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Comment #49110073
Thank you for the kind words!
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Comment #49087047
It depends per supplier. Dairy farms, wastewater treatment plants and food and beverage biogas producers all produce biogas in anaerobic digesters. The put their manure, biosolids …
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Comment #49084510
Yes we could, we have briefly looked into that. Ultimately, it did not make sense for us to pursue that at the time, but it definitely means that if we ever feel the need to expand…
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Comment #49083026
Appreciate the kind words, we are beyond pumped to get to building this thing
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Comment #49079113
We are not not interested in flared natural gas sites. It is often just a logistical question of where we are going to get the CO2 from.
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Comment #49079100
Really appreciate the critical comments. I'd love to give some insight into how we look at these different ideas. I wholeheartedly agree that the priority should be to get somethin…
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Comment #49079041
That sounds like you might have had a pretty similar sales process to what we are going through. What was your experience selling 3HB like?
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Comment #49078943
Great question! Thanks for asking :) The power draw is meaningful but from our ASPEN simulations it is not as crazy as you would expect. So far all of the utilities we have spoken …
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Comment #49078917
Awesome question! I've spent all of my time this summer grinding out both the biogas supply and the chemical offtake and I think it will always be slightly easier to convince someo…
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Comment #49078876
Thank you so much for the thoughtful comment and questions :) We take in raw biogas and do the scrubbing ourselves. We are working with a specialized gas cleaning firm to build the…
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Comment #49076093
If you know the name of this site I will reach out to them this week because the location is pretty ideal. Texas is the walhalla for chemicals in the U.S. so we are definitely scou…
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Comment #49076080
We do it with biogas specifically because it enables us to produce chemicals with a 90% lower carbon footprint. Our thesis has always been that when you combine cheap waste feedsto…
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Comment #49076037
Thanks for the kind words! We appreciate it, let me know if you'd like me to add you to our newsletter. You can also sign up for it at rise-reforming.com/team.
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Comment #49076017
For a little more context. Any wastewater treatment plant treating more than 5MGD is likely to produce more than 45 SCFM of biogas.
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Comment #49075824
Thanks for question! One of the benefits of our tech is we think we can go to pretty small sites and still be profitable. Our latest estimate is that a site would need to produce a…
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Comment #49075740
Thanks for the comment and the kind words! That does sound like a pretty cool technology! Is 3-hydroxy-butyrate a specialty chemical? Or would you also end up selling it as a commo…
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Comment #49075716
Great question! Thanks for asking. The GTM is tricky because it is so closely linked with scaling the technology, and because it is so two-sided. The way we currently do it is we l…