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“If human beings are going to pass a healthy and hospitable planet to our children and grandchildren, we need to base our civilization on new technologies and at the same time, we need to nurture a spiritual and emotional connectivity with nature. As a scientist and a writer, I endorse Bioroot Energy for its promise to convert all types of waste and non-crop biomass streams into useful, clean-energy biofuels, thereby contributing to the new sustainable social and technological paradigm that offers so much hope and promise.”
- Jon Turk, Scientist, Writer, Adventurer |
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“Imagine a world where everything you use never really disappears, it is neither created nor destroyed, it only changes form. Imagine energy from trash. Energy from non-crop biomass. Real deal, no more catch phrases, renewable energy, made from any type of carbon—whether it be your worn-out tires, your worn-down tennis shoes, or even the ‘unmentionables’ that run down your plumbing pipes.
Bioroot Energy is addressing deep concerns over energy (how do we reduce dependence on foreign oil), the economy (jobs, products, businesses), and the environment (pollution and climate change), and along the way providing we the people with a remarkable opportunity to assert control over our own actions, lives, and our future. Personal responsibility in this regard is nothing short of invigorating. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m comforted knowing I’m not the only one. Way to go Bioroot!” - David Boone, Singer Songwriter |
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“This solution is long overdue. I support Bioroot Energy in its endeavors to make our world a more sustainable, solution-oriented place for all living in the Bitterroot valley. My long-term hope is that they will set a model for Salt Lake City, and ultimately for the country and world to follow.”
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Ready to add your good name to this world-changing business effort? Leave an endorsement below or email it along with a picture to jay@biorootenergy.com
It is about time that we look at finding another solution and using our waste to generate energy is a sustainable solution that makes sense. Bioroot is on the right track by minimizing our dependence on the resources of other countries, while helping protect the environment. Thank you for helping to make our world a better place!
Bioroot’s effort to produce energy from our waste is crucial. We cannot afford the environmental destruction of burying our waste or sending it into the air, streams, and oceans. Our energy comes with an enormous environmental price tag. Combining these two critical problems to create a solution is imperative. Bioroot is stepping up to the challenge.
Bioroot’s attempt to convert waste products into energy is exactly the type of solution we need for our current global crisis. Not only would it help reduce U.S dependence on other countries for resources, it also has the potential to create jobs, healthier living conditions, and strengthen our ecosystem. With this type of forward movement we might be able to breath cleaner air than our parents did!
I am not a scientist, but this makes more sense than any alternative energy resource I have heard of. I am also from the Mississippi gulf coast, so in light of the devastating oil spill, something needs to be done. We as a country need to manage this energy crisis, or it could be the downfall of our great nation!
Bioroot Energy needs OUR help. Please, spread the word, share the website, and keep the story and momentum alive. This is too important to make half-hearted promises to change. Every change begins with one simple movement. Make yours today. If you are from Montana, contact your congressman or representative to let them know that YOU support this effort. If you are from elsewhere, no matter, as this pertains to you as well. This technology scales to every community, large or small. Send your representative or congressman a link to BIOROOT ENERGY.
This sure sounds good to me! Getting something usable from waste? Sounds like an idea long overdue. The possibility of local benefit too is awesome, and at the same time an example to the rest of the country. Go Bioroot!
As a forester interested in the use of biomass to help offset the use of fossil fuels in our energy dependent and consumption happy society, I see the use of mixed alcohol fuel additives produced by waste material, garbage, switchgrass, forest biomass (maybe even some spotted knapweed and leafy spurge) to be not only beneficial, but obvious in all regards. We’ve reached a point in our civilization where we need to get creative, and thinking in terms of the entire cycle is a requirement. The ideas and projects discussed on this informative website are crucial to a change in the public perceptions of our relationship to the environment.
Let me know how I can help.
Unfortunately science is by nature a wasteful enterprise. Daily I throw away plastic pipette tips, packaging, and used glass vials. I try to compensate by living as green a life as possible, and that includes supporting renewable resources and just plain great ideas. Oil is Dead, and we’re killing ourselves by living in a world that so desperately depends on it. Kudos to you all for doing the great things you do to make this world a more livable place.
