[timc]

Originally Posted by Smooth_Trunkfish
Wouldn't the market value have to be at least $1 per share before listing on any of the exchanges?

No I believe what you are referencing is listing on the NASDAQ - not the OTCBB. Here is a description of pink vs. BB...

So where do pink sheet stocks fit in? This market (technically, it's a quotation service) is actually run by a company called Pink Sheets LLC, and is yet another computerized over-the-counter market, though with several key differences. Like OTCBB stocks, only a market maker can list and provide quotes for a Pink Sheet equity.

What are the Differences? There are essentially no size or registration requirements for a stock to trade on the Pink Sheets. And, a Pink Sheet listing does not preclude being listed on other exchanges. The biggest difference, though, is the lack of SEC filing requirements. Pink Sheet companies DO NOT have to provide disclosure of their financial results and material information (though they are strongly encouraged by Pink Sheets LLC to do so). On the other hand, they aren't forbidden to file these documents. Many company’s looking to move from the Pink Sheets to the OTCBB or AMEX or Nasdaq exchanges will begin reporting as a Pink Sheets company to get all their reporting infrastructure and audits done to begin the process of qualifying for the OTCBB or a larger stock exchange.

As a consequence, many Pink Sheets companies voluntarily submit quarterly and annual filings. The goal is to establish credibility with the marketplace, and perhaps make it easier to achieve a bulletin board or exchange-listing in the future. So, investors should not totally avoid pink sheet stocks simply due to a lack of exchange or SEC regulatory requirements. You may find many Pink Sheet equities with full disclosure, and in some cases, far better results than OTCBB or even exchange-listed companies. But as always, do your own homework and consider you stock trading prospects on a case-by-case basis.


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[ksusha_k]

I agree that the answer to my e-mail is a joke. But no company can declare straight away - "I'm a loser, you're a winner". My point is spreading an information about our technology.


Minister of Infrastructure of Israel signed with his counterpart in the Government of the United States in Washington a memorandum of cooperation in the development of alternative energy sources.
Recently, the United States Congress passed a law on the assignment to develop energy sources not dependent on the supply of raw materials from other countries. The law on cooperation with Israel, the United States allocated about 200 million dollars.
After signing the memorandum, both sides have begun to discuss the details of cooperation and upcoming projects to be funded under the new law.

[GREATWATERS]

" WORLD TO GO DARK , WHALE BLUBBER SCARCE "

SO READ THE HEADLINES OF THE BOSTON GLOBE IN 1857

THE SAME YEAR THE KEROSENE LAMP WAS INVENTED.


whole story at Hour of Power - Video

3/9/08 planting seeds of greatness

[TheSeer]

USSE had to go through a detail process to be able to present at this conference.

The 4th annual Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference is a forum which provides the opportunity for energy-related technology companies seeking capital to showcase their product orservice in front of an audience of investors, advisors, mentors, potential customers and fellow entrepreneurs.
Expected attendance: 400-500.

Presenting Companies: 30 companies will be selected to deliver a 1-minute elevator pitch, as well asa 9-minute full presentation. Each company will also display its technology at the expo held inconjunction with the event. Application Process: To be considered, companies must submit an executive summary, as detailed below, for review by the Screening Committee.

Application Deadline: Deadline for application has been extended. Executive Summary must besubmitted no later than: Friday, January 11, 2008, 10:00 AM CST. Deadline for Executive Summary Submissions: Friday, January 11, 2008, 10:00 AM CST 1
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Application Guidelines Eligibility:Entrepreneurs are eligible to submit an executive summary for their early-stage technology venture. Allventures should be based on proprietary, energy-related technology in any area of the industry and/or information technology companies serving the energy industry.
Areas companies can be involved in include but are not limited to: Oil & gas, coal, electrical power, and other energy sources Alternative energy sources (e.g., hydrogen, fuel cells, etc.) Exploration, production, refining, power generation, pipeline, transportation, and marketing Environment and remediation Energy efficiency and conservation Information technology applications for the energy industry Plant operations

