American Video Teleconferencing Corp. (AVOT)
Rare earth metals are most simply defined as those chemical elements that have atomic numbers between 57 to 71. These include lanthanum, from which rare earth metals get their collective chemical name of lanthanides, to lutetium. For reasons of chemical similarity, two additional metals, scandium and yttrium, are commonly found in rare earth metal deposits, and so are frequently referred to as rare earth metals, resulting in a total number of 17 rare earth elements - all of which are metals.
These 15 consecutive lanthanide elements have, uniquely among all the elements in the periodic table, chemical properties so similar that they are difficult and expensive to separate from one another. However, once these metals have been separated from one another, the individual physical properties of these materials put them in today’s top tier of the rarest and in many cases the most critical of metals for technological application. These metals are used to manufacture environmentally friendly products such as electric cars and in alternative power generating technologies such as wind turbines.
American Video Teleconferencing Corp is normally known for its business and efforts of exploration in Rare Earth Elements.
American Video Teleconferencing Corp. believes that the rare earths industry is where it wants to maintain a very strong focus and is looking to expand its holdings.
According to American Video Teleconferencing Corp., it will aggressively continue to search world-wide for opportunities in Precious, Base and Rare Earths metal projects in its future strategies.
American Video Teleconferencing Corp. recently announced that Wayne Lockhart, BSc. Geology, has joined the company as special geological advisor to American Video Teleconferencing Corp for advancing the company’s exploration programs on its newly acquired rare earth property in Quebec, Canada. Mr. Lockhart has over 35 years experience in the mining business having worked for Falconbridge and Phelps Dodge in eastern Canada, Anglo American Corp. (DeBeers) in Africa and Benguet Cons. in the Philippines. Mr. Lockhart in addition to being a lecturer at the University of New Brunswick in Geology, has developed programs for the United Nations (UNDP). Mr. Lockhart is an Honorary Director of the Prospector and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), a founding and former member of the Association of Exploration Geochemists and a Member of the Society of Economic Geologists.
Cleantech Transit Inc. (CLNO)
Cleantech Transit Inc originally only aim was to develop opportunities utilizing advances in technology and manufacturing processes in order to develop significant market share in the growing clean energy public transportation sector.
The Company has expanded its focus to invest directly in specific green projects that can maximize shareholder value. Recognizing the many economic and operational advances of converting wood waste into renewable sources of energy, Cleantech has selected to invest in Phoenix Energy (www.phoenixenergy.net). This project can generate shareholder returns as well benefit the Company’s manufacturing clients worldwide.
Biomass can be used for direct heating (such as burning wood in a fireplace or wood stove), for generating electricity, or can be converted directly into liquid fuels to meet transportation energy needs.
Electricity generated from biomass is also called biopower. Biopower facilities use many different technologies; the most common is burning of wood or other biomass feed stocks to produce steam which then is used to drive turbines and produce electricity. Some generators use a mix of biomass and fossil fuels to generate electricity, while others burn methane, a product of the natural decay of organic materials. In the United States, the pulp and paper industries are major producers of biopower, using residues from paper production to produce electricity for industrial plant use.
Biomass power is close to a carbon-neutral electric power generation option - biomass absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during its growth and then emits an equal amount of carbon dioxide when it is processed to generate electricity. Thus, biomass fuels “recycle” atmospheric carbon, and may reduce global warming impacts. Biopower facilities produce fewer other pollutants than equivalent fossil fuel power facilities.
Cleantech Transit Inc. recently announced that the previously announced 500 KW biomass gasification facility located in Merced, California has successfully passed its interconnection tests and is now connected to the utility distribution grid.
The gasification technology uses a non-combustion process to convert Ag and other woody residues into a hydrogen rich gas (”syngas”), which is then converted into electricity, along with heat and biochar (a useful byproduct that captures carbon in solid form and can be used as a soil amendment).
The Phoenix Energy technology used in Merced essentially cooks the biomass in an oxygen-deprived environment to release the elemental gasses from the wood. In the process biomass is converted into a carbon rich biochar. With the carbon fixed in solid form this process not only provides a valuable soil amendment but also serves as a source of carbon sequestration.
The Merced plant is expected to produce enough electricity to power about 400 homes. The plant connected to the electricity grid under California’s feed-in-tariff with a 15-year power purchase agreement.
For more information about Cleantech Transit Inc. visit their website: www.cleantechtransitinc.com
Global Power Equipment Group Inc. (Nasdaq:GLPW) announced its unaudited financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2011. These results are available on the Company’s website at www.globalpower.com. For the three months ended March 31, 2011, the Company reported revenues of $111.6 million and net income of $0.9 million, or $0.05 per diluted common share. Revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2010 were $157.2 million and net income was $11.2 million, or $0.70 per diluted share. Services Division revenue as a percentage of consolidated revenue was 75% for the first quarter 2011, down from 78% for the same period in 2010.
Global Power Equipment Group Inc. designs, engineers, and manufactures heat recovery and auxiliary power equipment for the utility and industrial sectors.
The Ensign Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENSG) announced on May 16, 2011 that an Ensign subsidiary has acquired Symbii Home Health and Hospice, a well-regarded home health and hospice agency based in Sandy, Utah, with branch offices in the cities of Layton and Orem, Utah. The acquisition was effective as of May 15, 2011.
The Ensign Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides nursing and rehabilitative care services in California, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho.
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