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Obama's Vietnam
"This is the last helicopter out of Saigon."
CNN's senior political analyst, Gloria Borger, related a very odd quote on yesterday's episode of "CNN Newsroom." Actually she related it twice, first in an interview with anchorman Ali Velshi and later with Wolf Blitzer, whom Velshi describes as "the master of the Best Political Team on Television." She was describing President Obama's efforts to ram through his monstrous health-care proposal over the objections of voters:
Velshi: All right, Gloria, how much of a hint is the president going to make? Or is it not going to be hinted? Is he going to say, "This is the compromise. If you can't find it in yourselves to do it, to support this for Republicans, we're going to get it through the Senate"?
Borger: Right. This isn't going to be subtle at all today. I think this is it. I was speaking with one senior White House adviser just before I came on the air, and he said, think of it this way. This is the last helicopter out of Saigon, OK?
Velshi: Wow.
Borger: So, this means that, take it or leave it, this is your last chance to get on health care. . . .
Blitzer: Gloria, this three-step process that has to go forward within the next few weeks. The House passes the Senate version, the House then makes some changes to the Senate version, and then the Senate passes those changes. It's by no means a done deal that the first step is going to get done.
Borger: No. It's not a done deal, but you know what the president's going to come out and say is, this is the way it has to happen. We've got to have an up-or-down vote.
I was talking with a senior White House adviser today, Wolf, who put it to me this way. He said, "This is the last helicopter out of Saigon," meaning they have made a political decision that they're going to use their Democrats to get this through, because what they need, this aide says, is they need an accomplishment. And they believe that once this passes, people will begin to see the benefits of it, and it will not ricochet against them, but will work for them.
Mark Mardell, North American editor of the BBC, was watching and he blogged in response: "Fleeing a lost war is not the most optimistic metaphor for an adviser to adopt. And it still may go down in flames."
But could Mardell have misunderstood the analogy? Maybe the point of comparison is that the fall of Saigon was a communist takeover.
What Did the Founders Say Today?
- "If the Republicans pushing against the filibuster love majority rule so much, they should propose getting rid of the Senate altogether. But doing so would mean acknowledging what's really going on here: regime change disguised as a narrow rules fight. We could choose to institute a British-style parliamentary system in which majorities get almost everything they want. But advocates of such a radical departure should be honest enough to propose amending the Constitution first."--E.J. Dionne, Washington Post, March 22, 2005
- "The Founders said nothing in the Constitution about the filibuster, let alone 'reconciliation.' Judging from what they put in the actual document, the Founders would be appalled at the idea that every major bill should need the votes of three-fifths of the Senate to pass."--E.J. Dionne, Washington Post, March 4, 2010
President Phil Connors
"President Barack Obama opened the final act of a year-long drama over health-care legislation Wednesday," The Wall Street Journal reports. It feels more like "Groundhog Day" than the final act.
The president vowed to rally Americans and wavering lawmakers alike. White House aides said a pair of trips next week will be followed by a stream of public and private lobbying. The White House wants final votes by month's end.
Right, because the one thing he hasn't tried is giving a speech in an effort to "rally Americans." At least the media are falling in line. "At its core, Obama's proposal would extend health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans while cracking down on insurance company practices such as denying coverage on the basis of a pre-existing medical condition," the Associated Press "reports," holding Obama accountable by parroting his promises.
A Washington Post headline reads, "As Democrats Seek to Push Through Health Bill, Obama Reaches Out to Republicans." But what the story actually describes is more onslaught than outreach:
As Democrats on Capitol Hill prepared a risky effort to muscle sweeping health-care legislation to final passage, President Obama on Tuesday made a last gambit to split Republicans on the issue, proposing to incorporate a handful of GOP ideas into his signature domestic initiative.
Since most people hate ObamaCare, it's easy for Republicans to oppose, and correspondingly difficult for Democrats to support. That's why Obama wants the Senate to sidestep its usual rules and pass a bill with just 50 votes.
The holdup may come in the House, which would have to pass two bills to make this work, including the especially blatant monstrosity the Senate approved on Christmas Eve. House rules require only a bare majority, but that's about all Speaker Nancy Pelosi was able to get in November, when the House approved its ObamaCare version.
The New York Times lectures: "House Democrats who say they cannot accept the Senate's abortion provisions must ask themselves a fundamental question: Are they willing to scuttle their party's signature domestic issue and a reform that this country desperately needs, rather than accept the almost-as-tough language of the Senate bill?"
Rep. Bart Stupak asks and answers yes! The antiabortion Michigan Democrat, who voted in favor of the House's version of ObamaCare, says he and 11 other Democrats will vote "no" this time around because the Senate bill would directly subsidize abortion, the Associated Press reports. That's promising, although we'd be happier if the 11 others were all saying the same thing publicly.
The Observer-Dispatch of Utica, N.Y., reports that the local congressman, Michael Arcuri, says he will switch his vote from aye to nay. Arcuri is a two-term Democrat who won a previously Republican open seat in the 2006 Democratic sweep and was re-elected with 52% of the vote in 2008. Obama carried his district, but by a margin of only 2%, so voting against ObamaCare would seem to be the politically prudent move.
When the House approved ObamaCare in November, the vote was 220-215. Four of the "yes" votes are gone: Rep. Joseph Cao, the lone Republican to assent, has said he will flip; Rep. Jack Murtha is dead; and Reps. Robert Wexler and Neil Abercrombie have left Congress. The three vacancies--none to be filled before this month--reduce the size of a House majority from 218 to 217, and as John Fund points out, it would drop to 216 if Georgia Republican Nathan Deal follows through on his resignation plans.
If Stupak and Arcuri vote "no," Obama and Pelosi would need to flip at least two of the 38 Democrats who voted against ObamaCare the first time around. (There were actually 39 Democratic noes, but one of them, Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama, is now a Republican.)
One of the "no" votes came from Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah. The Weekly Standard notes that President Obama has nominated Scott Matheson, the congressman's brother, to a seat on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: "Scott Matheson appears to have the credentials to be a judge, but was his nomination used to buy off his brother's vote?"
Then again, this could cut the other way. At this point, Rep. Matheson can't very well vote "yes" without looking corrupt.