Executive Summary:
Executive Summary content:
Brief history of the company Product or service description explaining its unique positioning and differentiation (you may include a description of intellectual property, patents, etc.) Market size and marketing strategy (including a competitive analysis) Management team description Financial summary Contact information: company name, contact person, physical address, telephone, fax and email address The executive summary should be 2-5 pages long including any tables, graphs, photos and financialdata. Section 1. The Company• Describe your business purpose. • Describe the company’s overall strategy and objectives. • Give a brief summary of your company’s history and current status, including its corporatestructure (C-corp., LLC, LP, etc.)
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Deadline for Executive Summary Submissions: Friday, January 11, 2008, 10:00 AM CST 3
Section 2. The Product or Service • Describe the product/service value proposition, what is the problem that your product or service solves? Explain why customers would pay for your product or service. • Describe important features and benefits of your product/service. Compare your product tothose of your competition in terms of price, quality, market position, etc. • Describe your company’s intellectual property status - trademarks, patents, trade secrets, special production skills, proprietary process, etc. • Discuss any relevant environmental or regulatory issues. Section 3. The Market and Marketing Strategy• Describe the overall market in which you intend to compete. Include total size, projected growth and key trends. • Describe your market strategy. What share of the market do you intend to capture and by whatmeans? What are your channels and costs of distribution? • Describe the unique capabilities of your product/service. What makes your product/service or your company different? What gives you a special, sustainable, competitive advantage? • Provide a competitive evaluation. Who are your largest competitors? How much of the market do they control? What are their weaknesses and strengths? Do not state that you have no competition. Section 4. Management •Provide brief backgrounds of the company’s key management team. Emphasize management expertise, past successes and how they add value to the company. •Describe briefly the history of working together as a team. •Identify immediate and future personnel needs and requirements. •List members of Board of Directors and Advisory Board (if relevant).Section 5. Financial Summary•Provide revenue, income and expenses projections for the next 3-5 year period. Justify yourfinancial assumptions. Provide any available past financial data. •State funding requirement. How much capital is the company currently seeking and how will theproceeds be used? •Describe the origin of any significant capital raised to date. •Discuss potential exit strategy for your investors. Fees: There are no fees for applying. However, companies selected to present will pay $400 to cover the costs of: •Presentations•Exhibiting •Grand Opening Breakfast on Thursday •Luncheon on Thursday •Networking breaks on Thursday •Cocktail reception on Thursday •Breakfast program on Friday •Luncheon on Friday •Networking breaks on Friday Each company registration includes admission for two company representatives to the event. If your company is not selected to present, visit Houston Technology Center - Assisting Houston Emerging Technology Entrepreneurs for individual registration to the event.
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SELECTION PROCESS A Screening Committee will review all executive summaries submitted by the deadline and evaluate thebusiness plans from the perspective of an early-stage angel/venture capital investor. The presentingcompanies will be selected based on the viability of their business model and the attractiveness of the business from an investor perspective. Presenting companies will be announced the week of January 21, 2008.
ATTENDANCE Expected attendance at the Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference is 400-500. Attendees will include investors, advisors, mentors, potential customers and entrepreneurs. The event is open to the public and anyone interested in promoting entrepreneurship in the communityis encouraged to attend. Seating is limited and only pre-registered attendees will be guaranteed a seat. This announcement and the Conference do not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer topurchase securities. This program serves merely to provide an overview of developing businesses related to energy technology. Should an individual develop an interest in a particular company, it is their responsibility to investigate the company, structure a proposal and negotiate the terms of any agreement directly with the company. HTC can not be involved in any such investigation, structuring or negotiationand does not make any representation regarding the reliability of information presented at the Conference. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: visit Houston Technology Center - Assisting Houston Emerging Technology Entrepreneurs, email HTC Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference at VCenergy@houstontech.org or call HTC at 713-658-1750.Presented By: Deadline for Executive Summary Submissions: Friday, January 11, 2008, 10:00 AM CST 4

http://www.startuphouston.com/wp-con...s_12-11-07.pdf

[TheSeer]

article of one of the companies...