Dare we shrink from so great a cause? Anyone who thinks that this energy source isn’t worth pursuing, is lying to themself. It would be like creating an energy equilibrium. I only wish that a few simple words posted as an endorsement could adequately convey the energy of my desire for this change.
I live on the Mississippi Coast. As the hemorrhage grew in the Gulf during the early days, I began investigating alternative fuels. I stumbled upon Bioroot Energy. This is assuredly the most practical, abundant and efficient means to replace dirty energy and remove ourselves from the stranglehold of foreign entities, that I have found. Solutions…waste reduction…check! Producing a clean-burning alternative energy…check! In the vein of keeping it simple, I can find no downside to this technology. I vote YES!
On the very FIRST EARTH Day, 1970, I read a book to my classes called “NOWHERE IS AWAY,” meaning we can’t really throw anything away. We began conserving, recycling and honoring the earth then. O that we had done a better job of spreading the consciousness then.
We obviously need to do something more. The longer we wait to put solutions to oil dependency in place, the more damage we do. It makes perfect sense to use something that we will always have—waste! This proposal appears to be feasible and sound. Why not try to implement it on a greater scale?
Tricia Faggioli
It’s about time! Finally someone’s using technology to make a fuel product that not only advances human interest in the short term, but considers long-term sustainability. In the wake of yet another petroleum related environmental catastrophe, the need for safer alternatives is evident. Creating a highly efficient fuel from trash? That’s a no brainer! We could spend billions on new technology to mitigate future oil spills and drilling mishaps, but despite the safeguards, its still a highly destructive process, from beginning to end. In the age of disposable everything we have an endless feedstock for Envirolene… all we need now is the legislative and financial backing to get the ball rolling.
This sounds like an absolutely incredible idea. Working in conjunction with cleaning out some beetle kill in our forests could be incredibly beneficial. It is long overdue. In Colorado they can’t use the wood, so the Forest Service just burns the excess lumber. This is a much more productive method, and could solve some serious problems. Incredibly inspiring.
-Brian Fauver
This seems like an idea for a very positive industry to sprout in our region. Creating power from waste sources is something that other countries have been doing for a while now, and Bioroot can be a first-of-a-kind effort right here in Montana.
Great idea. Make it happen. Clean fuel and high octane? Satisfies my inner race car driver and my environmental ethic – awesome!
The solution Bioroot is offering us is staggering in its scope and potential. In the midst of all the hue and cry about the tragic BP spill, there is this bright and shining possibility: that we can, in one technology, reduce our need for foreign- or our own- oil, reduce our post-consumer waste, our household waste, our forest and other industrial wastes, and have a clean, water-soluble, mixed alcohol fuel alternative that has a small footprint, both in production and in use.
This technology has the potential to save the world.
My hope is that people will pause in their angry clamor long enough to take heart and take hold.
Please listen to what Bioroot has to offer, be brave enough to ponder and believe that it’s not impossible and it’s not too late to save our world, and our future.
Thank you.
Excellent plan — transforming trash to treasure. Thank you for your energy.
Bioroot Energy is a look into the big picture of our future. A means of saving the planet, our only home. There presently are barges floating the oceans loaded with garbage, there are mountains of refuse stacked up in 3rd world countries, there are acres of trash that Western countries have left in foreign countries to deal with. There is a beach in beautiful Hawaii, because of it’s location and trade winds, that collects a variety of garbage. The birds and fish have been found dead there because they have swallowed plastic bags, etc. Our landfills are filling continuously. Our oceans are being used as dumping grounds.
It’s time to find alternative means of disposal. Bioroot Energy has my vote. Let’s look at this far reaching ideal of turning garbage into fuel and solve some of our recycling and oil spill pollution problems. The fuel could be made all over the country and would be a great asset during times of war. If the whole idea was taken farther, with the help of scientists and visionaries, the possibilities abound in our favor.
Jeanie Valentine
Sustainability is the name of the game, as those of us will tell you who are glancing across the horizon of the Mississippi Sound for the arrival of the BP oil eruption. Go Jay!
