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ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Volcano Energy Group
The global race for High Tech gadgetry is fast becoming a universal concern. The International Association of Electronics Recyclers claims that the current worldwide electronic waste market is $7 Billion and expected to increase to $11 Billion by 2010. The same association estimates the average disposal cost for a desktop computer is approximately $1000/ton.
Strict regulations pertaining to 'end of life' issues have caused deep concern among the manufacturers of consumer products such as electronic product regarding future potential environmental liability.
Many companies are vying to become leaders in alternative energy by attaching themselves to various technologies such as wind and solar. Few have stepped up to become the leader in the WTE market. Volcano Energy has the economic and technological edge to become a leader in the global Waste to Energy market.
SkygasTM is a patented innovative technology for the gasification of carbonaceous wastes. It is an electric arc conversion process that transforms solid and semi-solid waste into clean, medium BTU synthesis gas that can be used for power generation of syn-fuel production.
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For further details and a full investment package click here.
See www.uniteltech.com
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COAL TO LIQUIDS
DME
DME Clean Energy is commercialising a first-of-its-kind technology for producing Dimethyl Ether (DME) from Australian brown coal. DME is a clean energy source with lower environmental effects than more traditional hydrocarbon fuels such as diesel and LPG.
DME Clean Energy has entered into a participation agreement with Unitel, a US corporation based in Illinois. Unitel’s main focus is on the development and commercialisation of leading products and cutting-edge process technologies. Unitel has extensive experience with DME and gasification, having previously designed a successful DME pilot facility using a different source material.
For further details and a full investment package click here.
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TECHNOLOGY
Global Lighting Solutions (GLS)
GLS holds rights via worldwide patents over intellectual property technology that enables institutions to save energy by eliminating waste via facility-wide power reduction and switching.
The micro-procession-based energy reduction and lighting management system is enclosed in an integrated standard cabinet design. The system enables facility operations to tell each lighting circuit to turn off or dim at desired times and levels while collecting information from each circuit that can be used for analysis and maintenance.
SIL has agreed with strategic partners to provide distribution, marketing and operational support to international, regional and local levels.
Companies interested in energy reduction technology please request further details and a full investment package click here.
DIESEL PURIFIER
Saudi Factory for Diesel and Gasoline Purifiers Co. Ltd. (SFDP)
SFDP is a diesel fuel saving technology, developed in the Middle East and with great potential for global applications.
SFDP is the inventor and developer of a technology suite designed to enhance the operations of both static and mobile diesel fuel engines, through a procedure that increases the efficiency of the diesel fuel circuit. The SFDP technology suite minimises harmful health and ecological impacts through maximisation of combustion of the fuel.
SFDP is currently manufacturing a range of products, branded as SFD Purifiers, designed for installation in engines ranging in size from 200HP to 1500HP.
Intellectual property protection is provided in 88 countries by a comprehensive suite of granted patents and/or registered priority applications to SFDP
A significant number of countries in the MENA and Central African Regions have already approved usage of the technology.
http://www.sfdpc.com/
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PROPERTY
Real Estate Investment Trust
The Australian market is a leader in the real estate and investment trust and securitization market worldwide. With over 85% of the market backed by securitized assets and unit trusts, Australia has significant experience in this field. As the parts of the world struggle from the fallout of imprudent lending and speculative investment, Australia is providing an example of strong practices in property investments.
REITs enable multiple investors to pool resources and invested in a larger and more diversified property portfolio than the portfolio than investors would be able to assemble individually. In addition, these unit trusts are managed by experts with experience and extensive knowledge in the related markets. Such products open the property market up to a greater source of funds seeking a profitable investment of capital.
This type of investment has yet to be fully appreciated in many parts of the world, including the Middle East, in part because these products must in some cases be tailored to meet Shariah investment guidelines. Here in Australia, REITs have a strong and established history. SIL can provide advice on how to structure and develop these products to meet market requirements while returning profit.
