2 levels in 2013 sat just below 400 parts per million -- a concentration roughly 40 percent higher than pre-industrial times. The new data is the annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin compiled by the World Meteorological Organization, the U.N.'s meteorological advisory body.

But most alarming is that CO2 levels are rising faster than they have since 1984 -- suggesting the Earth's climatic systems are overburdened.

"If the oceans and the biosphere cannot absorb as much carbon, the effect on the atmosphere could be much worse," Oksana Tarasova, a climate scientist with WMO's Global Atmospheric Watch program, told the Washington Post.

The report arrives just ahead of the U.N. General Assembly meetings scheduled for later this month in New York. Obama is expected to take the opportunity to meet with other world leaders and discuss strategies for lowering global greenhouse gas emissions.

"We know without any doubt that our climate is changing and our weather is becoming more extreme due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said in a news release.

"The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows that, far from falling, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere actually increased last year at the fastest rate for nearly 30 years," Jarraud added. "We must reverse this trend by cutting emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases across the board. We are running out of time."

United Press International
September 9, 2014 - 11:10 AM EDT "

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.738.991 von Popeye82 am 10.09.14 02:51:45

UK study finds CCS struggling, to be heaaaaard
www.carboncapturejournal.com/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=3505

"Awareness of carbon capture and storage technology remains “persistently low” amongst the British public whereas knowledge of fracking is high and growing, according to a recent survey conducted by Cambridge University on behalf of the UK CCS Research Centre.

These low levels of awareness about CCS could potentially undermine the UK’s efforts to utilise the technology as a means of tackling carbon emissions from power plants and other facilities that burn fossil fuels, says one of the academics involved in the research.


The representative survey of over 2,000 people, conducted by the polling firm YouGov in late June, suggests that over 40% of the British public have never heard of CCS, with only 20% claiming to have read something about it in the past year. In stark contrast, awareness of fracking continues to grow dramatically, with those claiming to have never heard about it declining from 22% to just 5% within the past year, and views on the subject are becoming increasingly polarised.

Dr David Reiner of the Energy Policy Research Group at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, who led the study, said: “As we seek to meet challenging longer-term carbon targets and build a low-carbon energy system, the public will be demanding value for money given the large sums involved. The UK Government has ring-fenced £1 billion of public funds for capital construction of CCS demonstration projects and will be committing many millions more within the next year to support operating costs. Yet, despite CCS featuring regularly in the media, awareness of its role or progress remains very low amongst the public and, unsurprisingly, support for CCS remains tepid and has actually declined over the past year.”

Dr Reiner will be speaking about the results of the survey as part of the event, The Carbon Conundrum, at the British Science Festival on Sunday 7 September.

As awareness of fracking grows by leaps and bounds, the survey found that opposition has increased relative to last year (from 26% to 34%), but so too has support increased (from 24% to 31%) as more people take sides in the shale gas debate. By contrast, support for using CCS with coal-fired electricity generation dropped from 41% in 2013 to 28% this year. Less than 2% of the British public could name any aspect of the CCS demo projects.

This is the first public survey in the UK that compares attitudes on fracking and CCS. It is also the first to assess evolving attitudes to CCS in general, and to the two UK demonstration projects in particular. Results from the survey are currently being analysed and will be published as an EPRG working paper within the next 2 months. "

[Popeye82]

wenn ich mich nicht täusche könnte das für die 'Carbon Capture and Utilisation' Branche "fettes Ding" werden.
Wi(/ü)rd(e) aber sicher, noch, dauern.
Hab es mal Larry Kristof geschickt.

Carbon dioxide +copper prove useful - BDH, S&R Roundup - Sep 3, 2014
www.browndailyherald.com/2014/09/03/science-research-roundup…

"Rather than billowing into the sky as air pollution, excess carbon dioxide may provide an ingredient for manufacturing industrial chemicals, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University’s Center for the Capture and Conversion of Carbon Dioxide.


The new chemical recipe relies on the interaction of copper foam and carbon dioxide. Though scientists have long known that copper is able to reduce carbon dioxide into useful molecules, research has found that the reaction occurs at a relatively slow rate when using flat copper surfaces.

University researchers propose that copper foam may be the myyyyystery ingredient necessary to speed up this conversion. Its rough surface provides more sites for the copper and carbon dioxide to interact, and thus seems to yield products at a higher rate, according to a University press release.

The main product is formic acid, which has a wide range of uses. The food industry often relies on formic acid to preserve livestock feed, and the leather industry uses it as a stain to darken leather.

“The goal is to find ways to produce some of the world’s largest-volume chemicals from a sustainable carbon source that the Earth not only has in excess but urgently needs to reduce,” said Tayhas Palmore, professor of engineering and director of the center, in the press release. This recent study on copper foam, published in the journal ACS Catalysis last month, is in line with the center’s overall mission, he said. "

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New EPA Carbon Standards Compliance Strategies (Part 1): Which Technologies Have Reduced U.S. Power Carbon Emissions Since 2005?
http://theenergycollective.com/jemillerep/479016/new-epa-car…

[Popeye82]

"Rushlight Awards 2014-15 -open for entries"
www.rushlightevents.com/rushlight-awards/
www.carboncapturejournal.com/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=3506

" Now in their 8th year, the Rushlight Awards are the only set of awards designed specifically to support and promote all the latest clean technologies, innovations and initiatives for businesses and other organisations throughout UK and Ireland.

There are 25 separate categories covering renewable energy, clean fuels and transport, energy efficiency, power generation, green products and services, sustainable agriculture, forestry and biodiversity, water, waste, sustainable manufacturing and services and environmental measurement and management.

There is a category for any technology or innovation that reduces the environmental footprint of energy, transport, industry and everyday life. Ttwo new categories have been introduced this year:

i) International category for non-UK and non-Irish companies which would otherwise be eligible in any of the categories listed

ii) Sustainability Initiative category for an innovation, project or initiative that develops the market, engages society or furthers sustainability in the community or organisation.