A Sick Man
Rep. Eric Massa, a New York Democrat, announced yesterday that he won't seek re-election, citing health problems. Massa has suffered form non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Politico reports "that the House ethics committee has been informed of allegations that the New York Democrat, who is married with two children, made unwanted advances toward a junior male staffer," but Massa denies this is why he's retiring. National Journal's John Mercurio offers one of the most halfhearted defenses we've ever read, noting that "there's no evidence so far to suggest the male aide he [allegedly] harrassed [sic] was younger than 18."
Although Massa's district leans slightly Republican (John McCain got just over 50% of the vote there), he is one of two Democrats who voted against ObamaCare the first time around because the bill was insufficiently radical. We haven't heard of any indication that Massa, who favors the complete socialization of medical insurance, is thinking of switching. Let's hope that's because he isn't.
Ojo por Ojo?
Yesterday we criticized Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a rookie mistake in seeming to side with Argentina against Britain in the two countries' longstanding dispute over the Falkland Islands. But "Bagehot," an anonymous columnist for The Economist, suggests a different interpretation:
What goes around, comes around, you might say. And maybe the release of the Lockerbie bomber and the fuss over Binyam Mohamed were always going to have some sort of impact on British-American relations. But on the face of it, this seems to be going a bit far. Hilary Clinton was asked about the Falklands during a visit to Argentina yesterday, and said this . . .
Binyam Mohamed is an erstwhile Guantanamo detainee who was freed by a British court after claiming "torture." If Mrs. Clinton really was trying to prick the Brits for their anti-antiterror efforts, we withdraw our criticism.
The Wrong Way to End Domestic Violence
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has one of those grimly ironic crime stories:
A 45-year-old woman, charged with ending a domestic dispute by killing her 26-year-old husband of five days, is a registered lobbyist for a group fighting domestic violence.
Arelisha Bridges was ordered held without bond in the Fulton County Jail. . . . Officials said Bridges claimed she was unemployed. But records show she is a lobbyist for an organization called the National Declaration for Domestic Violence Order; its Web site says the group is pushing legislation to create a database of those convicted of sex crimes or domestic abuse.
Some suggest that the NDDVO is a bit dodgy:
Bridges' group isn't among the prominent domestic violence lobbying groups in Georgia, said Kirsten Rambo, the executive director of the Georgia Commission on Family Violence.
"This is the first I've heard about that organization," Rambo said. "I certainly couldn't say if they were legitimate or not," she said, adding, "It's certainly a new name to me."
Bridges has filed sparse lobbying expenses, according to State Ethics Commission records. So far this year, she's reported spending $20--for parking while lobbying for the abuse database.
Presumably the bullets were a personal expense. NDDVO's Web site looks highly amateurish--there's a banner at the top declaring, "This page is hosted free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com"--but it does appear someone has updated it since Bridges went to jail. The site declares (quoting verbatim): "Just as the phoenix rose from 'The Great Fire Of 1917.' Once again out of tragedy arises triumph from Atlanta, Georgia U.S.A."
Bad Company
"Three Los Angeles elementary school teachers accused of giving children portraits of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to carry in a Black History Month parade have been removed from their classrooms, a school district spokeswoman said Wednesday," the Associated Press reports:
Children from other classes at the school displayed photos of more appropriate black role models, such as Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman and President Barack Obama, Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman Gayle Pollard-Terry said.
The incident occurred Friday at Wadsworth Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles, where the student body is more than 90 percent Latino.
District Superintendent Ramon Cortines placed the teachers--all white men who teach first, second and fourth grades--on administrative leave on Tuesday while an investigation is conducted, Pollard-Terry said.
"The superintendent will not let anyone make a mockery out of Black History Month," she said.
We certainly understand the objection to Simpson and Rodman, but what's so awful about RuPaul? To be sure, we don't care for his isolationist views on foreign policy, but there's a lot we disagree with Obama about as well, and that shouldn't stop anyone from admiring him for his accomplishments.
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"Dinosaur's Oldest Relative Found"--headline, BBC Web site, March 4
The Lonely Life of Scientists
"Scientists Find Mathematical Formula for the Perfect Wife"--headline, Daily Telegraph (London), March 3
What Goes 'Clop, Clop, Clop, Clop, Fa-WUMP'?
"Kentucky Authorities Investigate Report of Hit-and-Run Amish Buggy"--headline, Daily Register (Harrisburg, Ill.), March 2
That Was Back When They Were Alive
"Dead Pigs Used to Investigate 'Dead Zones' "--headline, BBC Web site, March 4
Next on the Agenda, Bill No. A1--Oh, Look! A Squirrel!
- "New Jersey Assembly to Hear Distracted Driver Bill"--headline, Associated Press, March 4
- "Squirrel Causes Power Outage, Disrupts Traffic Along Veterans"--headline, Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.), March 4
She May Be Part of the Solution
"Naked Woman Tied to Tree in Tacoma Park Not a Problem"--headline, KIRO-TV Web site (Seattle), March 3
What's Next, Nonalcoholic Beer?