Islamic finance is now the fastest-growing segment of world finance. Currently, there are 300 Islamic financial institutions in more than 70 countries. At the start of 2007, assets amounted to around USD 300 billion. By 2012, Islamic project financing could represent up to 30% of all major structured deals finalised in the region.
In 2007, rapid per annum growth of the retail investor wealth pool at 45 to 50% across the GCC, due to the region’s hasty advancement towards economic development, has provided a significant market opportunity for Islamic unit trusts to open shop and flourish in the Middle East.
Currently, there comprise of no Islamic investment fund that caters to the needs of the emerging middle class of GCC investors, about 60% of which are expatriates with a substantial amount of money to invest. Despite the presence of numerous Islamic mutual funds, Sukuk funds, and the like in the regional market, most of these vehicles require the neglected niche market to deposit minimums of USD 500,000 – amounts that these clients cannot afford to put forward.
This market void represents a viable opening for the establishment of Shariah-compliant Islamic unit trusts that would provide middle class retail investors and also high net worth individuals a low cost and highly diversified alternative to what is now on hand.
The directors of SIL have a long and proven record in the establishment and structuring of REIT's for commercial, industrial, hospitality, tourism, rural infrastructure or any real estate.
For further details click here.
Kuwait Property Development
The Pearl City project is a new sea-front development by the La'ala' Al Kuwait Real Estate Company and is one of two major real estate developments planned at Al Khiran. The new city includes the development of over 70km of inland waterways as well as coastal areas and a township for 250,000 people.
Pearl City is a spectacular waterside development adjacent to the Arabian Gulf coastline, 85km south of Kuwait City. The new city is expected to take up to 25 years to complete. There are two natural tidal creeks at the site and some 50% of the 6,400 hectare land area earmarked for development is salt marshland. The objective is to create a unique and attractive waterside city that tempers this harsh environment with quality construction and sensitive landscaping.
Careful consideration was given to environmental and economic issues prior to the creation of a masterplan. Initial environmental impact assessment took into account the existing topography, prevailing winds and tides, water quality and land and marine ecology – factors which all have a major bearing on the provision of site infrastructure, road transport and utility supply. Numerous coastal and hydraulic studies have also been provided to ensure the sustainability of the plan, focusing on areas such as pollutant flushing and sediment movement.
The project has produced a number of engineering and environmental challenges, from geotechnical problems, such as how to improve ground bearing capacity, to ensuring through coastal modelling that water quality is being maintained at the completion of each phase of the masterplan. Specialist monitoring continually records the ‘health' of the waterways – information which is then fed into further technical studies.
For further information on this exceptional development see link below or click here.
http://web.suitetv.com/jim/pearl3/
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AGRICULTURE
Organic Fertiliser
Eco Fertilisers, microbial fertilisers and organic fertilisers have emerged as a new trend in modern agriculture. Indeed, there are many sound environmental and economic benefits in using these new fertilisers. For instance, applied in the right quantities, they can provide all the nutrients needed for crop growth, without leaching into groundwater systems. Organic compounds from these fertilisers can also improve soil structure, including its bulk density, organic contents and water-holding capacity. In so doing, they also protect soil quality against erosion.
The volume of chemical fertilisers used in agriculture production worldwide has increased rapidly. Farmers are applying more and more chemical fertilisers. While the use of chemical fertilisers has greatly improved agriculture productivity, helping to provide sufficient food for increasing populations and improving the nutrient usage of crops, excess amounts of fertilisers have resulted in extensive environmental pollution through soil leaching and runoff into rivers, lakes and groundwater. Overuse of chemical fertilisers has damaged soil fertility by increasing soil acidity and damaging the physical structure of the soil. Excessive amounts of chemical fertiliser have further increased chemical residues, such as nitrite, in soil and crops, which may ultimately cause human health problems.
SIL can supplya full range of organic fertiliser. See www.biogreen.info
For further information and full product range click here.
The Australian Rural Fund
The Australian Rural Fund represents a rare opportunity for a major investment in the Australian pastoral and agricultural sectors engaged in the production of food commodities.