This year’s Awards Party will be held in London at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 29 January 2015. All entries will be made into posters and exhibited at the Rushlight Show.

Judging is performed by an independent panel of expert judges taken from academia, government, trade associations and includes representatives from the Technology Strategy Board, Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, DECC, Carbon Trust, Energy Saving Trust, Environment Agency, Ofgem, DEFRA, WRAP, UKERC, BIS, British Geological Survey, PERA and DIUS. "

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China plans national carbon trading, from 2016; China intends to open a national carbon trading scheme in two years' time according to reports. The start date of '16 is quicker than expected, with officials suggesting it is a bigger priority for the government - ELN/ICIS/NRDC - Sep 8, 2014

- Vicky Ellis -
www.energylivenews.com/2014/09/08/china-plans-national-carbo…

"China intends to open a national carbon trading scheme in two years’ time according to reports.

The start date of 2016 is quicker than expected, with officials suggesting it is a bigger priority for the government.

Wang Shu, at the climate division of Chinese planning agency the National Development and Reform Commission told Bloomberg: “We’ve brought forward this plan because it’s been prioritised in the central government’s economic reforms.”

Commentators said the move would encourage companies to take carbon schemes more seriously.

Jian Wei Lim, Analyst for Chinese Carbon Markets at ICIS Tschach said: “Previously, many Chinese companies were unwilling to invest much resources or time in setting up a proper carbon management team due to the uncertainty of the continuity of carbon trading in China.”

It may not be an easy feat, he added: “A national carbon market in 2016 is a very ambitious target due to many possible problems such as the transition from the pilot schemes to the national scheme, involving the non-pilot regions, the need for supporting functions (e.g. verification companies), etc.” "

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schon alt.

CO2 To Fuel - Norris McDonald, 0 -5

- Norris McDonald, President, Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy
and John McCormick, President, Energy Policy Center conduct a session at the State of Environmental Justice in America 2010 Conference entitled, "The Defense Department, Environmental Justice and Climate Change," describing how to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into gasoline.

McDonald opened the session by describing how a program called Energy Defense Reservations (EDR) can utiltize funding from the Defense Department to help in building emission free nuclear plants that will reduce air pollution and mitigate global warming. He described that reducing smog in urban areas is a very important environmental justice issue. So is mitigating global warming, which produces even more intensive nonattainment days. A large scale project that reduces emissions mitigates environmental injustice and global warming.

The EDR would be a public/private partnership that simultaneously reduces carbon dioxide emissions from utility plants, while providing hydrogen for fuel cells and diesel fuel for military and civilian transportation purposes. EDR would combine the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), electricity utilities, coal producers and oil companies into consortia that produce electricity from coal and nuclear power, convert carbon dioxide into diesel fuel and gasoline, produce hydrogen, use the separated oxygen for coal-fired oxy-combustion and reprocess/recycle nuclear waste - all in a closed loop system. Ten reservations strategically located around the nation producing 100,000 megawatts of electricity without releasing any greenhouse gases.

McCormick proceeded with a technical powerpoint presentation that described the process in detail. These processes need very high temperatures of about 900 degrees Celsius. Carbon dioxide would be used from the coal plant to make a vehicle fuel while an adjacent nuclear plant would produce hydrogen for fuel cell production and oxygen for the coal plant firebox. The oxygen from the electrolysis would be used in the coal firebox to reduce the volume of emission gases by 80 percent, which represents nitrogen in the air. There will be little to no CO2 emitted from the coal plant because the gas will be used to make vehicle fuel. There will be CO2 released from vehicle use but these emissions would occur anyway from vehicle use. We are still studying the energy penalties and economics for these processes. ...-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkUdxjS2Lbg&list=PL673F865647687395

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"EPA Carbon Standard Compliance Strategies, Part 2: Industrial Proven Technology Solutions +Estimated Costs" - tEC - Sep 15, 2014

- John Miller -
http://theenergycollective.com/jemillerep/497356/new-epa-car…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.802.387 von Popeye82 am 17.09.14 12:55:43

Provincial, state +municipalities filling void left by national government inaction on climate change, The lack of national government approaches to climate change are giving subnational jurisdictions(provinces, states +municipalities) the opportunity to demonstrate they can do what their federal counterparts can’t: implement policies that fight climate change, but also grow their economies @the same time - CGT - Sep 24, 2014

- Perry Hoffmann -
rovincial-state-and-municipalities-filling-void-left-by-national-government-inaction-on-climate-change&catid=907:regulation-a-policy&Itemid=247" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">www.canadiangreentech.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3022rovincial-state-and-municipalities-filling-void-left-by-national-government-inaction-on-climate-change&catid=907:regulation-a-policy&Itemid=247

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.802.387 von Popeye82 am 17.09.14 12:55:43

Provincial, state +municipalities filling void left by national government inaction on climate change, The lack of national government approaches to climate change are giving subnational jurisdictions(provinces, states +municipalities) the opportunity to demonstrate they can do what their federal counterparts can’t: implement policies that fight climate change, but also grow their economies @the same time - CGT - Sep 24, 2014

- Perry Hoffmann -
rovincial-state-and-municipalities-filling-void-left-by-national-government-inaction-on-climate-change&catid=907:regulation-a-policy&Itemid=247" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">www.canadiangreentech.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3022rovincial-state-and-municipalities-filling-void-left-by-national-government-inaction-on-climate-change&catid=907:regulation-a-policy&Itemid=247

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.788.719 von Popeye82 am 16.09.14 05:46:04

'Goldman Small Cap Research' Issues Research Report on Mantra Venture Group LTD. - Sep 22, 2014
www.goldmanresearch.com/20140922849/Opportunity-Research/mvt…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.788.719 von Popeye82 am 16.09.14 05:46:04