"AB InBev Sees Flat Beer Sales"--headline, Associated Press, March 4
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "Does Wyden-Gregg Go Far Enough?"--headline, National Review Online, March 3
- "Who Really Canceled the 'Brady Bunch' Reunion?"--headline, Yahoo! TV, March 3
- "Should It Be Illegal to Be a Jew in Massachusetts?"--headline, Maggie Gallagher syndicated column, March 3
Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "Eliot Spitzer: Why I Liked Ho's"--headline, New York Post, March 4
- "Why I Disagree With Hedges and Nader on Obama"--headline, OpEdNews.com, March 3
It's Always in the Last Place You Look
- " 'Extinct' Tiny Caddisfly Found at River in Assynt"--healdine, BBC Web site, March 4
- "Robust Growth Found in Minnows"--headline, TradingMarkets.com, March 3
- "Town Finds Good Neighbor in Nuclear Plant"--headline, New York Times, March 4
- "Mexican Director Finds Humor in Tragedy"--headline, Daily Wildcat (University of Arizona), March 3
Too Much Information
"John 'Randy' Kuhl Eyes Eric Massa's Seat"--headline, Politico.com, March 3
Someone Set Up Us the Bomb
"US Bank in Dubai Killing Ties Cards to Partner"--headline, Associated Press, March 3
Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control
- "Out as Ways and Means Chairman, Rep. Charlie Rangel Is Sad, Lost and Alone in His Own Thoughts"--headline, Daily News (New York), March 4
- "Subprime Mortgage Crisis Hits Whorehouses"--headline, Human Events, March 3
Breaking News From 2009
- "Obama Takes Charge, Demands Vote on Health Care"--headline, Associated Press, March 3
- "Barack Obama Looks to Fast-Track Health Reform Bill Into Law"--headline, Guardian (London), March 3
- "Leading Democrats Confident They Have the Votes on Healthcare"--headline, Hill, March 3
- "Abortion Reemerges in Health Care Battle"--headline, USA Today Web site, March 4
- "Pelosi: Lawmaker Healthcare Concerns Can Be Satisfied"--headline, Reuters, March 4
- "Pelosi Plans to Schedule Vote on Health Care"--headline, WJLA-TV Web site (Washington), March 4
- "Senators Split on Health Bill"--headline, Omaha World-Herald, March 4
News You Can Use
- "The Car You Drive May Define You"--headline, Detroit News, March 4
- "Charlie Gasparino Recommends Putting Your Guests Up at the Waldorf, Where They Don't Get Pissy About Stealing the Little Bottles of Shampoo and Conditioner"--headline, DealBreaker.com, March 3
Bottom Stories of the Day
- "Direct Marketers, Catalog Companies: We Can Adjust to Five-Day Postal Week"--headline, AdAge.com, March 3
- "Palin Pitching TV Show About Alaska"--headline, Daily Beast, March 3
- "University of California Campus Erupts in Riots"--headline, RT.com (Russia), March 4
The Myopiphobic Mr. Robinson
MediaBistro.com reports that Tunku Varadarajan's lists of the most influential 25 journalists on the right and the left didn't include any blacks. Richard Prince of the Maynard Institute "contacted four Pulitzer Prize winning black journalists to get their response":
"I'd call it myopic, to say the least," said Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, the 2009 Pulitzer winner for commentary. "But to the extent that this represents a real perception, one has to wonder whether the nation--which after all elected a black president--isn't far ahead of the media executives who make assignments that create influence."
In fact, myopia causes difficulty seeing detail at a distance, but the perception of color is unaffected, except that strong eyeglasses can cause prismatic separation of colors known as "color fringing." In any case, as a Myopian-American (and No. 9 on one of Varadarajan's lists), we are deeply offended by Robinson's remark, which is as insensitive as it is ignorant.
When we were a boy, the other kids used to call us "four eyes." Then we got glasses, and they started calling us "eight eyes." We thought such bigotry was a thing of the past, but we can see clearly that we were wrong.
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Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
July 30, 2009 5:00 pm ET
Stanley Farmer – VP and CFO
Larry Ryan – CEO
Florian Schattenmann – VP and Chief Technology Officer
David Firshein – Cascade Capital Corporation
Jim Van Allen – Philadelphia Investors
Kevin Brady – Raymond James
David Monson [ph]
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the SulphCo quarterly investor conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Stanley Farmer, Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Farmer, you may begin.
Stanley Farmer
Thank you, Martin. Good afternoon and thanks to everyone for joining us on the investor call today. With me on the call today is Dr. Larry Ryan, SulphCo's CEO and Dr. Florian Schattenmann, SulphCo's Chief Technology Officer.
Before we get to the body of today's call, I would like to offer the following disclaimer. Please note that some of the information you would hear today may consist of forward-looking statements regarding revenue, memorandum of understanding, test results, margins, operating expenses and future goals. Actual results or trends could differ materially from our forecast. For more information, please refer to the risk factors discussed in our Forms 10-K and 10-Q on file with the SEC.
SulphCo assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information as of their respective dates. As was the case with our last call the slide presentation that we're going to be reviewing during today's call has been posted on SulphCo's Web site and is also been filed in 8-K with the SEC. We encourage all investors to access one of these two sites to allow them to follow-on with today's presentation.
With that, I'm going to turn the call over to Larry Ryan to briefly go to the Q2 highlights and get into the presentation. Thank you.
Larry Ryan
Thanks, Stan. Thanks everyone for joining in the call today. We appreciate your time. Just by way of agenda here in the presentation we're going to go through the Q2 highlights, then Stan will come back and talk about some of the financial in IR PR highlights, Florian's going to go through a brief technology updates for you, I will then come back and go through the commercial update of where we are with some exciting programs and then we will go through the expected next steps and then we will open up the lines for a couple of question and answer session.
So with that I will go to the second quarter highlights it was a busy quarter for us here at SulphCo. First of all, we executed our product scale technology evaluation with OMV. As many of you know we signed the technology agreement with OMV in May of this year. Since then we preformed successful pilot scale continuous Sonocracking and hydrotreating trials at OMV's facility in Austria.
And based on those results as we have recently disclosed, OMV is currently utilizing its healthy model which is their linear programming model for economics and their refinery to evaluate one to two specifics applications based on that data.
At the same time we were performing an independent evaluation at intersect part which is a testing lab up in the Pittsburgh area. And we perform pilot scale hydrotreating trial on both untreated and sonocrack diesel fuel and w really produced some favorable results regarding traditional hydrotreating and the value propositions of sonocracking.
Most importantly, was that we observed and Florian will talk about this in some more detail. So that roughly to remove the last 1% of the sulfur from this stream requires of the 50% of the total outage in the consumed during the process.
Most importantly, for us the data was very consistent with the results obtained from OMV. Based on this data and the data package we generated we have been able to really accelerate progress with other commercial prospects. One is with the major integrated oil company, that project is moving forward with true specific application, and I will talk about this little bit later in the presentation but we are pursuing several opportunities with so-called transmix players. So people who collect and distribute offset diesel products.
From a financial perspective cash burn moderated through the resolution of litigation, the reduction of some other expenses, we have also continued raising SulphCo's visibility in the market and media through our IR and PR program. So really we are as a team we are focused on key target application, and our commercial development projects are growing and they are progressing very well.
So with that I'm going to hand it over to Stan for some discussion on the financial side.
Stanley Farmer
Thanks, Larry. Just starting as a comp. As of June 30th we had approximately $10.9 million of cash on hand and approximately $4.7 million of convertible notes available. As we previously announced on July 29, the company prepaid in full the convertible notes payable. The company anticipates the cash reserve should be sufficient to fund requirements into the latter part of the first quarter of 2010 and the company continues to evaluate financing options.
Also during the second quarter of 2009 the company was notified that it had prevailed in the Talisman litigation and that the SEC had completed its investigation at SulphCo and did not intend to take any enforcement action against the company.
