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Artemis Webinar: “The Art and Alchemy of the Exit”

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The transaction that brings a premium to investors and founders of a great technology company is one of the company’s defining moments. Achieving a premium return on an early-stage investment requires communication, precision, and financial savvy.

* What are the most decisive challenges for water tech companies in transitioning from a start-up into an industry leader?
* What is key to ensuring that an acquisition is the beginning of a new chapter of rapid growth?
* When does an IPO offer the best future for a water tech company?

On October 21 at 8AM PST, the Artemis Project will host “The Art the Exit.” This webinar kicks off the 2011 Artemis Project Top 50 Company Competition – the only competition specifically designed to evaluate the investment potential of emerging providers of Water Tech solutions.

The webinar will bring together a group of panelists that have not only negotiated this process successfully, but are able to offer their insight and wisdom to investors and company leaders.

Speakers include:

* Judson Hill, NGP Global Adaption Partners
* Bill Malarkey, Boenning & Scattergood

We’ll also hear from CEOs of Artemis Top 50 companies:

* Carlos Perea, Miox
* Joel Bleth, Solarbee
* Brent Constanz, Calera

Registration for this webinar is limited to provide participants the opportunity to engage in the post presentation discussion. Early registration reduced pricing is available through 10/18.

Registration Link: http://tiny.cc/3invl

Webinar: Mineral and Resource Recovery from Waste Water

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Around the globe, a growing number of advanced water technologies are recovering valuable minerals and resources from waste water. The O2 Environmental Technology Assessment Group (TAG) will outline the size and value of the market opportunity, drivers for change, the business models used, major players and some of the innovative technologies being developed.

The webinar will occur at July 22 at 10am PST.

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Companies providing some of the leading innovative solutions to the market will discuss overviews of their approaches.

Calera has a technology platform which can simultaneously sequester carbon, desalinate water and produce concrete. This highly dispruptive approach deals with meeting demand for the worlds most widely traded commodity, water, reduces the carbon footprint for the worlds second most widely traded commodity, concrete and also offers to the potential to sequester carbon from stack emissions.

Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies has a technology platform the Pearl™ which is used to ‘mine’ wastewater for Phosphorus, which is a non-renewable and essential resource. Ostara help municipalities and industry meet their regulatory requirements, while at the same time, producing a valuable slow release fertilizer product, Crystal Green™ which is sold to the fertilizer industry.

The CASTion Corporation is mining ammonia from wastewater with its Ammonia Recovery Process (ARP) and can recover this from municipal and industrial wastewaters and produce a raw material for sale back into the fertilizer industry, thereby generating a revenue stream.

Oberon FMR, Inc has been researching and developing the production of single cell protein (SCP) from un-utilized food processing by-product streams for over five years. Oberon’s vision is to become the premier supplier of high-quality SCP meal destined for use in animal feed diets.

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Webinar Tomorrow: Last Chance to Register

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The Artemis Project, our parent firm, is hosting a webinar tomorrow that will gather an diverse group of experts to explore the challenges, solutions and investment opportunities surrounding efficient water management in energy exploration.

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The webinar will occur tomorrow, July 16 from 11:00am EST to 12:30pm. The webinar will be divided into two sessions.

Learn more about the webinar.

Webinar: Managing Water Use in Energy Exploration

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There’s an increasing concensus that natural gas will be America’s half-way house as we kick our fossil fuel habit. The difficulties lie in managing water use while extracting the transitional fuel.

Because of the near surety of a long-term natural gas industry, technologies devoted to treating produced water form one of the few sectors where regulation and commercial interests are combining to create significant and immediate market demand for advanced water technologies, especially on-site water management systems, which will be critical to sustained hydraulic fracturing operations during shale gas extraction.

However, as of yet, there isn’t a comprehensive description of the critical, functional elements of an on-site system capable of reliably, safely treating water produced by shale gas exploration.

