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| Just over a week after I shipped my car, it arrived in Hawaii. The pick was very easy. The security at ports is much tighter after 9-11 and Horizon allows pick ups by appointment only. It really does minimize waiting and makes pick up very easy. Above is the entrance to the port where they checked the name (by appointment only) and the office where they checked my ID. Then we inspected my car (shown here) as I wasn't permitted to report any damages after I left the port (makes sense). |
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| On Monday I also went by the library and got a library card. All I really needed was mail to show I had a local address, in this case the tool I had mailed to myself at the airport. The closest library to me is a joint school and public library (which certainly makes sense if they can sort out the different requirements), but have relatively short hours, only five days a week and only two evenings where they are open after 5PM (Monday and Tuesday open til 8PM). |
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| There had been a delay of just over a week in getting out the payroll (the first one where I would be paid) and on Tuesday, June 9, Bill, the CFO for CDI, came by to let me know that I was laid off. I had anticipated that something like that might happen (it is always high risk working for a small company which hopes to grow rapidly), but even so I was surprised, disappointed and hurt (a full complex melange of feelings). However, it was good as within a day I came to realize that it will be fun to hang out in Hawaii and then travel more if they don't ask me back, but also fun to work on the technical problems with burns if they do ask me back. So, a general nebulous feeling of concern has been replaced by a confidence that whatever happens it will be good. At the pilot plant on Tuesday afternoon they were unloading the results of a trial burn from the Saturday before, shown above and here. Above is the view of the site from the road (the bags are stock to be processed and processed stock). |
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| Here is a short video of them moving a cooled canister. I won't talk much about the process here as I signed a non-disclosure agreement and don't want release any more details about the process than has already been made public. They have a cool video on uTube which is the original I like better than the one currently on the Carbon Diversion site as the Mantria intro, additional logo in middle, and trailer don't really add anything in my opinion. Above is the control panel for the pilot site (shown in the video) and a view of the pilot processors with the left one open at the top (to allow them to take out the cannister which you saw above). Mitch led Wes (here) and I through the plant pointing out things of interest. |
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This page was last updated on July 9, 2009.