Finally! Someone has come up with a workable plan to not only clean up the planet a little bit but actually fuel our dependance on the ‘traps’ of the 21st century with the things that pollute her! Now, THIS is change we should endorse!
I whole-heartedly support Jay and Bioroot Energy’s solutions to helping us all get back to a balanced, sane, recycled and sustainable relationship to our planet. They offer an energy choice for conscious, respectful use of this Planet’s finite resources. Go Jay, and Thank You! May we all be listening and take action.
I implore all legislative representatives to support the efforts of entities such as Bioroot to revolutionize the production and use of clean, sustainable, energy sources. It is our ongoing collective responsibility to acknowledge the foolish fouling of the nest, and moreover, it is your individual leadership and policy positions that ultimately effect the required changes.
Randy Greer
Phoenix, Arizona
Cleaner fuel, cleaner air, cleaner planet = Our responsibility to care for our planet. This world has sustained the human race until now and it’s our responsibility to return the favor. Changing our methods of energy production, altering our minds towards future beauty and sustainability for those who follow us, everyday the beauty on this planet needs to be preserved.
I fully endorse and welcome this energetic and forward way of thinking and acting that is long overdue. We are drowning in our own swill, and by turning our wastes into clean fuel instead, it can create incomes, a life-giving environment for us and our future generations, and a most positive, sustainable way to interact with each other and our planet.
This is amazing, recycling garbage and making fuel! No destruction of natural resources in the process. Bioroot Energy can reduce dependency on foreign oil and stimulate our economy. Sounds like the solution to our current problems. Maybe our children will have a chance!
I whole-heartedly endorse Bioroot Energy and their commitment to driving change at the local level, using local resourses, with local beneficial impacts to both the Economy and Environment. There is NOTHING DIFFICULT standing in the way of this real change. All that is required is Money and Momentum. Money not only for key components of the process, but also to sustain the individuals that are driving this change, now fed only from the deep rooted belief that this can, and will, happen. Momentum..with just a little nudge, the ball will get rolling in a local sense, and it can, and will, have a huge impact to our ability to sustain the American way of life, maybe not as it currently exists, but as it can exist. Independent, in every sense of the word, with energy independence not the least among them.
Our children will see a much better world if we just take this path. In the last century we have almost destroyed our Earth. A mere 100 years (Industrial Age)…… We have to change. Otherwise, our children will not HAVE a future.
The Great Spirit is in all things. He is our Father. But the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us… It is time we show her the respect she deserves. Otherwise, she simply won’t last…
Bioroot Energy has a viable plan to reduce pollution as well as our dependence on fossil fuels. The mega tons of garbage that every metropolitan area in the country produces EVERY DAY could be not only reduced, but converted into fuel. Imagine, less garbage, less pollution, less national debt (the purchase of foreign oil)… Now, let’s actually TRY it…
This is an incredible idea whose time has come. Not only will it be a positive thing for the Bitterroot valley but the effects and possibilities will be long reaching. With the economy as it is, we need to be supporting homegrown solutions to our problems and this is one way to do it. I think we have all talked enough about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. Well, it is time to stop the talk and ACT!
Just getting rid of the trash is appealing but to turn it into an energy source is a revolutionary alternative to destroying life on earth.
We cannot keep mortgaging our descendants’ future by using up all of the petrochemicals for energy. It seems to appeal to common sense that viable alternative energy sources are in our future. Eco-friendly avenues are the highway to the future.
We have been bleeding dollars to other countries for oil for decades. Every day we throw away TONS of unwanted trash, filling landfills and oceans, slowly destroying our environment. Let’s turn it all into energy folks! 100% made in the US, from waste material collected from the US. We drive our cars, usually alone, knowing that we are polluting the air we breathe as we do so. E4 Envirolene burns clean. I’ve seen this fuel in action in my own vehicle and it really does give a big mileage and performance boost. Go Bioroot Energy!
