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Tangled Pipelines: The Muni-Biofuel Acquisition A DiversiChem Narrative By Gerald Keep, PhD Part 2 — 6/26/2020 Chapter 8. – Finance Office – Gloria Vincenzo Archie easily found the office of the CFO, Gloria Vincenzo, which was half open. He pushed the door fully open and walked in. A largish lady sat at a huge desk … Continue reading
Tangled Pipelines: The Muni-Biofuel Acquisition A DiversiChem Narrative By Gerald Keep, PhD 4/3/2020 Disclaimers This is not an autobiography, or a minor variation on what might have been. Many of the life and work experiences of Archie Teller parallel my own only to provide an element of realism to these works, which are fiction. This … Continue reading
Green Drinks is a national organization that gets people together each month over drinks to talk about Green developments in the community. Kyle Meister runs the Tricities chapter, and he is rotating us through each town. Last month was in Johnson City. This month, I will be presenting an overview of the various Green Technology … Continue reading
Here at MOI Labs, we’re trying to find better, greener alternatives to the way things are done now. One biggie is the use of very strong herbicides, some persistant and get into your garden compost, some that kill bees and other beneficial insects. There is a recipe floating around the internet, which is mostly vinegar, … Continue reading
As a child I was told to take 3 squares of TP and fold them over parallel, so that they overlapped perfectly. This would be the right amount to get the job done, without breaking, and not waste excess. In the golden age of consumption, that worked well. Fast forward 50 years. Now, while I … Continue reading
This piece of literature was worked up for our Green Technology cleaning and floor care product line. ——– Cleaning Clues Here we talk about everything from soap bubbles to brighter whites. Just a start to get you thinking about what the different cleaners do. Soap and pH The earliest soaps were made by breaking up … Continue reading
We now have two retail outlets for our Green Technology cleaning products. Olde Towne Pharmacy here in Jonesborough, and Downtown Farming in Johnson City are now offering our products to the general public. We are still seeking alliances with retail sites in the Kingsport and Bristol areas. They are carrying: GT Mainstream multipurpose cleaner, a … Continue reading
Everybody that is trying to promote anything, be it a business or a point of view, needs to have a very short reply to the question “what do you do”? This is called an elevator speech because you have someone’s attention for about the time of the elevator ride, and if you haven’t hooked … Continue reading
Despite the sound of this, it is not out of that farcical fantasy game Munchkins(™). It is a genuine way to control pests. It sounds like putting the remains of executed criminals on display as a warning for others, but the way it works runs much, much deeper than that. I first heard of this … Continue reading
Here is the latest vision of what we are doing with MOI Labs, a spin-off of Missing Octave Insights. A worm’s eye view is that we are going to sell janitorial cleaning supplies and floor finishes, but the vision is so much more of that. We are going to be the science nerds who evaluate … Continue reading
We have space, materials, and tools here at our MOI Labs site. There are a lot of things we could do to make crafty items on a small-scale (hundred-lot) basis. We could then market them on the internet. This is similar to the idea of collecting craft items from the community and selling them, and … Continue reading
This little brochure (in draft) about our Janitorial Services and Supply business should give you an idea what we’ve decided to throw our muscle behind as a first project. The plan is to get started with a few contracts, since this is a business Terry knows. Expand our formulation and mixing capabilities, come up with … Continue reading
Here are the rules I spit out when Terry challenged me to write an educational game related to green technology entrepreneurship. In a nutshell, you try to build an industrial complex with Murphy’s Law knocking you in the shins all the way. This would need to be published as a card game, so it needs … Continue reading
The creative impulse to make things is very different from the hard-nosed mindset you need to sell them after they are done. A lot of artistic and crafty people end up selling their products the quickest way possible and for less than they are worth. The selling process itself is inefficient, one person sitting in … Continue reading
Right now most old roofing shingles go to the landfill (people sometimes even pay a dumping fees). Then, more foreign oil is consumed making new asphalt shingles to replace them. What I’m thinking about is turning shingles into road paving materials — a way to use another “free” resource to reduce our foreign oil dependence. There … Continue reading
I must recommend to you the person whose own blogging activity inspired me to take up this thread. Over the course of 2 years she has written countless articles about the simplicity movement, local food sourcing, environmentalism, gardening, and a host of practical advise. She is a truly inspiring leader and has been involved with … Continue reading
During my work on oil sources for biodiesel production, and later attending the 2013 Algae Biomass Summit in Florida, I have learned a lot about Algae. I will repost some general information from my Facebook stream at the bottom of this note for those interested. There is a lot done with algae, but current limitations … Continue reading
Okay, today our Kickstarter effort expires, so at a minimum I owe our supporters there a full-context overview of our Lignin status. Lignin is the cell walls of the wood that is left over after they extract the cellulose fibers for paper making. 350 billion pounds a year are produced, and it’s burned up into … Continue reading
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