Algae Biomass Organization launches petition to support approval of CO2 Recycling, for emissions reduction, In California, the Algae Biomass Organization announced a "We the People" petition to the White House aimed @securing US EPA approval of carbon capture +use technologies to meet the emissions reductions targets set by the agency. "We need EPA +those involved in the power generation industry, to recognize that algae +other technologies can convert waste carbon into a range of valuable products," said Matt Carr, Executive Director of the Algae Biomass Organization. "Algae need CO2 in order to grow, making waste CO2 from power plants a valuable input. We believe the EPA should recognize this value, +encourage the recycling of waste CO2 - ND/ABO/EPA, CALIFORNIA/SAN DIEGO - Sep 30, 2014

- J. Lane -
www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2014/09/30/algae-biomass-orga…

"In California, the Algae Biomass Organization announced a “We the People” petition to the White House aimed at securing US EPA approval of carbon capture and use technologies to meet the emissions reductions targets set by the agency.




“We need EPA and those involved in the power generation industry to recognize that algae and other technologies can convert waste carbon into a range of valuable products,” said Matt Carr, Executive Director of the Algae Biomass Organization. “Algae need CO2 in order to grow, making waste CO2 from power plants a valuable input. We believe the EPA should recognize this value and encourage the recycling of waste CO2.”

“We need to look no further than the aluminum industry for a parallel. More than 70 percent of the total aluminum ever produced has been recycled into valuable products and is in use today. The industry saves more than 90 percent of the energy costs required to produce products,” continued Carr. “More than 670,000 jobs are supported and the industry produces $152 billion in economic impact. We have a similar opportunity with recycling of carbon – and EPA acknowledgement of the potential for CCU is key for our industry to reach its full potential.”


The text of the petition reads as follows:

“The EPA should encourage states to meet CO2 reduction goals by allowing the recycling of CO2 via carbon capture & utilization (CCU) technology. This common sense approach reduces overall emissions, creates a revenue stream for utilities that offsets the cost of compliance, keeps rates low for taxpayers and stimulates economic development and job creation across the country.

“Technologies are now available to utilize CO2 captured from power plants and fed directly to organisms like bacteria and algae, which can be converted into valuable products, such as fuels and chemicals, animal feed and human nutrition. The Clean Power Plan should recognize CCU as a viable pathway for compliance with new rules.”


The ABO called on “those who support common sense, market-driven, job-creating and emissions-reducing technologies to sign the petition” which is located here.

“It’s important that people understand this petition is not algae-specific,” continued Carr. “We’re calling on anyone who can beneficially reuse waste carbon to join us in this petition and push the EPA to accept carbon capture and utilization as a viable emissions reduction strategy.”

The announcement was made at the 8th Annual Algae Biomass Summit, taking place in San Diego and featuring more than 600 of the world’s leading algae researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs, labs, startups and global Fortune 500 companies. "

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 47.937.121 von Popeye82 am 02.10.14 22:49:45

sollte sich jeder Mantra Interessierte gut durchlesen

Alberta 'could lead world in better carbon utilization, expert says', ConocoPhillips Canada exec Bob Mitchell said province has responsibility to lead carbon utilization development - CM, CCT, CALGARY - Sep 22, 2014
www.canadianmanufacturing.com/environment-and-safety/alberta…

"Alberta has the opportunity and responsibility to lead the world in hydrocarbon utilization, and not just in reducing the emissions intensity of energy production, developing carbon capture and long-term geologic storage projects, or fuel switching from hydrocarbons to renewables.

Instead, Bob Mitchell sees a world where hydrocarbons help elevate the livelihood and well-being of the globe as its population continues to increase.

“Quit running away from the climate change challenge as if it’s a threat. Look at it as an opportunity and we can do a lot,” Mitchell, senior director of innovating for performance and sustainability in ConocoPhillips Canada Resources Corp.’s oilsands business unit, told an Oilsands Review Speaker Series breakfast.

“I really think one of the problems we’ve had in society is not enough hope. We’ve spent too much time over the past 20 or 30 years being afraid of things, and the boogeyman around the corner is a great opportunity for us to get out there and create the future we want and if we do, it’s the future we deserve.”

Mitchell said Alberta needs a flue-gas capture and carbon dioxide commercialization centre—even a campus—where innovators and inventors can share ideas and concepts, kickstart innovation in important new areas and get more value out of the province’s hydrocarbons.

“We need to give people a place to prove, to de-risk technologies so we can apply them back in a commercial space,” he said. “If we do I really think the world will embrace this.”

Some “really cool things” can be made from carbon-based materials, said Mitchell, who two years ago was recognized for his leadership in Alberta’s oilsands sector with an Emerald Award, presented by the Alberta Emerald Foundation.

“The imagination runs wiiiiild and we have a real opportunity for Alberta to be in the lead in this world,” he said. “I think Alberta has the opportunity, and really, has the responsibility, to be a hydrocarbon utilizer-producer that the world needs.

“We have a great responsibility, a great opportunity and we just have to think differently about what we’re doing and make better use of the natural endowments we’ve got.”

Alberta could contribute the practice of diverting carbon into the food chain and, eventually, use excess carbon in 3D food printers, carbon-based materials for nano-filters and aerogels for electrodialysis to desalinate water, he suggested.

The province could also provide advanced carbon-based insulation and building materials, thereby creating new business opportunities and capitalizing on the chemical values of carbon and hydrogen, he said.

“Instead of emitting (carbon dioxide) and other things into the atmosphere, whether you believe in climate change or not, that is a wasted product. We need to do industrial synergies. We need to find ways to use those products instead of just releasing them,” said Mitchell, co-founder of the Oil Sands Leadership Initiative, which has been rolled into the Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance and the Sustainable Communities Initiative.

