User talk:Kimosutt

Diamond Head Renewable Resourses
First closed system process ethanol plant in America to be located in Hawai'i because of carbon credits or cost to emit CO2. GHGs to be used for recycling with algae to carbon free and a closed system process in new plant. No ethanol is made in Hawai'i yet. See Ethanol fuel in Hawaii.

Diamond Head Renewable Resources LLC,is a Hawai'i company that will build a commercial energy and ethanol plant in Honolulu. It will be the fist refinery of it's kind in America to include GHGs (Green House Gas) recycling with algae. It will be a closed system process by not just venting the CO2 into the atmosphere. This means a zero carbon footprint. They will use waste and biomass not food, to produce the energy and ethanol. This green approach to alternative energy and fuels is an epiphany for the industry.

“We will have a large construction project  in three stages and provide many new high tech jobs. The use of garbage and green waste will keep hundreds of thousands of tons out of Honolulu's landfills. Dumping will be free for most cellulosic waste that can be used.” Said Warner Kimo Sutton CEO “ Thus saving private companies thousands of dollars a year.” “We can even use the methane from the land fill for energy to reduce GHGs.”

Algae grown in a vertical biogenerator can 'eat' the CO2 generated in the plant. Along with making oxygen the algae will be used in making biofuel. Algae research in Hawaii has many strains and the carbon sequestered will be sold as credits in a Cap and Trade system. The sun shining longer all year round in Honolulu will be a big plus growing algae ." We hope to use reverse osmosis processed waste water from sewer for the plant.  The drying building will use solar resources. " Sutton added.

The first of three phases will have a 5 MWe power plant and 12 MMgy second generation ethanol refinery. The process will be by gasification to syngas then used to make energy in a turbine generator or fuels through a catalyst. The ethanol technology  is being piloted in Washington this Spring to be licensed by Diamond Head. The algae biogenerators are in pilot operation and ready for commercial operation when construction is started in a year. Federal incentives make the loans for this plant possible with most of the capital guaranteed. The final phase will make the plant three times as large as the first stage and take three years of expansion. The cost in 2009 dollars for all three phases is expected to be $200 million. Kimosutt (talk) 19:35, 9 February 2009 (UTC)WKS