San Luis Valley RC&D SEED Park Status Today 6 March 2008 Nick C. Parker Global Scientific, Inc. Lubbock, TX www.globalscientific.org
SEED Park Update SSED 5 June 2015
Municipal Solid Waste
Ag Residues
WHY CHANGE?
WHY? Global Population Global Resources Energy Metals Water Recycling Products Examples
Old McDonald s Farm Sustainable A SEED Park Cows Pigs Chickens Ducks Sheep Farmer & Family Manure & residues Corn Cotton Beans Hay Wheat
Modern Farm or Industrial Farm Non-Sustainable Feed Truck Cows Pigs Chickens Ducks Sheep Manure Piles Contaminates H 2 O & Air Greenhouse gases Trucks Cropland nutrients City Landfill
Stakeholders Meeting Sponsored by: Hosted by: Conducted by: Global Scientific, Inc.
Mission: to build a SEED Park a Sustainable Environmental and Economic Development Park
Process: 2 years planning Meetings w/rc&d Formation of SEED Park Steering Committee Funding for Feasibility Study USDA Grant CO-DOE Grant Economic Development Zone
Process: Stakeholders Meeting Summary Report Selection of Top Ten Potential Businesses by Stakeholders Top Ten Business Plans developed Negotiations for land underway Database established for Stakeholders Letters sent to Stakeholders to expand database
Stakeholders identified 73 potential businesses
Business Plans developed by GSI Fish/plant production Carbon recycling Green building Herbs Potato waste (pharmaceuticals) Wood pellets NOT FEASIBLE Dairy goats Feed mill Compost
San Luis Valley SEED Park Location? Where?
San Luis Valley Resource Conservation & Development Council SEED Park
Ideal Location Criteria: 5,000 10,000 A Large water rights Geothermal potential Solar potential Utilities Transportation corridors Communications Natural Resources Enterprise zone Tourism potential
Perceived Problems Too Big! Too CoMpleX!
Solution: ONE STEP at a time
Need Matching funds Community support Industrially Zoned Site 200-400 acres
Ag Recycling No Pie-in-the-Sky Projects Real projects Simple Projects Theop Inslee Conner, OK Reeve AgriEnergy Garden City, KS Colorado Gators San Luis Valley Colorado Aquaculture Lamar, CO E3 Biofuels Mead, NE
The Toyota lottery doesn t work John Molinaro, Aspen Institute If rural America is to be saved (jobs, economy, etc.) it must save itself.
SEED Parks Sustainable Environmental and Economic Development Parks
Liquid containing water, nitrogen, and carbon Energy, gas or carbon $ Modular Production System Components 2 nd Level Tm t 3 rd Level Tm t Raw Inputs Core Production Forestry CAFO s Industry 1 st Level Tm t Anaerobic Digestion Compost I. F. Pond Treatment Treatment Algae Flowers Plants Duckweed Tree Seedlings $ Insects Worms Fish Animals Animals $ MSW City Sludge $ Gasifier/ Turbine 5 th Level Tm t Value Added Products Ash Electricity $ Steam Turbine Low Grade Heat Vegetables Herbs Edible Plants 4 th Level Tm t October 2004 Beta Carotene Nutraceuticals $
World Energy Consumption/yr 1 million years worth of fossil deposits burned/yr oil reserves accumulated over 500 million years burning the fossil equivalent of about 200 million barrels of oil/day
Sustainable Energy Solar Geothermal Biomass Hydrogen Photovoltaic Solar ponds Solar thermal Wind Solar Power Tower
Biomass the energy of Stored Sunshine
Plants + Water = Biomass Biomass = Food Feed Chemicals Energy
Biomass also includes: Forestry industry residue WOODCHIPS
WOODCHIPS Energy Methane Hydrogen Combustion Syngas Biosyndiesel
ZONE CHANGE REQUEST Location 7 miles East of Alamosa, Adjacent to the Rail Road, on North side of Rail Road. 1 mile south of Hwy 160 Adjacent to a 115-acre parcel of Property of Alamosa County. Size 80 Acres Owners Erwin Young and E.C. Cordova
Land Use Current on 80 Acres Tax Value $20,092 Taxes $462 Employees 0
PROPOSED PHASE I Biosyndiesel Plant Proposed on 40 acres Tax Value $8,000,000 Taxes $184,000 Direct Employees 24-29 Supplier Employees 12-18 Direct Payroll/year $1,000,000 Supplier Payroll/year $600,000
DEHYDRATION PLANT PROPOSED ON 10 ACRES Tax value $5,000,0000 Direct employees 35-40 Supplier employees 5 Direct payroll/year $1,000,000 Supplier payroll/year $150,000
COMBINED TOTAL PROPOSED ON 50 ACRES Tax value $13,000,000 Taxes $299,500 Employees 76-87 Payroll/year $2,750,000
PROPOSED PHASE II OTHER SEED PARK POTENTIAL BUSINESSES 8 BUSINESSES $26 MILLION CAPITAL 193 JOBS
Total for 10 businesses $39 MILLION CAPITAL 269-282 JOBS INDUSTRIAL ZONED LAND REQUIRED-----200-300 acres COMMERCIAL ZONED LAND REQUIRED---20-100 acres AG ZONED LAND REQUIRED------------2435-2600 acres* TOTAL LAND REQUIRED----------------2,655-3,000 acres* *Agricultural land to be spread over six counties
Proposed Businesses for the seed park: Land requirements Business Plan Title Agricultural Commercial Industrial Total Aquaculture & Hydroponics 35 5 40 Carbon Recycling & Hydrogen Fuel 5 15 20 Composting 20 20 Malt Barley 20 20 Herbs 5 5 Dairy Goats 90 5 5 100 Feed Mill 20 20 Organic Poultry Operations 2,305 5 5 2,315 Biosyndiesel 40 40 Food Dehydration 5 10 15 Value-added Processing 5 5 Research & Development 5 20 25 Total 2,435 30 160 2,625 Agricultural-rural land spread over six counties
Research & Development
Renewable Bio-Energy from America s Waste Material
Woody Biomass and/or Green Waste Materials Operating Scenario Woody biomass is most extensively tested feedstock Easy to run and predictable results Woodchips and green waste materials also extensively tested All rebates apply provided material is all biological and not synthetic Minimal ash (3 4% dry input weight) make fertile soil supplement
Flexible Modular Production Set-up Plants are designed and constructed in 75 250 dry tprdoules (about 3.9 12 mmgpy) as shown below. Allows for flexibility in feedstock acquisition Allows flexibility in output profile Woody Biomass GFTUnit 1 GFTUnit 1 GFTUnit 1 Bio-synthetic Diesel Woody Biomass GFTUnit 1 GFTUnit 1 Bio JetFuel Bio Gasoline
SEED Park Update SSED 5 June 2015