On the media and IR front, SulphCo has recently featured in Houston Chronicle article that ran on July 16th edition of the paper and on July 11, 2009, Dr. Schattenmann made a presentation on oxidative desulfurization to the Houston chapter of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics.
We are quite pleased with the progress that we have made on this point thus far. And with I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Florian Schattenmann for the technology update. Thanks. Florian?
Larry Ryan
Just let me (inaudible) for a minute, it seems that there might be some slight problem with the Web site at this point and just we're actively working to the big issues that's possible. So be a little bit patient if it's an issue. Sorry.
With that we are going to turn it over to Florian.
Florian Schattenmann
Larry, Stan, thank you so much, Stan. I am pleased to enter page 7, you see there a schematic of the front end of the typical refinery, I show the same graph last call and we discussed that this is one of the primary opportunities for us in the sonocracking process, but we discussed two options, in the next few pages I will clearly line out why the first one which is the placement of the sonocracking technology host hydrotreating is the preferred area of our focus at this point.
Please turn to page 8. As Larry mentioned at an independent facility call, intersect part, we conducted a series of similar experiments and maybe some of the most important results are shown here on page 8. In this flock you can see the hydrogen consumption versus the sulfur reduction in the hydrotreating of a 3,200 ppm diesel straight run diesel stream. And 100% of hydrogen means that hydrotreat the diesel fuel, the legal limit of well-below ppm, roughly around in this case it was 6 ppm, maybe you can see as you further deep the sulfurize the diesel, you need more, more hydrogen.
But the story changes that around 99% of the sulfur removed when the trajectory of the hydrogen consumption sharply increases and the end result is that or in other words is that the first 99% of the sulfur removal. So from 3,200 tons about 35 ppm requires only about 60% of the hydrogen, the final 40% of the hydrogen are used to remove the last 30 some things of ppm in this diesel. And that clearly gives us a very good cost benefit value that we want to exploit with our sonocracking technology.
Please turn it to page 9 please. Here is one example of many results that we have on the finishing side. This is a previously hydrotreated diesel stream with about 200 ppm, in this case, in the blue treat is the sulfur speciation of the feet diesel stream, the red curve is after our sonocracking process and the green curve is the diesel after we run this treated diesel through an absorption bid. And you can see first of all the most of the sulfur present is actually the hard to hydrotreat sulfur which is the one that we want to attack, but secondly you see a significant conversion of the species to the oxidized version of the sulfur compound. And you can see on the green curve that is newly formed sulfur species action remove very efficiently in a single path absorption.
And on the page 10, I would like to give you sort of complete picture that shows you why finishing of diesel streams is a very good opportunity for us to enter the market. First, diesel is probably the most highly regulated petroleum product stream in the market. On road [ph] diesel is already at below 15 ppm sulfur in the United States, below 10 ppm in the European union and regulation is scheduled according to the EPA plans who tighten up for all other diesel stream.
The typical starting sulfur value that we are using when we start already with previously hydrotreat diesel is already around 100 ppm or lower. And then as we showed on the last slide up to 50% of the hydrogen actually is used to remove that last 1% or 2% of sulfur depending on the stream and by the way I would like to note here that we independently confirm those results with the stream at OMV.
Now it turns off to the observe date of chemistry that we are employing reacts very well with a difficult to hydrotreat compound. And some of those are called calculated dibenzothiophenes and is not really a surprise as hydrotreating is a reductive process, we're in oxidative process, and they typically complement each other. So the bottom line is that there is a very good cost benefit equation for us at SulphCo as the cost of SulphCo process is proportion to the sulfur content and it starts quite low here.
The other thing that we have to consider is barriers of entry and if you are placing a unit downstream of all other major refining processes you disturb the refinery as a lead. And so it's relatively easy to implement. And although this represents a wonderful entry into the market this chemistry involves ever we learn about it will translate to a wide range of applications including other petroleum products streams and crude oil. That sort of the highlight of the technology. And I would like to turn it back to Larry Rein to discuss economic impact.
Larry Ryan
Thanks, Florian. So the next pages will update on our commercial activities. First on page 12, I just like to reiterate our commercial strategy and focus. The current state of our technology addresses multimillion barrel per day global diesel fuel market although we remain active in all market segments.
We are prioritizing applications in terms of technology bid, ease of implementation and cost benefit value to both us and the customers. That's really based on customer feedback, the recent data that we received and developed, this is really pointing to diesel fuel finishing as a great first application.
We are establishing two to three strategic committed large refining customers and focusing on specific applications and execution. Most importantly that we are developing relationships with technology champions within these strategic customers. And also we have a tactical focus which is complementary from the technology standpoint. On projects in the diesel fuel transmix market segment which I'll talk about in a little bit more detail on couple of pages.
So, we turn to page 13. You look at refinery diesel finishing application. From a volume perspective this is typically it's roughly about 20% of the total refining capacity in a given refinery. This as Florian mentioned that diesel typically would contain somewhere a less than 100 parts of million after low pressure hydrotreating. In a lot of cases, hydrotreating is required to meet ultra low sulfur diesel specification.
And as Florian went through removing the last 1% or less than 100 ppm of sulfur consumes after 50% of the total hydrogen requires high intensity processing and also uses quite a bit of catalyst. Also if someone has not made the investment in high pressure hydrotreating the difference between high pressure hydrotreating capital cost and low pressures roughly 1.5 to 2x.
And most importantly, our process addresses these difficult three sulfur compounds which require this high pressure hydrotreat. So in our process provides opportunity for reducing both the capital and operating cost needed to meet sulfur regulations in these applications.
If you look at the transmix diesel finishing application again, these are typically smaller collection facilities where they are collecting that interfacial layer between say if someone shipping gasoline and kerosene and diesel through a pipeline there is always some mixture of these at the interface and these are collected in these transmix facilities.
The typical volume opportunities are somewhere usually in the 1000 to 5000 barrels a day. But what ends up happening is that collect these off spec material because not all of these fuels have the same sulfur specification. And so in order to meet the diesel specification they have to do something. And one of the problems is that they lack the scale to invest in a conventional hydrotreating or expensive sulfur removal technology. Again, the sulfur levels range somewhere between 50 and 300 parts of million so it's in the finishing range.
And a lot of the exemptions that have been in place where diesel produced from these facilities begin to expire in 2010 so there is a market media that needs to be addressed. In our process is an economically attractive option from both capital and operating cost perspective. So this is the good technology fit, it is a smaller volume opportunity, but it's potentially a faster way for us to go and get some revenue for the company.
