Biography
Biography: Nicholas Abson
Abstract
The requirement for community power is evident. The drivers are energy costs, security, the environment and local value. In all respects, the development of local energy technology production is prescient. There are three areas to be localised; renewable and sustainable electricity production; feedstocks; modular application; and negative carbon resources. Cygnus Atratus Enterprises Limited is a technology development company providing intellectual property transfer to local and regional collaborators. The transfer and support is made to Collaborative Manufacturing Enterprises (CME’s). Cygnus Atratus makes no charges for the transfer, but remains a minority equity partner for training, guidance and safety of its’ intellectual property. The transfer includes; fuel cell, reformer, AD and Gasification, CO2 acquisition and sequestration technologies, all vertically produced. CME COLLABORATIVE MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE There are four CME’s formed and training, starting production imminently. Fair Air Ltd. (London), Scintilla CME Ltd and Mersey Fair Air Ltd. (Liverpool) and SAS Pangea (Nouvelle Aquitaine, France) all anticipate production within the next five months. Several others are in formation or planned; Cambridge, Lyon (Fr), Wolverhampton, Gloucester, Adel (Georgia USA) and London (Marine). Further CME’s are being discussed. The CME’s responsibility is to fabricate, install and service fuel cell based electricity production, mainly for sustainable local distributed energy. TUS (total utility system) facilities producing electricity, water, heat and waste remediation are the objective. The fuel cell technology is mature, with reformation of gas and modular waste to hydrogen nearing completion. All are Cygnus Atratus developments. The technology will retain community economic value through employment, tariffs and tax revenues, building negative carbon distributed services. A CME will produce and service the public, providing safe, secure and advanced negative carbon utilities for stationary requirements. Accordingly, it is proposed community based CME’s are established. CME BUSINESS SET-UP The initial requirement is for a small workshop with the ability to accommodate five personnel as a modular start-up. Three personnel should be recruited in each community for initial training in production, installation and operation of systems. The personnel will be trained by two Cygnus Atratus advisors.