This is a no brainer. Why would we not want to be behind this 150%? This is a solution to the problems we have created. We have the means, and now we need the funds. Just say yes for us for our children and grandchildren.
This technology is needed here and now. Any reasonably clean and efficient process which can convert waste into something useable, particularly fuel, is one worth pursuing with fervor and resolve.
Bioroot Energy has it right! Our trash is bigger than all of us could ever imagine, let’s put it to work and towards a necessary cause! Thanks!
Bioroot’s vision for taking waste and turning it into fuel is simply a solution whose time has come. No need to look past our own waste for “alternative energy” as it is right there for the taking. Their vision addresses two fundamental problems, fuel sourcing and excess waste – a classic win-win for everyone … not to mention the positive economic multiplier effect. Make it happen Bioroot Energy!
WAKE UP AMERICA! Think of what we can gain by using our garbage for fuel. And what a great way to start here in the Bitterroot. It will help us with jobs, getting rid of our garbage, and cleaning up our evironment.
this is awesome jay! your passion for an INTELLIGENT way to live is irresistible! teach, teach, teach….get out there!! you HAVE support!
katrina ruhmland
life skills teacher
artist
Sounds like a great idea and is worth putting the time and effort it to developing it into practice.
This a great thing – whose time has come! And right now we all need to be a part of the solution or we are the problem! So, send a link to the website to all your friends and create awareness and energy. Can anybody out there do bumper stickers? I would buy one and put it on my car – let us keep this thing GROWING and Happening!
I am very excited to see that this idea has so much potential for our future here on the planet. We are all worried about what will happen when our children and our children’s children grow up and what kind of planet they will have to live on. Will we wait until it is too late to do anything to save our planet? My hope is that this idea will receive the support and the forward momentum it needs to become reality.
Just think…. we could turn our trash into a true treasure if this idea receives the backing and support it needs. WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR…….
Glad to see someone pushing an idea/product that will actually work and be feasible!!! Thanks. Its a win, win, win deal. Lets get behind this NOW, before its too late for our planet and all who live on it.Send your support in any form, verbal, monetary, etc. That’s what they need to get this project up and running. Lets go people, wake up, get out of your easy chairs, put down that remote, c’mon!!!
As an employee of a very large industrial complex who regularly creates an impressive amount of waste. I have paid close attention to the ideas and discussions held throughout this and other sites. These are not just pipe dreams of an obnoxious tree hugger in cyberspace these are actual sustainable ideas for ours and our children’s future. What does your community do with your garbage? Your sewage?
Look close the solution may well be right before your eyes.
Can you believe it? Yes. These guys have found a key solution to meeting our world’s energy needs, and it is one that will change the way the world handles its waste. Talk about win win. It refreshes my hope for the world’s future to know that there are men and women who care enough to take the risks involved for the rest of us to have a chance to evolve. Go for it, and thank you.
Paul Boruff
http://www.paulboruff.com
The use of domestic waste and excess biomass from the forested areas in our Valley to make a clean burning fuel makes more sense than any proposal I have seen to date. No proponent has indicated they could actually pay a fair price for delivered woody biomass until SACA [Standard Alcohol Company of America] came along. I hope Mark and Jay are successful as this could be the answer to so many of our problems, economic and environmental as well. I offer my assistance in any way I can help. Thanks for all your perseverance.
Sonny LaSalle
There are few positive things happening in this country or in fact, the world, that are worth getting excited about. However, Bioroot Energy’s vision to make the Bitterroot valley a haven for dramatic advancements in the economy, recycling, waste management, as well as climate change and pollution reduction, have changed that trend.
Thank you for putting together a very informative meeting with Standard Alcohol Company’s Mark Radosevich and his wife Gerri. Their patented process of taking garbage such as tires, forest waste, household trash, sewage and other unwanted biomass of all types and making a marketable fuel is just short of a miracle.
Funding this new venture is critical so Montana cannot only recover from this economic downturn but also help reduce foreign oil dependency, reduce pollutants, and at the same time make money.
The website is very informative and encouraging. Please let me know how I can help.
Mark Snider
Owner, Blind Ideas
blindideas@qwest.net