SOURCE: Eprida
July 07, 2005 12:59 ET
R&D Firm Files Patent in 30 Countries to Mitigate Global Climate Change
ATHENS, GA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- July 7, 2005 -- Eprida, Inc. a company dedicated to exploring
innovative solutions to global challenges, announced today they have filed
international patents in the 30 largest industrial and agricultural
countries for a breakthrough technology that offers a sustainable solution
to address climate change.
ECOSS carbon sequestration technology uses a combination of
biomass -- agricultural and forest waste, as well as crops grown for energy
-- and fossil fuel to remove CO2 from the air. This process removes net
CO2 from the air and restores carbon to the topsoil. Conventional
agriculture has widely depleted carbon from the soil causing a loss of
long-term fertility. The Eprida process restores soil vitality and
establishes an integrated system for sustainable fuel and fertilizer
production from biomass. The process can be combined with coal to remove
CO2, as well as nitrogen and sulfur (NOx and SOx) emissions, from existing
coal burning power plants. It can also be used with oil and natural gas
fired plants, cement plants or steel mills to remove net CO2 from their
emissions.
The process produces high-carbon ECOSS fertilizer and carbon-negative
hydrogen from biomass. Hydrogen can be used to make transitional fuels
such as ethanol or GTL bio-diesel, and will ultimately be used in fuel
cells as the basis of the "hydrogen economy."
About Eprida
Eprida was founded in 2002 to research, develop and commercialize ECOSS, a
breakthrough technology that combines renewable energy and carbon
utilization for sustainable agriculture. The company plans to license the
technology to major industrial corporations in the energy and agricultural
sectors.