San Luis Valley RC&D
SEED Park
Status Today
6 March 2008
Nick C. Parker
Global Scientific, Inc.
Lubbock, TX
www.globalscientific.org
SEED Park Update
5 June 2015
SSED
Municipal Solid
Waste
Ag Residues
WHY
CHANGE?
WHY?
Global Population
Global Resources
Energy
Metals
Water
Recycling
Products
Examples
Old McDonald’s Farm
Sustainable
–
A SEED Park
Farmer &
Family
Cows
Pigs
Chickens
Ducks
Sheep
Manure
&
residues
Corn
Cotton
Beans
Hay
Wheat
Modern Farm or Industrial Farm
–
Non-Sustainable
Feed
Truck
Cows
Pigs
Chickens
Ducks
Sheep
Manure
Piles
Contaminates
– H2O & Air –
Greenhouse
gases
Trucks
Cropland
nutrients
City
Landfill
Stakeholders’ Meeting
Sponsored by:
Hosted by:
Conducted by:
Global Scientific, Inc.
Mission:
to build a SEED Park
a
Sustainable Environmental
and
Economic Development Park
Process:
2 years planning
Meetings w/RC&D
Formation of SEED Park Steering
Committee
Funding for Feasibility Study
USDA Grant
CO-DOE Grant
Economic Development Zone
Process:
Stakeholders’ Meeting – Summary
Report
Selection of Top Ten Potential
Businesses by Stakeholders
Top Ten Business Plans developed
Negotiations for land underway
Database established for Stakeholders
Letters sent to Stakeholders to expand
database
Stakeholders
identified
73
potential businesses
Business Plans developed by
GSI
Fish/plant production
Carbon recycling
Green building
Herbs
Potato waste (pharmaceuticals)
Wood pellets NOT FEASIBLE
Dairy goats
Feed mill
Compost
San Luis Valley SEED Park
Location? – Where?
San Luis Valley
Resource Conservation
&
Development Council
SEED Park
Ideal Location Criteria:
5,000 – 10,000 A
Large water rights
Geothermal potential
Solar potential
Utilities
Transportation corridors
Communications
Natural Resources
Enterprise zone
Tourism potential
Perceived Problems
Too
Big!
Too
CoMp
pleX!
Solution:
ONE STEP
at a time
Need –
Matching funds
Community support
Industrially Zoned Site
200-400 acres
Ag Recycling
No Pie-in-the-Sky Projects
Real projects
Simple Projects
Theop Inslee – Conner, OK
Reeve AgriEnergy – Garden City, KS
Colorado Gators – San Luis Valley
Colorado Aquaculture – Lamar, CO
E3 Biofuels – Mead, NE
“The Toyota lottery doesn’t work”
John Molinaro, Aspen Institute
If rural America is to be saved (jobs,
economy, etc.) it must save itself.
SEED Parks
Sustainable Environmental and
Economic Development Parks
Modular Production
System Components
Liquid containing water,
nitrogen, and carbon
Energy, gas or carbon
$
2nd Level Tm’t
Core
Production
Raw
Inputs
Duckweed
1st Level Tm’t
Tree Seedlings
Anaerobic
Digestion
Forestry
Compost
I. F. Pond
CAFO’s
Industry
Industry
Algae
Flowers
Plants
Plants
Gasifier/
Turbine
City
$
Value
Added
Products
Beta Carotene
Nutraceuticals
© October 2004
$
Animals
Animals
$
Vegetables
Herbs
Ash
5th Level Tm’t
Sludge
$
Insects
Worms
Fish
Treatment
Treatment
Electricity
MSW
3rd Level Tm’t
Steam
Turbine
Low
Grade
Heat
Edible
Plants
4th Level Tm’t
$
World Energy Consumption/yr
1 million years worth of fossil
deposits burned/yr
oil reserves accumulated over 500
million years
burning the fossil equivalent of
about 200 million barrels of oil/day
Sustainable Energy
Solar
Photovoltaic
Geothermal
Solar ponds
Biomass
Solar thermal
Hydrogen
Wind
Solar Power Tower
Biomass
the energy of
Stored Sunshine
Plants + Water = Biomass
Biomass =
Food
Feed
Chemicals
Energy
Biomass also includes:
Forestry industry residue
WOODCHIPS
WOODCHIPS
Energy
Methane
Hydrogen
Combustion
Syngas
Biosyndiesel
ZONE CHANGE REQUEST
Location – 7 miles East of Alamosa,
Adjacent to the Rail Road, on North side of
Rail Road.
1 mile south of Hwy 160
Adjacent to a 115-acre parcel of Property of
Alamosa County.
Size
80 Acres
Owners
Erwin Young and E.C. Cordova
Land Use
Current on 80
Acres
Tax Value
Taxes
Employees
$20,092
$462
0
PROPOSED PHASE I
Biosyndiesel Plant
Tax Value
Taxes
Proposed on 40 acres
$8,000,000
$184,000
Direct Employees
24-29
Supplier Employees
12-18
Direct Payroll/year
Supplier Payroll/year
$1,000,000
$600,000
DEHYDRATION PLANT
Tax value
Direct employees
Supplier employees
Direct payroll/year
Supplier payroll/year
PROPOSED ON 10 ACRES
$5,000,0000
35-40
5
$1,000,000
$150,000
COMBINED TOTAL
Tax value
Taxes
Employees
Payroll/year
PROPOSED ON 50 ACRES
$13,000,000
$299,500
76-87
$2,750,000
PROPOSED PHASE II
OTHER SEED PARK POTENTIAL BUSINESSES
• 8 BUSINESSES
• $26 MILLION CAPITAL
• 193 JOBS
Total for 10 businesses
• $39 MILLION CAPITAL
• 269-282 JOBS
• INDUSTRIAL ZONED LAND REQUIRED-----200-300 acres
• COMMERCIAL ZONED LAND REQUIRED---20-100 acres
• AG ZONED LAND REQUIRED------------2435-2600 acres*
• TOTAL LAND REQUIRED----------------2,655-3,000 acres*
*Agricultural land to be spread over six counties
Proposed Businesses for the seed park: Land requirements
Business Plan Title
Agricultural
Aquaculture & Hydroponics
Commercial Industrial
35
Carbon Recycling & Hydrogen Fuel
5
40
15
20
Composting
20
20
Malt Barley
20
20
Herbs
5
Total
5
Dairy Goats
90
5
5
5
100
20
20
5
2,315
40
40
10
15
5
5
5
20
25
30
160
2,625
Feed Mill
Organic Poultry Operations
2,305
5
Biosyndiesel
Food Dehydration
5
Value-added Processing
Research & Development
Total
2,435
Agricultural-rural land spread over six counties
Research & Development
Renewable Bio-Energy from America’s Waste Material
Woody Biomass and/or Green Waste Materials Operating Scenario
Woody biomass is most extensively tested feedstock
Easy to run and predictable results
Woodchips and green waste materials also extensively tested
All rebates apply provided material is all biological and not
synthetic
Minimal ash (3–4% dry input weight) make fertile soil supplement
Flexible Modular Production Set-up
Plants are designed and constructed in 75 – 250 dry tpr doules
(about 3.9 – 12 mmgpy) as shown below.
Allows for flexibility in feedstock acquisition
Allows flexibility in output profile
GFT Unit 1
Woody Biomass
GFT Unit 1
Bio-synthetic Diesel
GFT Unit 1
GFT Unit 1
Bio JetFuel
Woody Biomass
GFT Unit 1
Bio Gasoline
SEED Park Update
5 June 2015
SSED