So in terms of page 15 here, this is the page that folks seen before, what are the benefits from our process, what are people looking for. And really from a commercial perspective is where we are focused is taking lower quality or sulfur containing diesel and making it meet these most stringent regulations.
What we have been able to show and demonstrate based on our work load with OMV as well as interject part, has a lot to do with hydrotreat sulfurisation offshore operations in the mill.
So in terms of lower hydro consumption we have been able to show that you can potentially reduce up to50% of the hydrogen usage, we know that lower temperatures and different catalysts we are able to use that translates into longer catalyst life, puts you a turnaround, low energy requirements, there is a potential that de-bottleneck out of desulphurization unit because of the run time is longer, that turnaround a fewer and therefore you don't have to turn down more the refinery when you are changing out its GS catalyst. So there is a lot in here that we have been able to prove out in some detail from a technology perspective based on our data that we have gained really over the past few months.
From a carbon footprint perspective this is really important category particularly in Europe and become more and more important here in the U.S. If you can reduce the amount of hydrogen that's consumed in these hydrotreating processes, Nevo [ph] refinery is producing hydrogen via from natural gas or some other method in a hydrogen plant they most certainly producing carbon dioxide as a bi-part. So the lower the hydrogen uses that you can have them used, the lower the fuels to footprint is going to be. That's extremely important in a lot of geographies these days as many of you are well aware.
So really where we're stay is at the technical data that we've been able to receive from our work at home as well as intersect part in our labs in Houston, is really confirming these sonocracking benefits, but the real value here is application specific, because although lot of these, I would always categorize it as about 80% of the equipment in the operations in a refinery or other operations are roughly the same that less 15% is different and so therefore the different cost buckets and the different benefit buckets will be really application-specific.
If you go to page 16 and take a look at strategic program focus and status I went through an explanation of this. In the last call I really wanted to just highlight some of the real progress that we've made over the past few months.
Again it's a top of the page here you see that where we're with OMV is that we've taken this now and we've done a tremendous amount of work with them in their facilities with our people in their facilities, working with them, do our process and then take that material and run it through their pilot scale facilities to generate a significant amount of data that's relevant for their system.
We're at the point now where they've taken that data and evaluating it in a rather complex economic model, they've taken all the data that we generated all the parameters and putting in it to the complex model to really drive out what's the value or the benefit is going to be to OMV.
We have another opportunity with major international oil company that was introduced to us about three months or four months ago and now we're really at the point where that's in this three specific evaluation phase, they have a specific requirement that they're looking for, we met the initial technical requirement during the last and we're currently in the process of going forward with them and establishing what the performance need to be in the fuels. We're very excited about this move, very quickly for us and it's really been helped by the data that we've been able to generate over the past several months both independently and with OMV.
The last line on it didn't appear the last time was these transmix folks, they have started, we've been in contact with several of them, there are a lot of companies now that are actively working with us, we have lots of samples going back and forth with them to be able to help them, meet the upcoming regulation that they have to meet in 2010, we're joined probably half a dozen that we're working with and two or three were really in some detailed discussions with about their specific needs, their specific equipment layout and their specific application.
We also have below here you can see there is a few companies that we continue to work with of course, there is one independent oil company here in the U.S. that we've been working with for a long time, they're in the process of reviewing the data that we've given them from intersect park work and again looking at how that's relevant to their internal operations and looking at the benefits for them so it's really an exciting time for us because we've really now with, the work that we've been doing, we're all focused on the goal of driving revenue and commercializing this process as fast as possible, we continue to get more and more data as we go along here and we have very good data packages that really points out the specific benefits for folks in each of their application.
And again just as in the slide of course this is an older program there are all the samples, there are all the customers that we have available, lots of folks at, we're also working with here in the lab in Houston.
So if you look at Page 17 and what the commercial steps are in the progress if we talk about OMV as you know we have this technology agreement that we signed, that's complete, we've developed a specific data set that was part of this technology agreement now we're into this economic evaluation based on those results and we've narrowed it down to a couple of applications where we think the highest benefit will be for both of us. And we expect that we're going to have a go, no-go decision to enter the commercialization phase, based on this work, sometime in this quarter.
In terms of this international oil company opportunity we've established a laboratory results and the data pack we've met the initial technical performance requirements, now we're working with this potential customer and we do expect that this one also will have a go, no-go decision from a commercialization or entering the commercialization phase within this quarter. So we're really focused on getting this opportunity, not just starting opportunities, but moving these opportunities to the commercialization phase and executing.
So in summary, the current state of our technology addresses multi-million barrels a day diesel fuel market. We are focused on this diesel finishing process of refineries and in the transmix market segment.
We are achieving the effective milestones and timing of the OMV program, we anticipate feedback from the economic evaluation in the Q3, this quarter. We're moving forward rapidly with another major international oil company application, again as I've said we've achieved this initial success, we expect this commercial go, no-go decision within this quarter.
And as I mentioned with several transit opportunities that have been developed and the good thing here is that the technology requirement or similar to transition refinery applications so we're able to really concentrate our technology efforts for a wide range of applications so as it seem I think we're really excited and proud of what we're doing, where we're doing and we've made a tremendous amount of progress but clearly as a team we're focused on the commercial development and execution to get the revenue as best as possible.
So with that I would like to thank you for your time and open up the line for a few questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
(Operator instructions) Our first question comes from David Firshein of Cascade Capital Corporation. Please go ahead.
David Firshein – Cascade Capital Corporation
Larry, guys, good, very good report and good luck with it. My questions are focused on any sort of gauge of actual revenue events occurring. Is there anything you can comment on that that makes sense to share?
Larry Ryan
Sure, thanks, David. This past of commercialization is the process. We over the past several months have made a tremendous amount of positive steps in the direction of commercialization of this process. One of the things that one has to remember is that is not like selling a video [ph] I mean this is a process that needs to be developed and almost customize for particular applications because these are complex environment that you are working in. So, David, I am very confident in the direction we're going and the programs that I discussed. I think we continue to make absolutely the right progress and great progress in getting towards commercialization, there are a series of steps, I mean, for example, with OMV, I think that the next steps are that the (inaudible) success and that we have a go ahead into another application, we're going to go through full scale trials in that period and that will take some time but it will always be steps in the positive direction, I think that, that what you can expect from anyone of these opportunities. I do think that transmix opportunity has the potential to go faster because they are near the market and of course that's why they are in our tactical focus and why we're working with them. And so my commitment to you, David, and the rest of the shareholders, is that everyone here is focused on the same thing, which is getting revenue to the company as best as possible to show the commerciality is responsible.
