OSU Talent Search

[Bill Ford]

Tomorrow will be the first day over at OSU for me looking for talent to assist the Professional Partners Project with the city of corvallis. The BEC and a couple of its affiliates want to work with the city to see if we can help them solve some of their pollution problems at the waste water treatment plant. Stan Barnes the CEO of BioAlgene is proposing an algae project and Dan Holcombe of Oregon Soil Corporation is willing to take a look at using his "red wigglers" to use the left over biomass after the lipids are extracted from the oil to make some organic worm castings. It seems that there are times when the methane, C02 and nutrients can be used in a better and more constructive fashion. There are several scientists over at OSU who are already working with algae and with the help of Mary Foley in the Tech Transfer Office, I hope at least one or two of them are willing to join our clean up efforts. Who knows, in time, we may be able to involve Coffin Butte and the landfill in the project. I will try to keep you posted.