“To do that we need to embrace open innovation, captivate innovators, facilitate collaboration and help ideas become reality by bridging the technology valley of death.”

It is up to the private sector to develop a carbon innovation campus; government is not going to take the lead on this, he said.

While current uses of hydrocarbons include transportation fuels, home heating and electricity generation, higher-value uses in the future may be 3D printing, graphene, ammonia and biofuel bicycles.

Graphene is a one-atom-thick miracle substance that’s stronger than steel and appears to be a super-conductor, Mitchell said.

“It seems to be a promising, promising product,” he continued.

He said “really smart people” are focused on energy efficiency and conservation, fuel-switching hydrocarbons to renewables, reducing the energy and emissions intensity of energy production, fuel switching from hydrocarbons to nuclear and fission, capture and long-term geologic storage, and capture and enhanced resource recovery—all of which have become mainstream.

But until recently what hasn’t been pursued are air capture and conversion, flue-gas capture and carbon dioxide conversion, and higher-value uses of hydrocarbons such as materials and clean fuels—realizing that there is more chemical value in hydrocarbons than there is thermal value, he noted.

“We can divert carbon dioxide … into the food chain by putting it into fertilizers (and) composting, but if you get futuristic, we could be printing using carbon molecules to actually make food like a 3D print,” he said.

Recently a 3D-printed hamburger was created, although Mitchell said tasters pronounced it “not the best hamburger in the world .”

Aerogels are the world’s lightest solid materials, composed of as much as 99.98 per cent air by volume.

Transparent, super-insulating silica aerogels exhibit the lowest thermal conductivity of any known solid.

Ultrahigh surface-area carbon aerogels power today’s fast-charging supercapacitors, and ultra-strong, bendable x-aerogels are the lowest-density structural materials ever developed.

A Calgary-based company is using electrodialysis with aerogel filters to desalinate water, said Mitchell.

Normally desalination takes a lot of energy but it is generating electricity, he said.

“It’s a really promising technology,” he said. “It was developed in the oilsands but it could be applicable around the world.”

Now, with advanced plastics and materials, lighter, stronger buildings might be able to deal with catastrophes such as earthquakes and hurricanes because carbon-based materials have the ability to sway better than steel and concrete do, he told the gathering.

At a time when cleaner, reliable power is needed, Mitchell imagines tacking on value-adding components to tailpipes and power plant smokestacks so that carbon emissions aren’t wasted but instead turned into useful products.

Hydrogen can be removed from hydrocarbons to make more hydrogen-rich fuels and other products so that the emissions are not contaminating the atmosphere and affecting peoples’ health, he said.

“The big one here to me is, if we do a better job of this and make better use of our hydrocarbons we reduce the need for conflict and tension over hydrocarbons because now everybody in the world can follow our example and find more livelihood out of what they’ve got,” he said.

The world can switch from having its carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere and land and acidifiying the oceans to one where it goes into products such as the BMW I3, which Mitchell said he has driven and is a “pretty neat,” mostly carbon-based electric vehicle, or an enclosed motorcycle that is currently in production.

“It’s got a gyroscope so it doesn’t tip over,” he said of the motorcycle.

Mitchell invited his audience to consider how they might contribute to this “new world,” adding they do not have to switch careers or do different things at work.

A self-professed collaborator by nature and experience, Mitchell belongs to a volunteer organization that meets after work and on weekends to advance technology and innovation because its members are passionate about these subjects.

“There is an opportunity for you to get into the open innovation world, play around, deal with people all around the world, throw your hunches out there,” he said. “Let’s embrace the opportunities.” "

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'Fueling America's future with clean coal', Sound science estimates that the economic costs of doing nothing could substantially exceed the costs of aggressive carbon reduction policies, +that the longer we wait to address the issue, the more it will cost - TH - Oct 6, 2014

- By former Rep. Zack Space (D-Ohio) -
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/21…

"When it comes to energy policy we, as a nation, find ourselves on the horns of a dilemma. On one hand, the demands of our modern, globally competitive economy require that we burn cheap and abundant coal as a primary means of power generation. Indeed, global coal consumption is projected to increase 56 percent by 2035.


Yet, on the other hand, we are nearing a collective realization that the coal we burn is a primary contributor to the frightening specter of climate change. Sound science estimates that the economic costs of doing nothing could substantially exceed the costs of aggressive carbon reduction policies, and that the longer we wait to address the issue, the more it will cost. These two prominent features of our time—global competition and climate change—are on a collision course that seems destined to end in disaster.

Conceptually, carbon capture and sequestration has for years been seen as the answer to this dilemma. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has suggested that CCS at power plants could prove essential to restrain global warming. But the high cost of capturing, and then sequestering carbon, has made this solution unfeasible. Now, thanks to increasing advances in the science of CCS, coupled with the rapid rise of vast new potential for CO2 in America’s oil fields, a solution is emerging—one that renders carbon capture models economically viable, and that holds the added promise of reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil. As David Crane, president and CEO of NRG, said, “the best way for us to avoid the harmful consequences of emitting carbon into the atmosphere is to turn it into a productive asset here on Earth."

Carbon has already proved to be an effective and highly economical means by which to enhance oil recovery from gas and oil wells. The dream of creating efficient, fully integrated carbon capture and utilization models is becoming a reality. In September, NRG Energy and a Japanese partner broke ground on an estimated $1 billion project in Texas. Roughly 90 percent of the carbon captured from the existing coal-fired power plant will be shipped 80 miles by pipeline to oil companies and used to produce petroleum.

A 2012 National Coal Council study estimated that advanced coal technology, coupled with the use of carbon for enhanced oil recovery, could lead to $200 billion annually in coal sales, $60 billion in federal, state and local taxes and the creation of 1 million jobs. And now, research is underway suggesting that carbon may also be well suited to promote methane recovery from un-mineable coal seams, and as a substitute for water in the fracking process. CO2 is fast becoming a valuable, highly sought commodity that will mitigate the costs associated with its capture. It brings economic viability to the construction or retrofit of coal burning power generators that can capture and sell carbon to enhance the production of domestic energy.

