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MASADA'S TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
Masada has invested over $45 million to develop and deploy its
waste-to-ethanol technology that has been validated by multiple qualified third-party technical, financial, government, and
environmental entities. By utilizing the fees generated
from waste disposal, Masada’s CES OxyNol process solves the economic problem that plagues cellulosic ethanol conversion
technologies. Many of the manufacturing plants that failed in the greentech energy
sector did so primarily because of their flawed economic models. Too often, they relied on feedstocks that had to be purchased
in an economic environment full of unstable and uncontrollable costs. Any sensible
energy policy would rely on many different sources of energy including the production of synthetic fuels derived from cellulose
biomass conversion. During World War II, the U.S. and Germany both effectively used synthetic fuels and by-product production.
Indeed, at the peak of their biofuels production in 1943, half of the German economy and most of its armed forces ran on biofuels,
including ethanol produced using acid hydrolysis. Masada used the German cellulosic
ethanol template to develop the CES OxyNol process. After years of collaboration and pilot testing at the Tennessee Valley
Authority’s Muscle Shoals, Alabama facility, Masada adapted, refined and modernized the German
cellulosic ethanol template to develop the CES OxyNol waste-to-ethanol process. Today, Masada has “shovel-ready”
commercial-scale plans and specifications for its fully permitted waste-to-ethanol project in Orange County, New York. The CES OxyNol technology safely and permanently manages
trace heavy metals generally present in municipal wastes. Masada’s technology and economic model can produce clean burning
fuel grade ethanol at a conversion cost as low as $0.82 per gallon.
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