David Firshein – Cascade Capital Corporation
Do you think there is a chance for that by the end of the year or we are talking 2010?
Larry Ryan
David, its hard to say, what I can tell you, David, we're doing everything we can to take any delay from our side out of this issue, but I can't control is what potential customers is so I don't want to comment on that other than again our commitment to you is we are not letting ourselves to be any part of the delay.
David Firshein – Cascade Capital Corporation
Follow on to that last question from me as you ink any of these deals in terms of the milestones of turning them commercial what's your anticipation of the copycat customers that would follow on, is it already happening or is there piling on or is that once you say like if you turn it OMV, do you anticipate having too many customers to deal with or what?
Larry Ryan
I know its rash, what I would say David is that what's been a very positive favorable experience for us is having this intersect part data that we develop and also having that the consistent with the work that we performed at OMV because now when you talk to folks that are in the stage clearly they understand the impact of that can have on their system and no longer do we, the introductory period or the discussion period upfront does the technology work and such a thing is over and we can really get into what is the potential benefits for them, so, I would say, it's my thought in them, pretty confident that once you get one of these things really going then having customers is not a problem.
David Firshein – Cascade Capital Corporation
Thanks very much.
Larry Ryan
Thank you, David.
(Operator instructions) Our next question is from Jim Van Allen of Philadelphia Investors. Please go ahead.
Jim Van Allen – Philadelphia Investors
Hi Larry, and everybody else, this sounds very encouraging, could you tell us what the difference is if there is any between your expectations or your schedule between now and in the middle of June when you had your annual meeting. I mean you go on faster then you thought, has there been hurdles that everybody expects hurdles but unforeseen hurdles what…
Larry Ryan
I think the answer to that is I think that our work with OMV has progressed almost exactly as we would have thought it. We said in May that we were going to spend a couple of months to work in the facilities, they're generating data we did that on time, we've now entered into the next phase of that program, if you will, as expected. Probably I think we're faster and the other two opportunities that I mentioned here on the call today the international companies go to the transmix players because we've only really in the path I would say month or so seen a tremendously accelerated interest from them. So I think we are pretty happy with the fact that those are going like fast than we expected but we're just as happy that we're doing everything, we start we're going to do on the OMV program.
Jim Van Allen – Philadelphia Investors
Well that sounds great. Do you see any comp change in the competitive arena or and what is the competitive arena right now, are there other people using, for instance, sonocracking to get into your space?
Larry Ryan
Well, I mean of course, a lot of folks have seen announcements from Detro Avac [ph] and PetroSonic –
Jim Van Allen – Philadelphia Investors
Larry Ryan
Jim, what I would say is we are very confident and comfortable with our intellectual property position and that those guys notwithstanding I think that we're going to protect our intellectual property always and diligently, we're always looking at the competitive landscape but the proof of the putting here is getting the thing to commercialization so we always have in our eyesight, but we are focused on execution.
Jim Van Allen – Philadelphia Investors
Okay. And just one more have you been with going out and seeing some of the mutual funds and investors?
Larry Ryan
We have done a lot of that. Having just Stan on board, he has been helping to maintain a lot of contact with investors especially on the follow-up with folks, we've between Stan, Florian, myself and Geoff, we have touched a lot of accounts and we are going to continue to do so because we have a great story. We're telling folks that story and we're in a mode where we're delivering on the items that several going to deliver on. So it's a good time that we will be able to talk into potential new investors and existing investors.
Jim Van Allen – Philadelphia Investors
Are they actually the potential new investors or the coming investors?
Larry Ryan
You 'd have to ask them. What I can tell you is the general feedback is pretty positive, you never know.
Jim Van Allen – Philadelphia Investors
Okay, thank you and well done.
Larry Ryan
Thank you.
Our next question comes from Kevin Brady of Raymond James, please go ahead.
Kevin Brady – Raymond James
Larry, thanks for taking the call and congratulations on the great steps. You referenced go, no-go decisions in the third quarter by two companies, both OMV and the other international oil company. How is that go decision or hopefully not no-go decision be communicated to shareholders?
Larry Ryan
Well, let me once you get to that point, Kevin, you are talking about a real commitment by both parties, so therefore you will know about it. This is now a point where both parties will have committed to really entering the commercialization phase which means if your customer you're committing your resources and money and time in a significant way and likewise for us in this material you will know.
Kevin Brady – Raymond James
So, your material is on a PR release?
Larry Ryan
Kevin Brady – Raymond James
Thank you.
Larry Ryan
No problem. I think we have time for one more question.
And our last question comes from David Monson [ph], private investor. Please go ahead.
David Monson
Yes, Larry, I have been a shareholder for many, many years, substantial one. Question regarding refineries generally, their catalyst that they use in a refining process a great portion of them are rare hoarse and they made you source for rare earth is China. And China has been reducing the volumes of rare earth substantially that they are willing to export. As the rare earth for catalic usages in many areas but especially in refining yet reduced, does this improve the position for SulphCo?
Larry Ryan
David, that's a good point. I think the short answer is we believe that based on the data that we've obtained that we can allow for a longer living catalyst life in the hydrotreating application, we find it use a lot of catalyst and a lot of different processes, but when it comes to the hydrotreating catalyst we think we can extend that life and help them operate in a milder condition, how that impact is one way or the other from your observations or knowledge from the China market, I really can't comment on because this is now what we do.
David Monson
When you say you extend the life in a hydrotreating process that you do it by 20% or by (inaudible).
Larry Ryan
It depends, when I give you consulting answer it depends. It depends a lot on what the person is doing today and what catalysts are using today, what we can say is that we can (inaudible) data that it looks like it's several degrees lower starting temperature, lower pressure to reach the same sulfur level, so there is a lot of things puts and takes that can win there, but is really dependent on the catalyst that's being used.
David Monson
Thank you very much.
Larry Ryan
Thank you, Dave. I just like to take the time again to thank folks who have been on the call. We are extremely upbeat of where the company is and where we are going. We are making great progress on the program as we laid out here and we are committed to communicating our events to you as they occur in a timely fashion. So again thanks a lot everyone and I hope you all have a great Friday and weekend.
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference. Thank you very much of your participation. You may now disconnect.