GreenHunter Energy CEO Presents Today at the 2008 HTC Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference

Mar 6 02:30 AM US/Eastern

HOUSTON, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Gary C. Evans, founder and CEO of GreenHunter Energy, Inc., is the Opening Keynote Speaker at the Houston Technology Center's 4th Annual Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference located in Houston at 8:30 a.m. (CST).

Evans' presentation will reflect an overview of the challenges and opportunities in the present state of the Alternative Energy sector and includes a look at current levels of domestic and international renewable energy production including wind, biodiesel and biomass.

Evans speaks from the unique perspective of a successful former oil and gas operator who has "jumped the fence" to assemble a portfolio of alternative energy production businesses, including building the largest U.S. biodiesel refinery located in Houston, developing wind farms in the Midwest and Western states, and upgrading a biomass electrical generation plant located in Southern California that will be fueled by cow manure and wood waste.

Evans was founder and CEO of Magnum Hunter Resources, a highly successful NYSE listed oil and gas exploration and production company that Evans started with $1,000 in 1985 and sold for $2.2 billion in June 2005 to Cimarex Energy ("XEC").

The Houston Technology Center's 4th Annual Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference consists of two days of presentations and panels from more than 30 of the most promising emerging energy technology companies and an audience of venture capitalists, private equity, angel and corporate investors and related financial professionals.

[Machinammo]

Great talk, isn't it true, how we think it is the end and there is no hope in site, for instance the gloom and doom of oil scarcity.....then here comes a new resource that will totally revolutionize the need that was looked for....wow, this could be such a great thing, I can't imagine all the great ramifications of this technology, for instance. Healthy plastics, that don't harm the environment, the rotten smoke and pollution from fossil fuels, I have a diesel truck, and wow, you dont want to be in the same room with that thing running for very long, before you run for a new air supply. I always felt that the creator of this planet could take care of this planet no problem.....global warming etc, He will just take care of it in his own way, well what if his own way is using us humans who he created help clean up this planet ourselves, how fitting! Any way, I am happy to be on board with this thing, and believe me, its not just about the money, what a thing to be part of! Man longs to be part of something larger, John Eldridge, Wild At Heart, a must read!

[Machinammo]

Originally Posted by ksusha_k

I sent an e-mail to SYNTEC BIOFUEL INC. recently asking to evaluate our technology.
Here is what they wrote:

Dear ...,

I am not very familar with USSE but I have read through their website. The website doesn't provided too much detail about their technology but they appear to be using soybeans to produce biodiesel. The production level of 250 gallons of biofuel from a ton of soybeans sounds a bit high for the average process, but if they have perfected a method of extracting more potential energy from the soybean, that is great. I think all green fuel technologies will have their place.

Assuming that USSE is using the current technology to produce their biodiesel, this would mean that they would make oil from the soybeans and then use methanol (or ethanol) to produce esters for the transesterfication process. The yield would be tied to the amount of oil generated per pound of soybean and the usage of all fatty acids during the transesterification process.

They have made some references to the Rivera Process but have not stated what that process is other than to say that it will produce cellulosic ethanol at a greatly increased yield.

Our process is a thermochemical process. We can use any feedstock that is comprised of carbon. The feedstock is gasified and passed over our proprietary catalysts. Our catalysts convert the gas into a mixed alcohol product.

We feel that our process has an economical advantage because we are not limited to agricultural crops as feedstock. We will be able to purchase our feedstock at a greatly reduced price as it is considered waste by most companies. The price of our feedstock will not fluctuate with the commodities market (as it would if we used corn or soybean).

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Regards,

Nancy Ross
SYNTEC BIOFUEL INC.
Ethanol from Biomass using a thermochemical catalyst - the Syntec Biofuel process

Checked out their Web site, this is on it,

Methanol (methyl alcohol) is also known as wood alcohol or wood spirit. It’s a colorless liquid that burns with non-luminous flame and is a violent poison. Methanol is one of the basic building blocks of the chemical industry and one of the largest-volume commodity materials produced in the world today, with primary outlets being resins for building products and numerous types of polymers and plastics.