We do understand some of the requirements, including rugged design, reliable remote telemetry, and the capability to identify and remove salts and minerals, but we also recognize the necessity of gathering leading minds to further develop specifications that will meet the challenges inherent in shale gas drilling.

For that purpose the Artemis Project is hosting a webinar that will gather an appropriately diverse group of experts to explore the challenges, solutions and investment opportunities surrounding efficient water management in energy exploration.

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The webinar will occur on July 16 from 11:00am EST to 12:30pm. The webinar will be divided into two sessions.

Session 1: Trends and issues surrounding shale gas drilling.

  • Bob Puls, Director of Research for the EPA’s Ground Water and Ecosystems Restoration Division, will brief the audience on current research into the impact of shale gas drilling on drinking water.
  • Dr. Vikram Rao, the Director of the Research Triangle Energy Consortium and the former CTO of Halliburton, will discuss expected trends in shale gas exploration.
  • Kathleen McGinty, Operating Partner at Element Partners and the former head of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection and the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will speak on how regulation and commercial forces are driving use of new approaches in shale gas drilling.
  • Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney at the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will speak on concerns that have emerged as shale gas drilling has begun in the United States.

Session 2: Relevant advanced water technologies addressing drilling issues.

  • Precision design tools for rugged, reliable on-site water reclaim.
  • Sensors to provide accurate remote oversight in rugged environments.
  • Advanced water treatment approaches — from forward osmosis to electrolysis to remove contaminants from produced water.

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Advanced Technology Reaches the Gulf

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BP Oil Spill Covers Gulf

BP Oil Spill Covers Gulf / Image: NASA and the MODIS Rapid Response Team

Another Artemis Top 50 Company is deploying their technology to the Gulf to aid clean up of the still growing BP oil spill.

Ecosphere Technologies signed a letter-of-intent with Mid-Gulf Recovery Services, LLC to deploy Ecosphere’s Ozonix technology to clean up the “Gulf’s marshes and inland waterways,” according to Glen Smith, CEO of Mid-Gulf Recovery Services.

The Ozonix Deep Water Recovery Process, recently patent-pending, is “a non-chemical water treatment system specifically built for removing oil and chemicals from water.” It works by generating millions of “micro bubbles”, creating a “buoyancy blanket” that lifts oil rapidly to the surface of the gulf.

How Ozonix Helps in the Gulf

Ozonix increases the concentration of oil on the surface of the Gulf, simplifying oil recovery (Click to view larger)

By forcing oil to surface quickly, the oil has less time to spread as it rises. The increased concentration on the surface simplifies the process of extracting the oil from the water.

View a visual presentation of the process (pdf).

Ecosphere’s technology won the endorsement of Jean-Michel Cousteau, the famed ocean explorer and President of Ocean Futures Society: “Ecosphere has been providing its patented Ozonix technology to help major energy companies recycle their frac waters by eliminating chemical biocides. We must now use this same technology to help restore our seas and shores while protecting the habitats of the marine and wildlife of the Gulf Coast. Now is the time for action, action, action and this is technology that needs to be put to work immediately.”

Using air is obviously a more environmentally friendly solution than using potentially hazardous chemical dispersants. It’s refreshing to see modern technology finally deployed to the Gulf, however late it is in coming.

Announcing the Artemis Top 50

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The Artemis Project Water Top 50

Results for the second annual Artemis Top 50 Company competition were announced at the conclusion of the Blue Tech Innovation Forum on Tuesday.

The Top 50 were selected from a field of hundreds of companies by a panel of expert judges comprised of  engineers, utility administrators, analysts, consultants and entrepreneurs.

The judges selected winners based on four criteria: Intellectual Property, Technology, Market Potential and the company’s Team. The multifaceted judging matrices allowed judges to evaluate companies based on their investment potential as venture grade opportunities.

Among the winners were Ecosphere Technologies, Miox, Water Conservation Technology Inc, and Aqua-Pure. For the complete list, including posters submitted by each company, visit the competition gallery.