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There are 101 comments on the Las Cruces Sun-News story from Jul 26, 2009, titled Letters: Proper perspective on global warming. In it, Las Cruces Sun-News reports that:Robert Endlich's column on the "facts of global warming" describes a narrow perspective based on selective use of currently available climate data.
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#1 Jul 26, 2009
Mr Skinner, the Sun-News is not going to change it's editorial bent. It serves as mainly a liberal organ for the abundant left wingers, which outnumber conservative views. Unfortunately, most of this State is controlled and run by Democrats. We can only hope that more citizens see what the Democratic Party stands for: making people dependent on the government, creating and maintaining class warfare, and having total control over peoples lives, to mention just a few.
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#2 Jul 26, 2009
RE: DONALD NEIDIG's letter concerning "Global Warming."
First, I agree that we, the human race, are causing the warming. We are measuring temperatures in areas which we have created, with concrete, stucco, areas covered with plants which don't usually grow there naturally, and have generally messed up the landscape by moving out of natural caves, and building artificial, above ground caves to live in.
In addition, we have harnessed energy electricity, burning of natural gas/oil, and generally made things a lot easier for ourselves, by creating energy consuming 'slaves,' and getting rid of the human slaves of earlier years.
In a prior missive, I asked why, if Death Valley was undergoing 'Global Warming,' we had not established a new record high temperature there, since the Highest Temperature Measured for the United States was established in 1913 (135 degrees). Perhaps it is because there has not been a significant change in the exposure of the instruments at that location, by having a bunch of buildings/condo's/black Macadam highways built around the site. In other words, we have surrounded most observing stations with buildings and new energy sources, which have the effect of creating artificial heat islands (UHI) in cities, and are measuring something other than what was originially measured at that location, before 1900.
When we learn to measure the temperature for 100 years at a site which has had no changes, including any changes within at least 100 miles, with the same sensors which we started with, and show a temperature increase which is above the accuracy tolorance and noise of the instrument, then I will admit that we have a problem. However, we must also consider that instruments 'drift,' and shelters change their colors, and must maintain them by proper calibration and cleaning/painting/refurbishing with the original finishes, in order to keep the colleting of the data as close as possible to that which it was when we started.
It looks like about the only one which qualifies is the Death Valley site, and it was moved in the 1930s from its original site, according to the few documents which give any information on it...
In addition, many of the original observing stations have been shut down, due to the loss of the observers, and relocated where someone can do the job, and is willing to do the job, rather than remaining at the old location (Generally relocated to towns from their original isolated farms). This changes exposure, surroundings, and, because the new temperature sensors have to have a cable to connect to the house where the readings are recorded, and where electricity is available, generally are close to the house, or other buildings, not out in an open field away from everything. Just maybe, this relocation might contribute to the higher temperature readings.
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Obama and the Democrats know their socialized health care scheme is a tough sell for the American people. And if they give our taxpayer funded health care to illegal aliens, they know they will pay dearly at the ballot box. A recent Rasmussen poll stated that 80% of Americans are against government providing health care to illegals.
With this in mind, Senate Finance Chair Max Baucus said, "We're not going to cover undocumented aliens, undocumented workers. That's too politically explosive."
Translation: he wants it, but the American people won't stand for it.
Even Barack Obama said this week that he was against giving national health care to illegal aliens with one important exception, the usual left wing canard. He wants it for the children. He wants taxpayers to pay for the health care of all illegal alien minors-sounds like a fantastic reason for foreigners to travel to the US illegally-especially if they have a really sick or needy child.
But Obama didn't stop there-and risk disappointing La Raza and the other open border fanatics who support him. He added that he would solve the problem of uninsured illegals by creating "a situation where we're dealing with illegal immigration, so that we don't have illegal immigrants... And I want a comprehensive immigration plan that creates a pathway to achieve that." In other words we will first give them amnesty, and then health care!
But even this is a lie. Illegal aliens will be able to get Obama care. The bill doesn't say straight out "we're giving health care to illegals," but there is absolutely nothing in the bill that requires screening to ensure that illegal aliens don't abuse the system. This past week Congressman Dean Heller introduced an Amendment to the Ways and Means Committee that would have required that the federal government to verify the legal status of applicants for the government health care plan or credits for private health insurance. Every single Democrat on the Committee voted against this common sense Amendment!
Let's show Baucus just how "politically explosive" giving free health care to lawbreakers is. Call up your representative and tell them to vote against Obama Care. Tell them that if they vote for the bill, they are voting to give billions of dollars of your tax dollars to illegal aliens, and that you will hold them responsible come election time.
This fight is raging right now. Some conservative Democrats are trying to stop this insanity. But they need your help. I'll be writing a column about the fraud of Obama care and bringing it up on television but the best way to stop it is the same way we stopped the treasonous amnesty bill-with your calls.
Thanks for all you do to keep Washington from taking this country right over the edge. If we can hold on for another fifteen months we can throw some of these bums out and send to Congress Americans who will fight for us! Please call today, and again on Monday and Tuesday!
With all my respect and appreciation,
Bay Buchanan- Team America
#4 Jul 26, 2009
RE: DONALD NEIDIG's letter concerning "Global Warming."
We are not experiencing global warming that is unusual or unprecedented.
Mr. Neigig's letter points out that past extreme warmings happened millions of years ago, that's true. He also points out that there have been warmer and cooler time periods in our recent history. The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age.
Mr. Neigig's estimation of the extent of the MWP and the LIA however is erroneous. Both of these climate periods lasted between 300 and 400 years, depending on the location on the earth. Yes both the MWP and the LIA were global events.
If you count the warming as a result of comming out of the LIA, then our current warming has been happening for the last 100 - 150 years. Not even half of either of the prior climate events.
Did you know that during the LIA, our earth saw the largest extent of glaciation since the younger dryas, 12,000 years ago? The LIA was one of the coldest periods of our holocene optimum.
The holocene optimum is the interglacial that we currently live in. An interglacial is the interruption of a period of glaciation during an ice age. We are in an ice age. The last 3million years have been an ice age with the last 500,000 years being the most severe period of the ice age.
There have been many periods of warm and cool during our holocene. Backwards, it looks like this for the last 2500 years.
LIA cold
MWP warm
Dark Ages Cold Period cold
Roman Warm Period warm
You get the pattern, here's a look at the holocene as recorded in the vostok ice core data.