Methanol Fuel
Methanol is primarily used as base for the production of other important chemicals which in turn are utilized in the plastics, textile, paint and auto industries. Methanol is higher in octane than gasoline and often used as a fuel additive in reformulated gasoline (MTBE), rocket propellant and as a fuel blend for a variety of vehicular racing sports.

Methanol Production
Methanol is made primarily from natural gas sources via catalytic synthesis similar in methodology to the Syntec Process. Natural gas is reformed with steam to produce syngas which is catalytically reacted to make methanol.

While conversion costs for this technology are low, the price of methanol in the past few years has ranged from $0.70 - $1.80 a gallon. The key driver is the price of natural gas - a non-renewable and permanently declining resource.

Production capacities for methanol are estimated to be in the range of 30-40MM metric tons per year.

MTBE
In 1990, the United States passed the Clean Air Act, which required gasoline to contain 2.7% oxygen by weight. This was achieved by adding oxygenates such as ethanol and methanol to reformulated gasoline. Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) is a methanol derivative and was the most widely used oxygenate with an annual consumption of over 4 billion gallons in the US alone. Concerns over the health and safety risks of MTBE contaminating water supplies, however, led to legislative bans in several states including California and New York.

Wouldn't it be better to have plastics etc, be made with a substance that doesnt have....It’s a colorless liquid that burns with non-luminous flame and is a violent poison. in the same sentance. Come on JR, lets get some healthful Bio Plastics going!

[HokieWolf]

Also, volume is very healthy. What's driving investors to buy today? this afternoon's news? tommorrow's news? Anyone know anything?

Hokie

[Oil Can]

In Nebraska, a research team at the University of Nebraska released more details on a five-year, 10-farm study on switchgrass production. The research team determined that five farmers achieved average costs of $50 per ton for production, translating to a feedstock price of as little as 58 cents per gallon for switchgrass ethanol. The research team also found that greenhouse gas emissions were reduced by 94 percent in switchgrass production, compared to gasoline emissions. Two farmers in the study, with previous experience growing switchgrass, achieved costs of $39 per ton in the five-year study, or 25 percent below the average for the group, indicating a potential to produce fuel at as low as 44 cents per gallon.

In Illinois, researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign surveyed local farmers and report that the major challenge in developing cellulosic ethanol will be to persuade farmers to grow the crop. Farmers indicated in the survey that they would only grow cellulosic crops if they could be persuaded that the cellulosic crops such as switchgrass and miscanthus can compete with soybeans and corn in terms of profitability.

Switchgrass has received a green light recently as a biofuel feedstock on the nitrogen front. A report has been published comparing the impact of additional biofuel production on nitrogen levels in Chesapeake Bay. The report found that corn production increased nitrogen in the Bay by 16 pounds per acre under production, versus 8 additional pounds per acre of soybeans. The report found that switchgrass production would reduce nitrogen levels by 27 pounds per acre under production.

[Oil Can]

Texas seems to be in the center of developing a generation of biofuels. I still think closed system is better. Bjet had some good information on this.

PetroSun Set to Commence Operations on Its Initial Commerical Algae-to-Biofuels Farm
Monday March 10, 10:30 am ET


SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(MARKET WIRE)--Mar 10, 2008 -- PetroSun, Inc (Other OTC:PSUD.PK - News) announced today that its initial commercial algae-to-biofuels farm is scheduled to commence operations on April 1, 2008. The farm is located on the Texas Gulf Coast near Harlingen, Texas.
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PetroSun Biofuels, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of PetroSun, Inc., will operate the 1,100 acre salt water open pond system. There are currently 94 five-acre and 63 ten-acre ponds on the 1,831 acres contained within the algae farm operation. The company will extract the algal oil on-site and transport the raw product via barge, rail or truck to company owned or joint ventured biodiesel refineries. The residual algae biomass will be converted into ethanol or other products.

PetroSun will conduct algae-to-jet fuel and algae-to-bioplastics research and development projects supported by a supply of algal oil produced from this operation. For an aerial view of the farm, please click on the following link.

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