Positioning CCS power generation in close proximity to large oil and gas plays will minimize carbon transportation expenses, making regions like coal-rich eastern Ohio, home of the massive Utica play, especially attractive. Carbon capture power generation in the Ohio River Valley will strengthen a depressed coal-based economy throughout the Appalachian basin, and create countless jobs associated with construction, power generation, distribution systems, and in oil and gas production.

All this can be accomplished while creating positive impacts on the environment, ensuring the integrity of the grid, and making our nation more secure by advancing energy independence. As an added benefit, the build out of this industry will inevitably serve to push the technology associated with carbon capture and utilization.

A paradigm shift will be necessary before the full potential of clean coal can be realized. That will require recognition from conservatives that climate change is real; and acknowledgment by liberals that we cannot magically erase coal from our nation’s energy policy. The prospects for such a transformation are good. Clean coal today is abundant, affordable and feasible, all critical requirements for electricity generation that barely met American’s power needs during last winter’s polar vortex. With appropriate near term investments in research, development and construction of advanced technologies, coal can revitalize the way we produce and consume energy in an environmentally-responsible manner.

Clean coal works. It’s a win-win for everyone determined to fortify the nation’s coal industry and benefit the environment. Nevertheless, the Obama Administration and Congress must work together for clean coal to fulfill its promise. Let’s face the facts. A clean-energy world is impossible without clean, low-carbon coal.


Space served in the House from 007 to 2011. He is a principal for Vorys Advisors LLC, a wholly owned affiliate of the law firm, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP in Ohio and a director of the CoalBlue Project, a nationwide coalition of Democratic leaders dedicated to a vibrant economy and a healthy environment. "

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 48.018.550 von Popeye82 am 13.10.14 12:26:37

MVTG Handelsplatz/Order

Hey..ich hab gestern versucht,eine Order bei der ING-Diba aufzugeben.Diese wurde zwar angenommen, aber nach einer halben Stunde gelöscht mit der Begründung,daß in dieser Gattung nur Verkäufe möglich sind.
Weiß einer, was das heißen soll?
Berlin war ja wohl bis letztes Jahr mal Handelsplatz.
Wo habt Ihr denn geordert?
Danke schon mal für die Antwort.

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New Gas Plant Venture 'Aims @Carbon Capture, From a 'Different Angle' ' - CT/3BLM/NG - Oct 17, 2014
http://cleantechies.com/2014/10/17/new-gas-plant-venture-aim…

"Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is often promoted as a way for coal power to be made “clean”: Projects such as the in-progress Kemper power plant in Mississippi and the recently announced Petra Nova project in Texas aim to trap the carbon dioxide from burning coal and then store it into underground storage or into previously depleted wells to extract more oil. (See related story: “Clean Coal Test: Power Plants Prepare to Capture Carbon.”)


CCS is being applied to natural gas-fired electricity as well (just today a new effort in Scotland was announced), and a new project in the U.S. aims to produce fossil power with zero emissions and greater efficiency than other facilities have been able to achieve. A group of companies, including Chicago-based energy producer Exelon and Durham, N.C.-based technology purveyor NET Power, this week announced plans for the project, a $140 million carbon-capture natural gas-fired plant in Texas.

The “first of its kind” demonstration plant is different because, instead of using steam as a component of electricity generation the way a typical plant would, it instead produces a pure stream of carbon dioxide from natural gas combustion and uses that to produce additional electricity more efficiently. The carbon dioxide that emerges from that high-pressure, oxygen-only combustion process needs no further processing to be injected underground, according to John Thompson, director of the Fossil Transition Project for Clean Air Task Force, which monitors and promotes new clean energy technology.

The energy saved by not having to process the carbon dioxide further would address one of the pitfalls of CCS: the process of capturing and storing the carbon is typically so energy-intensive that taking a bite out of how much energy a plant can produce per unit of fuel. But Thompson said that the NET Power project, which is targeted for completion in 2017, would convert natural gas with the same or higher efficiency compared to a traditional gas plant, even when you factor in the carbon capture.

The NET Power project is “really focused on coming up with a much cheaper way of capturing carbon dioxide from natural gas emissions,” Thompson said. The plant will have a modest 50-megawatt capacity and lower capital costs than a conventional plant; the project release said the cost of power from its CCS gas plant will be “highly competitive” with that of conventional plants. The project’s backers are also looking at ways to transfer the technology to coal plants, but it can only be applied at plants that gasify coal rather than burning it conventionally, Thompson said.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has encouraged a transition to natural gas from coal as way for states to meet emissions reduction targets associated with its proposed Clean Power Plan. Gas emits about half as much as coal when burned, but the emphasis on natural gas for reducing emissions has been questioned by some who point out that it might hinder the scaling up of renewable energy, and that natural gas production sites are likely emitting much more methane than the government initially estimated. (See related stories: “Switch to Natural Gas Won’t Reduce Carbon Emissions Much, Study Finds” and “Methane Emissions Far Worse Than U.S. Estimates, But Study Concludes Natural Gas Still Better Than Coal.”)

Thompson said that CCS is needed for gas so that it can support renewable energy, serving as backup power without undercutting greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts. “Intermittent energy sources like wind and solar power work best when they have a low carbon backbone to work with,” Thompson said. With the transition from coal to natural gas currently under way, that backbone is getting clean in the United States, he said, but “has to get a lot cleaner.” (Vote and comment: Can Natural Gas Be a Bridge to Clean Energy?)


