Greetings from Tennessee, this is Randall
Moore providing a short narrative about one of our current projects. As President of BLEST, I am occasionally
called upon to pen a note to our BioLargo blog. In today’s post, I want to
accomplish two things: the first is to inform our shareholders and followers of
an important (and I hope interesting) ongoing contract. The second is, in as
compelling a fashion as I can manage, to share with our readers some information
about one area of environmental engineering science that we at BLEST practice.
First, the contract - we’re excited to
start work to plan and test to demonstrate that emissions from an Energetic
Materials Incinerator at a large US military installation on the East coast are
meeting EPA regulatory standards. This Energetic
Materials Incinerator has a unique role at the base – to safely destroy the
U.S. Military’s propellants, explosives, and munitions that have aged beyond
their shelf life. Not surprisingly, this facility has to meet numerous emission
standards including regulations that limit emissions of chemical compounds
called “dioxins” and “furans”, which are tightly regulated chemicals in nearly
every developed country.
One of these compounds, “2,3,7,8 –
tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)”, has long been considered the most
toxic of all man-made compounds, and was the chemical that caused one of the
worst environmental disasters in history when an
Italian chemical plant exploded in 1976 releasing a cloud of dioxin
containing aerosol that exposed thousands of people nearby. TCDD was also the
poison used in the attempted
assassination of Viktor Yushchenko in 2004, who was a pro-West presidential
candidate in Ukraine. Surprisingly, dioxins can also be emitted by forest fires
and other common sources in small amounts.
For this project, our engineers at BLEST are
developing protocols and test plans to confirm that the incineration system meets
all existing emissions standards for dioxins and furans. Using EPA-approved
sampling and testing methods, we will seek to confirm that the system at this
military facility emits less than 0.2 nanograms per cubic meter of exhausted
gas, or less than 0.0000000002 grams per cubic meter of stack gas. By taking
part in important projects like this, we at BLEST can proudly help ensure that
the environment is protected and public exposure to contaminants such as dioxin
is minimized.
We hope to bring you more interesting
content like this in the future. If you found this post interesting, or you
would like to learn more, don’t hesitate to engage us on social media at
BioLargo’s Twitter account @BioLargo, or at our Facebook page.
What
is a BioLargo Spotlight?
It’s
an exciting time at BioLargo. We’re moving fast, and it can be difficult to
keep our stockholders and the investing public informed of our progress. In
light of this, we will be posting a series of short articles titled “BioLargo
Spotlight”, highlighting certain business activities and other important
information in between our required SEC filings. Of course, these do not
replace our public filings, which contain more complete information than can be
delivered in this forum, and thus we urge you to carefully read and rely on
those filings for definitive information, and to review our risk factors and
caution regarding forward-looking statements. We are optimistic about our
business as we work hard to continue to grow and ultimately generate profits
for our stockholders.
Legal
Disclaimer
Our
attorneys remind us that while we believe these developments are important and
that these small victories could add up and lead to big victories, at this
stage they do not rise to the level of an official material disclosure. As the
size and magnitude of these developments become material, we will naturally
report that information in an 8-K and our regular SEC filings.
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