Dominican government officers traveled to Florida last week to see a laboratory demonstration of the Toups Technology Licensing Inc.’s AquaFuel production process, and view a prototype of an AquaFuel plant being constructed by Dixie Arc. A press release from the company states that the group was scheduled to meet at TTL’s 50,000 sq. ft. research facility in Largo, Florida. The government officers traveled to Florida to discuss the development of the first AquaFuel commercial production facility destined for the DR and the potential benefit of AquaFuel to the country’s economy and environment. Representatives from the Dominican government that visited 3-5 February included: Eng. Ernesto Reyna, environmental adviser to the President; Eng. Radham?s Lora, generaldirector of Forestry; and Bolivar Rodriguez, director of industrialization. The group was slated to be joined by officers and directors of AquaFuel-Dominicana (AFD), an estimated $1.44 billion jointventure between TTL and a consortium of private electric utilities in the DR. These include John Rivera, president of AFD, and Isaias Arbaje, vice-president of AFD and former sub-secretary of agriculture for the DR."Successful introduction of AquaFuel to the Dominican Republic will have significant implications,” Rivera states on the newswire."The DR suffers from an annual shortfall of 500-600 megawatts of electrical energy and every year the government subsidizes propane use in the amount of US$380 million. Widespread use of AquaFuel presents a potential solution for the DR.”TTL commercializes late-stage technologies primarily in the energy environment and natural resource market segments. The company’s technologies include AquaFuel, an alternative fuel derived from electric carbon arcs in water, that produces no harmful emissions; Balanced Oil Recovery Lift device which increase marginal oil field production; Multi-Purpose Generators which provide electric power co-generation that automatically parallels with the local utility power grid; Electromagnetic Tire Recycling that converts scrap tires into marketable products without emissions. TTL’s two wholly-owned subsidiaries include Advanced Micro Welding/Metal Fabrication and BrounleyEngineering & Associates which provides radio frequency power generators for lasers, plasma etching and other applications. For further information, visit the company’s web site at http//:www.toupstech.com Despite the size of the proposed fuel plant, this story has not yet been covered by the main dailies of Santo Domingo.