Article by Christina Nunez of National Geographic, appearing courtesy 3BL Media. "

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eine weitere "Carbon Capture and Utilisation" Firma, nicht börsennotiert

Solidia Technologies Named in the 2014 Global Cleantech 100 - R - Oct 7, 2014

- Solidia Technologies Named in the 2014 Global Cleantech 100

- CO2-reducing cement +concrete technology is recognized as among the most innovative +promising ideas in clean technology ...
http://events.cleantech.com/gct-100/
www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/07/dc-solidia-cleantech-idUS…

"Solidia Technologies®, a startup with a disruptive technology that reduces carbon emissions up to 70 percent in cement and concrete and offers a profitable pathway to sustainability, today announced it was named in the prestigious 2014 Global Cleantech 100 hosted by the Cleantech Group.


Representing 17 countries this year, the Global Cleantech 100 is a comprehensive list of private companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges. These companies have the highest potential to make the most significant market impact and represent the most innovative and promising ideas in cleantech.

“We are very grateful for this recognition and to be among an esteemed cohort of disruptive innovators who are helping make sustainable solutions work for industry," commented Thomas Schuler, CEO of Solidia Technologies.

Speaking at the Global Cleantech 100 Summit & Gala in Washington, D.C., Schuler added, "We look forward to commercializing our technology and delivering significant CO2 reductions to the building materials industry in a way that is profitable and sustainable. This international recognition will help us to achieve our goal."

The 2014 Global Cleantech 100 list is collated by combining proprietary Cleantech Group research data with weighted qualitative judgments of hundreds of nominations, and specific inputs from a global 84-person expert panel. To qualify, companies must be independent, for-profit, cleantech companies that are not listed on any major stock exchange.

“The Global Cleantech 100 represents the most inspiring array of entrepreneurs across the cleantech space that are at the forefront of innovation,” said Sheeraz Haji, Cleantech Group’s CEO. “It is a true honor to gather with the global cleantech community every year to recognize and celebrate the achievements of each of the top 100 companies as they continue to solve tomorrow’s energy and resource challenges and redefine sustainable innovation.”

This year, a record number of nominations were received: 5,995 distinct companies from 60 countries. These companies were weighted and scored to create a short list of 327 companies. Short-listed nominees were reviewed by Cleantech Group’s Expert Panel, resulting in a finalized list of 100 companies.

The 84-member expert panel was drawn equally from leading financial investors and representatives of multi-national corporations and industrials active in technology and innovation scouting across Asia, Europe, and North America. The composition of the expert panel broadly represents the global cleantech community, from pioneers and leaders to veterans and new entrants. The diversity of panelists results in a list of companies that command an expansive base of respect and support from many important players within the global cleantech innovation ecosystem.

“The Global Cleantech 100 each year provides us with invaluable insight into which companies key market players think are most likely to have a significant impact in the next 5-10 years,” said Richard Youngman, Cleantech Group’s Managing Director, Europe & Asia and creator of the program. “How the composition of the Global Cleantech 100 list changes over time is revealing of key megatrends and hot sub-sectors, and helps us all get a view on the future.”


About Solidia Technologies®

Solidia Technologies® makes it easy and profitable to use CO2 to create superior and sustainable building materials. Their patented technologies start with sustainable Solidia Cement™ and cure concrete with CO2, reducing carbon emissions up to 70% and recycling 60-100% of the water used in production. Using the same raw materials and existing equipment as traditional concretes, Solidia Concrete™ products are higher performing, cost less to produce, and cure in less than 24 hours. Honors include the Cleantech 100, the R&D Top 100, the CCEMC Grand Challenge, the Katerva Award, and MIT’s Climate CoLab, and a 2014 Best Place to Work in NJ. Based in Piscataway, NJ, Solidia’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bright Capital, BASF, and BP. Follow Solidia at www.solidiatech.com and on LinkedIn and Twitter: @SolidiaCO2.


About Cleantech Group

Founded in 2002, Cleantech Group’s mission is to accelerate sustainable innovation. Core to this mission is i3, an online platform that connects corporates with innovation, at scale, by allowing them to find, vet, and connect with start-ups—efficiently building an innovation pipeline. In conjunction with i3, we offer premium Advisory Services for corporates in need of expertise designing and executing strategies for sustainable innovation, and managing the pipeline created in i3. Cleantech Group is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in London and New York. For more information, visit www.cleantech.com.


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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 48.083.896 von Popeye82 am 20.10.14 14:40:18

http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/7125352-mantra-inr…

tantchen

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Mantra Welcomes New Director, CTO +Legal Counsel - Dec 10, 2014
www.marketwired.com/press-release/mantra-welcomes-new-direct…

"VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Dec. 10, 2014) - Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) has announced that it is pleased to welcome Glenn Parker, an experienced investment consultant, to its Board of Directors. The company additionally announced the promotion of Dr. Sona Kazemi to the position of Chief Technology Officer and the engagement of Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP (SRFF) as it new legal counsel.


"We are excited to welcome Mr. Parker and SRFF to Mantra and Dr. Kazemi to her new position, as it is important that we continue to build out the talent surrounding the company," said Mantra CEO Larry Kristof. "The addition of a second independent director and a highly respected legal counsel will help facilitate our desired movement to a senior exchange."

Glenn Parker (CFP, CIMA) has been providing expertise in investment markets to both individuals and institutions for over 20 years. Having obtained his MBA and combined Civil Engineering and Business degree, his experience includes serving as a VP with both Prudential Securities and D.A. Davidson & Co., an Adjunct Instructor at Portland State University, and as the founder of Wychick Investment Advisors. Mr. Parker will bring his extensive knowledge of public and private markets to the development of Mantra's business lines.

"I am very excited at the opportunity to join Mantra's talented team, and to bring these world-class technologies to the next stage," said Mr. Parker.

Dr. Kazemi has been a Senior Electrochemical Engineer at Mantra since October of 2013. Her promotion to the position of CTO is a direct result of her significant technical contributions to Mantra's technologies and her demonstrated willingness and ability to lead and direct the research teams.