Here's a look at our holocene as compared with the eemian, the prior interglacial.
Here's a look at the last 500,000 years from the vostok ice core data.
And for fun here's headline from 1895 on climate change.
#5 Jul 26, 2009
Right you are. We have a lot of 'issues' with the method of collecting data. In the 90s many rural reporting stations were dropped and as a result there was an immediate increase in 'global warming'.
Here's a look at 2008 compared to 1880. The graphic shows 2008 cooler in parts of the US than it was in 1880. 1880 is when the mechanically measured temperatures begin for the purpose of measuring global warming. The grey sections are areas of the globe where there is no reporting. Take a good look and ask yourself how we can know how hot we've got if we don't have records to compare.
How about 1890?
1900 Are we warmer or cooler in 2008 than in 1900 in South America or Africa or Antarctica, who knows not many if any temperatures are recorded for the purpose of determining climate.
1910 US still cooler in 2008 than in 1910. Why is that important? The US has the longest most reliable temperature record of any country. England has the longest temperature record for a singular location.
#6 Jul 26, 2009
1950, 2008 cooler in the US but warmer for many areas of the world.
1960 Slight decrease in global warming, Asia still hot.
1980 Western hemisphere cooler in 2008 than in 1980, southern hemisphere cooler/about the same. Asia still hot.
1990 Where did the global warming go? 2008 cooler in many areas of the 'global' record than in 1990.
For fun 1998, the warmest year on record.
2000 Find the 'global warming'
#7 Jul 26, 2009
You seem to want to ignore the selected data in order to
preserve the status quo of the theory.
The problem here, is the "Selective use of unsubstantiated forecasts as a means of UPplaying" imagined crises by those with a different vested interest.
ALL of the global temperature trends ( MSU-MT, MSU-LT, sea surface temprature, land-ocean temperature indices )
are well below the IPCC's best estimate for the "LOW scenario" of about 1.8K/century.
And ALL of the major global temperature trends indicate
a DEceleration from that sub IPCC modeled rate.
The fifteen year trends are lower than the thirty year trends.
The ten year trends are lower than the fifteen year trends.
And the seven year trends are now cooling trends.
And the middle troposphere shows a cooling trend since 1996.
Should this cooling continue, in association with the solar
magnetic decline, it will mean much of the twentieth century warming was likely due to the millenial solar magnetic maximum which peaked in the 1990s.
This is a theory we can and should all test going forward.
And craft a more complete theory which doesn't exclude 'selected' data because it might contradict a previous theory.
#8 Jul 26, 2009
I always thought the Sun News was too conservative right-wing. Read Krauthammers column. No matter what he is writing about, there is an Obama bash included. He wrote a column last week about going to the moon and bashed Obama, saying that Bush envisioned us going back to the moon by 2020 and so far we've heard nothing from Obama. Well, Bush didn't "envision" us going back to the moon until three years into his first term, and Obama increased NASA budget by over a billion dollars emphasizing that we need to do more space exploration, less than six months into his first term. I wish the Sun News would stop buying Krauthammers column and go back with Kathleen Parker, a much more reasonable voice.
#9 Jul 26, 2009
Global warming has happened in past eras but never so quickly. As global warming occurs, the ice shelf melts which affects ocean currents and ocean temperatures. The change in ocean temps and currents causes weather and climate change that is hard to predict. An increase in hurricanes, drought, monsoons, hotter temps, cooler temps. Anything can happen. Even if man is not to blame, isn't it a good policy to keep pollution to a minimum?
#10 Jul 26, 2009
It is time to vote all congressmen out of office regardless of their party affiliation. That is still our right and responsibility to ourselves and future generations.
--RON PRENTICE / Las Cruces
Amen! We need to "drain the swamp", and put in people who are in touch with reality.
Since: Jul 09
Las Cruces NM
#11 Jul 26, 2009
The antarctic ice shelf is growing!!!
Almería, Spain
#12 Jul 26, 2009
Some very interesting information!
I'd be grateful for any links that cite these claims?
#13 Jul 26, 2009
Not so.
The sea surface temperatures rose at a greater rate (1.7K per century) from 1910 through 1945.
Surface temperatures rose at a lower but comparable rate during this period.
Anything has ALWAYS happened:
Droughts, floods, and cyclones also dominate this list:
And it doesn't seem to have much to do with what the statistical global average temperature is.
CO2 is not pollution.
There are no carbohydrates without carbon dioxide.
No carbohydrates means no
cheetos, or carrot sticks, or prime rib, or Pinot Grigio, or whatever it is you consume!
All plants grow better, yield more and are more drought tolerant in studies of doubled and even tripled CO2.
Since: Apr 08
"the green troll"
#14 Jul 26, 2009
Oh come on!
This crap was put out by the fossil fuel industry shills months ago!
*I* could post you the links.
#15 Jul 26, 2009
Proper perspective is not a directive.
"I Luv Carbon Dioxide"
Since: Dec 08
Home, sweet home.
#16 Jul 26, 2009
You did post an interesting experimental test of the greenhouse effect:
This test shows two atmospheres, one with 380ppm CO2 and the other with 1,000,000ppm CO2. The astounding result is that the atmosphere with 2632 times more CO2 warmed only 4 degrees centigrade more than the container with 380ppm CO2. The greenhouse effect is far weaker than the IPCC says. Someone should clue them in.
"I'm not really a teacher."
Since: Mar 08
#17 Jul 26, 2009
To categorically deny there is any possibility of climate change due to our output of C02 is just as stupid as insisting there is.
The systems involved are far too complex for even the very smartest people to decipher. Us too.
#18 Jul 26, 2009
You must be the "the very smartest people" you just deciphered the complex system and formed a dogmatic conclusion.
Basically you just said that "Every scientist" is stupid. The honest ones, the ones singing the politically correct song, and those caught up the middle.
Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will..
Geoffrey G. Duffy,
a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.
CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another .
Every scientist
knows this,
but it doesnt pay to say so
Global warming, as a political vehicle,-
Dr. Takeda Kunihiko,
vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.
Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense
The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle.
It became an ideology, which is concerning.-
Environmental Scientist
Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal,
the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.
Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.-
Atmospheric physicist
James A. Peden,
formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.
#19 Jul 26, 2009
Better cover your hot butt because global FREEZING is upcoming.
FACT: The earth is cooling at MINUS 0.001 degree Celsius per year.
#20 Jul 26, 2009
Keep it to yourself.
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