Advancing Renewables
in the Midwest
“GRASS-FED DATA CENTER”
MoCARB ZERO™
JULY 15, 2010
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Why are we here?
“It’s hard to push a string uphill, go find a demand for
new technology.” – Missouri Business Leader
“Missouri is Saudi Arabia of Bio-Mass & Clean Burning
Sustainable Energy”
– Former Head of GSA Region VII
Demand Drives Innovation
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Grass-Fed Data Center – Creating a Nexus Between
Agriculture and Information Technology
“The successful location of data centers in Missouri have the potential
to create a new market for renewable energy in Missouri, as well as
jump-start a new market of sustainable, “green-energy” produced
by Missouri farmers and agro-foresters.
These are true “green jobs” grown from Missouri’s fertile soil;
supplying clean energy to power the burgeoning data center
industry. Energy from Missouri’s plants and timber could provide a
significant infusion of revenue into Missouri’s rural economy, create
badly needed jobs, and put Missouri on the map for renewable
energy and data centers.”
– United States Senator “Kit” Bond, a long-time advocate of Bio-mass
production in Missouri.
Data Center: Function
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A large data center uses electrical power
commensurate with an aluminum smelting
operation.
Data Centers: The New Utility
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12% - 18% Annual
Demand Growth
for next 5 years
Computing and
storage expanding
exponentially
Virtualization
and cloud
computing
driving
computing to
remote data
centers.
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FYI:
The five year
forecast for
energy predicts
data centers will
be consuming
2% to 5% of all
power produced
in the United
States– the
majority of the
nation’s
hydroelectric
capacity.
21st Century Users Prefer Green Power
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 Data Centers as an Example
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Energy-intensive
Use 2-5% of Power on the Grid
Jobs are high-tech ($100K)
 Global View –
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Cap&Trade in Europe is Real
Motivated to Incorporate Renewable
Looking for Cheap Power Rate with
Balanced Sources
 Generate Large Amounts of
Waste Heat
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Warm/Hot Water
Designed to Use Waste Heat
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21st
Century
Users
On-Site
Power
Production
Innovative
Fuel
Processing
Waste
Stream
Utilization
Diverse
Biomass
Sources
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Grass-Fed Data Center
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 MoCARB™ Program to Facilitate the Transformation
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MO Carbon–offset for Advancement and Recapture Benefits
 THREE KEY COMPONENTS
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Create Demand for Green Power
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Change the Playing Field
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Missouri-based Program to Attract Large Green Power Consumers to Missouri.
Insert New Technology to Achieve Cost Efficiencies
Build Supply Chain
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Use Missouri’s Agricultural Legacy and Strength to Power 21st Century Industry
 Local, State, and National Support has Come Quickly
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MIZZOU, MASBDA, Senator Bond, Congressman Blunt, plus many others
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Sustainability Campus
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MASBDA Award for MoCARB™ Biomass
 Sustainability View – Biomass as Energy Crop
 Work to Date – Biomass Processing Innovation
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Grant Award by MASBDA
Prototype Completed
Scale-Up Underway
Supply Side Logistics Development
 Parallel Data Center Activity Brings Immediate
Opportunity
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Very Large Data Center User has Specified Requirement of
of Green Power from Renewable Sources
Turned a Neat Idea that “needs to prove out” . . . TO
Market Driver to Build a New Ag Industry
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130 MW
Missouri Biomass Availability & Supply
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 Missouri is Well-Suited
 Biomass Diversity is Good – Regionally Plentiful in All Types
100MW of Biomass Supply within 80 Miles of Data Center Site
 Columbia (Data Center Site) is in Center of 3 Overlapping Regions
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 MoCARB™ has Vision for Developing New Harvest
 Utilizing Waste Heat from Users
 Algae, Duckweed, Others.
 CRP, WRP, Public Lands
 Challenges to Address – Need Innovation
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Consolidated Biomass Crops (by County)
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Source: MU, MDNR, USDoE
Biomass Processing & Supply Innovations
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 Diverse Biomass Sources Requires Robust Design
 Current Pellet Process is Feasible, but High Energy Inputs
 Current Process has Limitations for Biomass Sources
 Developing a New Biomass Processing Method
 Reduce Energy Input from 76%
 Improve Stability of Pellet/Puck to Allow Handling Flexibility
 Take Anything that will Burn and Make Fuel
 Must be Transportable to Allow for Larger Supply Areas
 Early Prototypes were Successful
 Use MASBDA Award to Run Full-Scale Pilots
 Plans for “Hub” Sites for Supply Development
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End Product – Current vs. New Approach
Patent Applied For
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Biomass Processing & Supply Innovations
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 Plans for “Hub” Sites for
Supply Development
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Process biomass to stable form
close to farms.
Transport to power production
facilities
Biomass
Production
on Marginal
Acres
Improved
Biomass
Pellet Process
 New Energy Crop Market for
Farmers
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Takes advantage of vast
biomass resources of Missouri
Large power users provides
“demand pull”
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Power for
Rural
Missouri &
21st Century
Users
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