We're going to hear from three more innovators.



Two of them are nominees for this year's world technology awards . One is Randy Cortright who's the
co-founder and CTO of our Viron Energy Systems. He's a co-nominee for the award for energy.

Robert Levin founder and CO of Trans Flick. He has participated in a few of the world technology summits. He's not a nominee
this year but any members who wish to nominate in the future after you hear what he is doing are free
to do so and of Dr. Geordie Rose who is the president and CO of D-wave, a quantum computing systems
company who's a nominee for the IT hardware award this year. Well, good afternoon. It's a pleasure
to be here and also to be nominated for this award. What I'd like to talk today about is the technology that we're
developing at Viront energy systems.

As many of you know, energy is a big topic and because of the price of oil and natural gas, a number
of technologies are now starting to gain notice and the technology that we're working with is really a method
that enables

people to utilize biomass and to generate a variety of different fuels.

So the technology uses compounds that are derived from biomass. Trying to see here such as
glycerol, glucose which is corn sugar, sucrose which is cane sugars, as well as simpler sugars such as
xylose which can be derived from hemasaylos fraction of biomass. And what we have developed is a, is initially, at
the University of Wisconsin, myself and Jim Dimessi who is the other co-nominee

with myself and also co-founder of Viron, is a technology called octio phase reforming. All
the compounds that have I have listed over there are soluble and water so we can take these solutions, and
the best example I could use is just a sugar water solution, run it across a single reactor system and we can generate
a variety of different fuels. Just recently Jim had a paper in science where it showed that
we could generate diesel from sugars. We can take these compounds and we can generate a compound
that's a mixture, I mean, gases that are a mixture of hydrogen and methane and it's got a trademark called Hythane and
there's quite a bit of interest in utilizing that in internal combustion engines. we can purify the hydrogen and use that in fuel cell
applications or we can break down the compounds and we can make lighter hydrocarbons streams such as propane and all
form LPG.

So what we're looking at this is a method of taking biomass that can be grown in a variety of different places in the
world and converting this biomass and putting it into existing distribution streams such as diesel
that has already been distributed. Hythane is now gaining notice as a fuel that can be used for transportation, LPG and then
ultimately hydrogen.

Right now at Viron Energy Systems we are currently putting together systems, that's what's shown here in
the drawing, that would generate 450 grams per hour of hydrogen. The system runs at low
temperature, 250 degrees C. It's set up so that we'll be untethered and it's gas what we're going to do in this
particular system is run and feed it into an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine is going to drive a
generator and put electrons back onto the grid. This project is, we've actually sold it to our local utility, Madison Gas and
electric. As I say, we're hoping to have this up and running before Christmas.

And this kind of gives the concept of what we are working with and it kind of shows you the efficiencies
where we could take the sugar water streams, run it through our process, generate this hythane mixture, put it to a device that can
generate power. These devices run higher temperature in our process so we can recycle back that waste
heat and utilize that far process heat. So look at this as a process that will take sugar water generate
electricity and also as you can see we generate carbon dioxide. But because the biomass was collected and
one year we released the CO2 is going to be refixated into biomass for the next year. So it's considered a CO2
neutral technology.

While now our focus right now is for stationary applications ultimately we would like to be able to go into more mobile
applications and we have looked at the possibility of combining our technology with fuel cell technology
in automobiles and one of those metrics and one of the issues right now for fuel cell driven cars is giving you enough
hydrogen on board the automobile. With our system it turns out that the sugar holds a tremendous
amount of hydrogen and we react that sugar with water to extract the hydrogen out. Such that in a standard
twenty gallon tank of 70 percent sugar in water, we would be able to generate enough hydrogen to drive an
automobile 350 possibly 400 miles. So we look at this being something in the future
when fuel cell cars become viable both from a cost point of view and a durability point of view that just maybe
a technology could be utilized and using a renewable CO2 friendly type of technology.

Lastly I just wanted to show the economics of our system. The cost of the feed section we are working with
range from anywhere from 15 cents a pound down to 3 to 5 cents a pound. And what we've done is a cost
analysis of our system where we show that we can generate hydrogen at levels around 2 dollars per kilogram
of hydrogen. Now a kilogram of hydrogen has the same about of energy as a gallon of gasoline so it gives you a sense of
what the relative cost you're paying for that energy. And we're comparing that to other ways of generating hydrogen from
renewable resources either using wind power or solar power and you can see with this low-cost biomass
feed stocks we are cost competitive with those technologies and in fact we're cost competitive with the current
technology for generating hydrogen from natural-gas. So we believe that this technology, where it's sitting right now
is a cost competitive technology as well as the inner green technology. So that's my presentation for today
and thank you very much for inviting me.