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A multi-faceted clean-tech & renewable energy technology enabler

Tahiti Sustainability Summit May 22

Mario Larach

Chairman, Kai BioEnergy Corp.

Food Feedstock FuelsFuels from Food Feedstocks are not the Answer

Food commodity prices are soaring

Insufficient arable land and water to meet requirement, accelerating deforestation

Nutrient loading to water and atmosphere

Microalgae FeedstockMicroalgae is a highly efficient, environmentally sound, and potentially economic biomass fuel feedstock

Oil Yield = 50X better than Corn Ethanol

Uses underutilized land

Uses salt, brackish, or reclaimed water

Recycles CO2

Just needs Sun, Water, Nutrients, CO2

Closed Reactor Designs

Open Pond Designs

Economically ViableAlgae has been grown for decades – as feedstock for aquaculture and for health food supplements like Spirulina, Dunaliella, Chlorella, but can biofuels be economically viable?

100 Yen per capsule

($4,000 per Kg)

Needs to be < $2 per gallon

($1 per Kg)

KAI is Economically Viable

1x40x

$1.32$53.12Operating Costs ($ per gallon)

1x10x

$40.5K$405.7KCapital Costs ($ per acre)

Others Kai BioEnergy

KAI's proven, highly efficient, and fully integrated open production system has a 40X operating and 10X capital cost advantage

Waste-to-Energy SynergySynergistic Relationship with Waste-to-Energy Deployment:Waste-to-Energy CO2 emissions used to grow algae, and after lipids are extracted algae biomass fed to back to Waste-to-Energy

Not all Algae is GoodPotentially toxic Blue-Green-Algae is becoming a world-wide issue

Environmental ApplicationsA technology that can remediate blue-green-algae issues, and has many other environmental beneficial applications

New Wind TechnologiesNew technologies make deployment in Tahiti a reality: much smaller, more power, lower cost, better materials, 2-250 mph range!

Wind Community Farms with 150 Kw -800 Kw Turbines

Large Scale 1+ Mw Turbines

Old, limiting technology

Thank You

Mario Larach, [email protected]