"We have been continually been impressed with Dr. Kazemi's work, leadership and vision, and as a result she is a natural fit for this important position in the company," said Mr. Kristof.

SRFF is the top ranked securities law firm as recognized by industry league tables. SRFF's services include, but are not limited to, providing oversight for stock exchange listing matters, initial and secondary public offerings, alternative public offerings, private investment in public equity (PIPE) transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

"We are very pleased to work with Mantra, a company clearly dedicated to growing shareholder value through its innovative technologies and leadership," said SRFF Partner Marc Ross.


About Mantra Venture Group

Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) is a clean technology incubator that takes innovative emerging technologies and moves them towards commercialization. The Company, through its subsidiary Mantra Energy Alternatives, is currently developing two groundbreaking electrochemical technologies designed to make reducing greenhouse gas emissions profitable, ERC (Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide) and MRFC (Mixed-Reactant Fuel Cell).

ERC is a form of "carbon capture and utilization" (CCU) that converts the polluting greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into useful, valuable products including formic acid and formate salts. By utilizing clean electricity, the process offers the potential for an industrial plant to reduce emissions while generating a salable product and a profit.

The MRFC is an unconventional fuel cell that uses a mixture of fuel and oxidant, thereby greatly reducing the complexity and cost of the fuel cell system. Ideal for portable applications, the MRFC is cheaper, lighter, and more compact than conventional fuel cell technologies.

Follow Mantra on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mantraenergy

For more information go to: http://www.mantraventuregroup.com


About Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP

SRFF provides experienced, professional representation in all matters involving the securities industry, as well as in all general corporate and litigation matters. The firm's clients range from start-ups to established, listed companies. They include private and public corporations, partnerships, broker-dealers, bank-affiliated broker-dealers, investment advisors, registered personnel, public and corporate customers and investors, partnerships and other entities. SRFF also advises institutional investors on transactions involving complex securities law considerations. To learn more, visit http://www.srff.com. "

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Mantra's CEO Issues Year-End Letter to Shareholders - Dec 30, 2014
www.marketwired.com/press-release/mantras-ceo-issues-year-en…

"VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Dec. 30, 2014) - Larry Kristof, Founder and CEO of Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG), has issued the following year-end letter to the shareholders:


Dear fellow shareholders,

As a result of the fast pace at which Mantra has grown this year, I am issuing this letter to provide a comprehensive update of the company's activities and initiatives. I am very pleased with how the business has been developing, as industry, governments, and investors across the globe are beginning to appreciate the value of Mantra's innovative technologies.

To begin with, our successful capital raise in March has allowed us to build out our core team with the skills necessary to develop both our technologies and our business. Our new research facilities in Vancouver and corporate office in Surrey now host a team of 16, including Ph.D. engineers and scientists, technical support staff, and management. As a result of the innovative and environmentally beneficial nature of Mantra's technologies, financial support has been awarded for many of these staff members from federal funding organizations, totaling $239,500 over two years.

Specifically, this year has seen the addition of Drs. AshwinUsgaocar, PiotrForysinski, Christina Gyenge and TirdadNickchi to the Mantra team. Each of these highly skilled scientists brings an invaluable contribution to the company's core competence, and the benefits have already been realized in the design of our products, processes, and business strategies. The Scientific Advisory Board has been bolstered by the membership of highly respected UNM scientists Professor PlamenAtanassov and Dr. Alexey Serov. Randy Gue, a 30-year Lafarge veteran, has joined the management team.

Most importantly, the growth of our team has allowed us to ensure that our state-of-the-arttechnology demonstration projects see a successful and effective deployment. We have continued to innovate on our process for the Electro-Reduction of CO2 (ERC), realizing significant process and reactor design improvements over the past year. These have been and continue to be integrated into Mantra's ERC pilot plant, the first of its kind in the world, and are the subject of recent patent filings. As a result of recent high profile opportunities regarding the deployment and operation of the innovative ERC plant, a comprehensive update on this project will be issued in January.

Having recently attended the 3rd International CO2 Forum on CO2 recycling in Lyon, France, I am confident that Mantra remains an industry leader and that this pilot demonstration will receive a great deal of international attention. The granting of Mantra's Canadian patent for the ERC technology in September has further bolstered this project.

We have also been successful with a series of significant design improvements for our novel Mixed-Reactant Fuel Cell (MRFC). These improvements have been facilitated in part by our use of 3D printing for cell components, a strategy that allows us to rapidly screen and refine new design concepts. We have, through our highly talented research team, additionally re-engineered a secondary 3D printer to serve as a CNC spraying machine to produce higher quality, reproducible fuel cell electrodes. This focus on innovation has resulted in a more powerful system; in fact, recent laboratory work has shown an unexpected linearity in the scale-up of bipolar units, a very positive result that will greatly benefit the system design moving forward. As a result of our efforts in using innovative technologies and strategies to develop our product, the MRFC demonstration will be pushed out to January; allowing us to demonstrate a significantly more robust and sophisticated product.

The issuance of the US patent for the MRFC technology has further strengthened our position in the industry, and this will serve as the basis of additional IP creation moving forward.

On top of the research and development work being done internally in support of these projects, we have established excellent relationships with several universities across North America, including UBC and INRS. Through government-sponsored projects, including a recently awarded NSERC Strategic Project Grant, we have access to some of the brightest minds in electrochemistry and catalysis, which have led to valuable technical contributions.

Due to the global significance of the problems that Mantra's technologies are designed to address, the company has become truly international. Subsidiaries have been established in Hong Kong, the UK, and most recently in the German state of Bavaria. These branches have been strategically located in regions that have a demonstrated commitment to addressing the problems of CO2 emissions and sustainable energy, and have expressed the desire to see the successful deployment of Mantra's technologies. Specifically, the Bavarian brewery Ayinger has agreed to host a second ERC demonstration, for the conversion of CO2 to new products developed by Mantra.

