Washington DC Energy & Environmental Funders

Hosting Sponsor:
Andrews Kurth LLP

The Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership, Inc., will sponsor its next Washington, DC Energy & Environmental Funders’ meeting on Friday February 6, 2009.

Global Research Technology, LLC, is commercializing the only technology currently available to reduce past emissions of CO2. The Air-Capture units extract CO2 from ambient air. They do not have to be located near the source of emissions and can therefore be placed where the CO2 will be used or stored.

Stationary carbon capture, by contrast, often employs the so-called "post-combustion" method, generally at power plants, separating CO2 from hot flue gases before they are emitted from the flue stack. Both stationary capture and air-capture use sorbents to capture CO2 from an air stream. Both processes have steps to then separate out, clean and pressurize the CO2 product.

Stationary capture technologies aim to capture CO2 as it is being produced at the site of combustion. Air-capture is different in that it collects the CO2 that is already in the air. Typically, the air-capture unit will be at a different location from the source of CO2 emissions.

Air-capture can reduce CO2 concentrations from any source, including emissions from point sources, from dispersed human sources such as automobiles and airplanes, and from natural sources like forest fires and volcanoes. Unlike stationary capture, air-capture can address past emissions which are a growing component of current carbon dioxide concentrations.

Carbon dioxide from air-capture will serve both existing commercial markets and open new markets for CO2. Controlled environment agriculture (CEA greenhouses) and algae cultivation (biofuel feedstock) are exciting possibilities where increasing the level of CO2 enhances plant productivity and quality of the produce (vegetables, fruit or flowers). CO2 is already an important industrial chemical with a myriad of end-uses ranging from food processing and food transportation to enhanced oil recovery. Other uses include water treatment, plastic and rubber foaming, fire extinguisher fluid, dry ice for metal cleaning/blasting and fumigants in grain storage. In the end, to the degree the captured CO2 cannot be used, it will be permanently stored in what is referred to as carbon capture and storage (CCS) or simply carbon sequestration. Klaus S. Lackner, Ph.D., Scientific Adviser and Chairman, will explain the technology, its potential place in the future of carbon capture, and the company's business model.

Sector Expert: To be announced

Date: Friday, February 6, 2009
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 am
Place: Andrews Kurth LLP
1350 I Street, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20006
202-662-2700

Security: You will need to sign in, show a picture ID and tell the security personnel that you are attending CEEP's DC Energy & Environmental Funders meeting at Andrews Kurth LLP in Suite 1100. If you have not pre-registered, ask them to call Brenda Beatty, at 202-662-3078, or Gelvin Stevenson at 917-599-6089.

Please note: The elevators and office open at 8:00am-not before. Seating is limited, so please register early so we know how many people will attend. Walk-ins are allowed, but advanced registration is strongly preferred. If you haven't registered, please bring your check made out to CEEP, Inc.

Nearest Metro stop: The building is between 13th and 14th Street. You can exit at McPherson Square and cross the street to the building or exit Metro Center on 13th Street (and G Street) and walk up to 13th and I, where you make a left and cross the street.

Cost: $50 if you pre-register.
Cash or checks (payable to CEEP) accepted. Must register or cancel by 4pm the previous day. No shows will be invoiced.
$60 if you pay at the door.
See below for Annual Registration opportunities and other important conditions.

Agenda:
8:00 to 8:20 – Networking with Members
8:30 to 9:00 – Presentation by Klaus S. Lackner, Ph.D., Scientific Adviser and Chairman
9:00 to 9:30 – Company presentation by Sector Expert: To be announced
9:30 to 10:00 – Discussion and Networking

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you at the next DC Funders meeting.

If you have any questions about registration or need more information about the program, please contact Gelvin Stevenson at gelvin@optonline.net.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

Klaus S. Lackner, Ph.D., Scientific Adviser and Chairman, earned three degrees from Heidelberg University, Germany, culminating with a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics, summa cum laude, in 1978. He won the Clemm-Haas Price for outstanding Ph. D. thesis at Heidelberg University.

Prof. Lackner joined the faculty of Columbia University in 2001, where he is now the Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering. He held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center before joining Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1983. He has been a scientist in the Theoretical Division for much of that time, but has also been part of the Laboratory's upper management.

Klaus Lackner's scientific career started in the phenomenology of weakly interacting particles. Later searching for quarks, he and George Zweig developed the chemistry of atoms with fractional nuclear charge. He is still participating in matter searches for particles with a non-integer charge in an experiment conducted at Stanford by Martin Perl and his group. After joining Los Alamos National Laboratory, Klaus Lackner became involved in hydrodynamic work and fusion related research. In recent years, he has published on the behavior of high explosives, novel approaches to inertial confinement fusion, and numerical algorithms. His interest in self-replicating machine systems has been recognized by Discover Magazine as one of seven ideas that could change the world. Presently he is developing innovative approaches to energy issues of the future. He has been instrumental in forming ZECA, the Zero Emission Coal Alliance, which is an industry-led effort to develop coal power with zero emissions to the atmosphere. His recent work is on environmentally acceptable technologies for the use of fossil fuels.

Advisory Board
Dave Berg, consultant, formerly Senior Policy Advisor, DOE's National Energy Policy Office
Mark Riedy, Andrews Kurth LLC
Ira Rubenstein, Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership, Inc.,
Scott Sklar, President, The Stella Group, Ltd.
David South, President, Technology & Market Solutions, LLC
Gelvin Stevenson, Ph.D., Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership, Inc.

DCE&EF Pricing Policy
1. Cost, with pre-registration up to 4pm the day before the meeting: $50.
2. No-shows will be invoiced.
3. Cancellations allowed until 4pm the day before the meeting.
4. Cost, with registration at the door the day of the meeting: $60.
5. All paid registrants will be emailed any information made available electronically for that meeting.
6. An Annual Registration for DCE&EF can be purchased for $400. It will provide admittance to all regularly scheduled meetings held during a 12-month period.
7. Annual registrants will be emailed any information made available electronically for any of the regularly scheduled meetings covered by their annual registration.

Formed in February 2004, DC Energy & Environmental Funders (DCE&EF) is a joint service of Investors Circle, the Energy & Environmental Capital Network (ECN), the Environmental Business Association of New York State, Inc. (EBA/NYS), Investors Circle and Cleantech Venture Network LLC (Cleantech). DCE&EF provides networking, information, and other services to investors interested in energy and environmental companies. DCE&EF activities are produced by the Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership, Inc. (CEEP) in furtherance of its educational mission.

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