The future direction of Australian rural industries will influence the supply chains into MENA / CIS and Asian markets.
Evolved over a period of some 200 years, and leading the world in the development and application of rural technologies, Australia’s primary industries sector ranks, along with Brazil and the USA, at the apex of countries dominant in the arena of food production.
In its successful efforts to achieve maximum productivity over a wide range of climatic conditions and soil fertility, Australia has created, for itself, a long standing and continuing world reputation for economics of scale whilst maintaining high product quality, ready adaptability to market requirements and once of the world’s most efficient exports networks.
There is growing international recognition that the nation’s rural sectors is well positioned to withstand and overcome the climatic vagaries that are devastating food production in many countries. The size and consequence demand for agricultural products is growing at a rate faster then escalations in production of such commodities.
The reality is that Australia is extremely well placed to make a major contribution towards overcoming this growing shortfall.
Australia is renowned for its free market economy, extremely stable political system, clear taxation guidelines, strong monetary policy and a well-traded and internationally accepted currency.
An outstanding opportunity exists for investors to participate in the Australian Rural Fund which has acquired a world class portfolio of agricultural interests.
For further details and a full investment package click here.
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CARBON TRADING
Carbon Trading Global
The global carbon market has generated almost as much money in the first half of 2008 as it did throughout the whole of 2007. A total of 1.8 Gt CO2e was traded globally in the first half of this year, worth some €38bn ($59bn), compared to €40bn for all of 2007. The aggregate worth of transactions in the first half of this year is already a full 94 percent of the value for all transactions in 2007. This is due to several factors, notably a higher average carbon price of €20.61 per tonne CO2e, up from €13.36 over the same period last year. Healthy EUA and secondary CER volume growth has also contributed.
Of this 1.8 Gt CO2e, a massive 1.3bn was traded within the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), representing 70 percent of total trade so far this year, compared to 61 percent over the same period last year. Trades within the EU ETS generated €30bn over the first six months of this year, up 161 percent on the first half of 2007.
Although the EU ETS dominates and is set to grow further with the inclusion of emissions from aviation from 2012, carbon trading activity has not been limited to the EU during the first six months of this year. In the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) market, some 502 Mt CO2e was traded in the first half of this year, worth €7.6bn. This is up 27 percent and 20 percent, respectively, on the first half of last year.
In addition, several new markets and market segments have been introduced, including the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the US, the trading scheme in Alberta, Canada, and the upcoming Australian federal Emissions Trading Scheme.
The figures and conclusions show that global carbon markets are growing strongly, despite a global economic downturn.
The carbon market has seen substantial growth since its modest start in 2003. Globally, the traded volume of carbon contracts has increased from 28 Mt in 2003 to 2.7 Gt in 2007, with forecasted further growth to 4.2 Gt CO2e in 2008.
Carbon Trading Global (CTG) provides trading in a range of different sectors of securities, including climate change, energy, finance and primary production.
CTG possesses knowledge and experience in the origination, accreditation and trading of carbon credits and other environmental securities, acting as a carbon deposit for selected clients.
www.carbontradingglobal.com
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MARINE TECHNOLOGY / FAST CARGO
SSFMAR94 Fund
The SSFMAR94 Fund provides lease and financing facilities for maritime projects. In and around the gulf region as a priority. The fund has identified a number of short sea, fast ferry/ cargo ship trade routes around the gulf region.
Distances are relatively short, the volumes and values of trade flows both inward and outward continues to grow which presents an ideal opportunity for the employment of a network of fast catamaran cargo services.
Over the past decade new technology has emerged which has transformed the economics of ferry services, Ro Pax ferries and short haul containers and feeder services.
The common factor in all the new designs which are emerging, including steel and aluminium monohulls and catamarans, is increasing speed with 40-50 knot design.
SSFMAR94 provides solutions to both companies seeking vessels and construction finance, and to operators needing vessel capacity.
For further details and a full investment package click here.
The Fund also provides statistical trade data to government and corporate clients, in a timely and useable means.
See www.maritrade.com.au/statistics
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