Mantra's interest in these areas is in part due to the large regional, national and international funding opportunities available specifically for our technologies. The company is dedicated to accessing public funding for its projects whenever possible, and thereby maximizing the value of these projects for its shareholders. Given the innovative nature of our business, the positive reception we have had across regions, and the interest from large industrial partners, we are confident that in the coming year we will successfully obtain a large grant for a pre-commercial technology deployment.

As always, intellectual property remains Mantra's most critical asset. We are extremely pleased to now have our core ERC patent awarded in four of the six jurisdictions applied, and the core MRFC patent in two of the three. In the interest of expanding this value, and as a result of successful laboratory-scale development, we have over the past year filed an additional five patent applications covering various aspects of our technologies. Our demonstration projects, being the first of their kind, will serve to produce a new generation of intellectual property that will further solidify Mantra's position as a global leader.

The company has been further validated through the receipt its firstrecurring revenue, totaling over $330,000 to date, and the establishment and maintenance of close relationships with large multinational companies. As per recent developments, the recurring revenue stream will continue to support our research and development activities as we move our products to the market, and our partners will provide the platform from which this market penetration can be successfully executed.

Looking forward, 2015 is the year in which Mantra will showcase a multitude of first-of-their-kind technology demonstrations. This includes two demonstrations of ERC for the production of a suite of valuable chemicals from CO2, and the demonstration MRFC for large-market applications such as backup and stationary power, industrial equipment, and transportation. Because we have based these demonstration projects on the highest quality research and engineering, we expect their success will lead to the company's first early license adoptions this year, catapulting Mantra to the next stage of growth.

I look forward to taking these groundbreaking steps with you, thank you for your support in 2014, and wish you the best in the coming year.

Best regards,

Larry Kristof

President and CEO

Manta Venture group Ltd.


About Mantra Venture Group

Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCQB:MVTG) is a clean technology incubator that takes innovative emerging technologies and moves them towards commercialization. The Company, through its subsidiary Mantra Energy Alternatives, is currently developing two groundbreaking electrochemical technologies designed to make reducing greenhouse gas emissions profitable, ERC (Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide) and MRFC (Mixed-Reactant Fuel Cell).

ERCis a form of "carbon capture and utilization" (CCU) that converts the polluting greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into useful, valuable products including formic acid and formate salts. By utilizing clean electricity, the process offers the potential for an industrial plant to reduce emissions while generating a salable product and a profit.

The MRFC is an unconventional fuel cell that uses a mixture of fuel and oxidant, thereby greatly reducing the complexity and cost of the fuel cell system. Ideal for portable applications, the MRFC is cheaper, lighter, and more compact than conventional fuel cell technologies.

Follow Mantra on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mantraenergy

For more information go to: http://www.mantraventuregroup.com "

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RB Milestone Group, 'Saving the planet can be financially rewarding' - Jan 8, 2015
http://mantraenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/RB-Milestone-Grou…

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Das sieht nicht gut aus:

"As at August 31, 2015, the Company has an accumulated loss of $11,850,639, a working capital deficit of $1,537,386 and no cash. These factors raise substantial doubt regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. (...) Management requires additional funds over the next twelve months to fully implement its business plan. Management is currently seeking additional financing through the sale of equity and from borrowings from private lenders to cover its operating expenditures. There can be no certainty that these sources will provide the additional funds required for the next twelve months."

Quelle:
[ul]http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1413891/0001062993150…[/url]

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Heute 55% plus - ohne News?

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Wenn sich hier kurzfristig kein Investor findet, war's das:

http://www.otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilingPdf?FilingID=109686…

Abschnitt 7, loans payable: eine einzige Katastrophe.

Fazit: Finger weg, egal wie bzgl. toller Aussichten getrommelt wird.

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Larry Kristof trommelt, obwohl der Laden de facto pleite ist:

http://mantraenergy.com/mantra-launches-exploratory-project-…

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Mantra Energy Alternatives, a subsidiary of Mantra Venture Group (OTCQB: MVTG), has announced experimental developments for its ERC and MRFC technologies, as well as a financing update.
(...)
Mantra has further announced that it had received bridge financing from Old Main Capital of Miami. In addition to this financing, Old Main has assumed a portion of the debt on the Mantra balance sheet, resulting in a total investment of roughly $500,000. The two groups are currently negotiating further notes moving forward.

http://galaxystocks.com/2016/02/01/mantra-announces-experime…

Dem Kurs hilft das gleichwohl nicht...

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Hier gehen dann wohl auch bald die Lichter aus:

http://seekingalpha.com/filing/3237765?app=1&uprof=70

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Der Q3-Report. Irgendwie schleppen sie sich weiter durch...

http://seekingalpha.com/filing/3373612?app=1&uprof=70

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Angeblich eine Akquisition aber nicht mal mehr eine eigene Webseite:

www.nasdaq.com/press-release/mantra-venture-group-acquires-a…

Aktie auf Monatssicht 290% im plus - wohlgemerkt von einem lächerlich geringen Niveau aus.

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Das sieht ziemlich dünn aus:

"As at February 28, 2017, the Company has an accumulated loss of $14,785,181, and a working capital deficit of $3,459,688. These factors raise substantial doubt regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern."

https://seekingalpha.com/filing/3580896?app=1&uprof=70

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Das Unternehmen heißt jetzt "Spectrum Global Solutions". Neue WKN: A2H9WR

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/12/13/1261681/0/…

Geld hat man offenbar auch wieder aufgetrieben:

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/12/15/1262745/0/…

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Zahlen per 31.03.2018
Cash 285 TUSD
Umsatz 4,3 Mio.
Net Losss 108.442 USD

Präsentation Mai 2018
https://spectrumglobalsolutions.com/assets/presentations/sgs…