Green Island Model

In a powerful collaborative effort, One Globe Corporation and One Globe Foundation, along with severalstrategic alliances, have joined forces to engineer and develop sustainable infrastructure projects

focused on island nations and/or regions that are geographically isolated – applying the Green Island Model.

The Green Island Model (GIM) is a designed to promote next-generation, sustainable,

municipal-scale utilities. The GIM is a complementary functional approach that incorporates proven and emerging technologies to reduce fossil fuel dependency, create jobs,

close landfills, and anchor renewable energy systems.

IsolatIon Fosters InnovatIonThe industrial energy systems powering the world today are founded on an increasingly obsolete assumption of cheap and unlimited fossil fuel sources. Depleting reserves and a growing comprehension of the true costs of carbon-based energy will drive the costs of such fuels inexorably higher and promote alternative energy models.

The broad strokes of sustainable infrastructure – greater use of renewable energy, biofuels, energy storage, and a dynamic “energy internet” (aka Smart Grid) – are widely known. The development of these solutions, however, will be complicated by the institutional, technological, and political inertia of the fossil-based mainland grid.

Communities that are geopolitically isolated from these limitations, such as islands, therefore represent an ideal environment to deploy and refine next generation municipal-scale energy ecosystems.

With their higher and more easily measurable energy import and waste export/treatment costs, investments in advanced pyrolysis and anaerobic digestion technologies are faster and more easily verified.

Islands typically enjoy abundant sunlight, water, and wind resources to power distributed renewable generation technologies. These multiple networked energy sources are more fault-tolerant and recover more quickly from weather-induced blackouts.

Green Island ModelThe following functional categories describe an integrated sustainable infrastructure model containing within itself a growing number of proven and emerging technologies. While specific components should be selected on a case-by-case analysis, an understanding of the integrated whole highlights potential synergies and a guiding concept for long-term development.

GIM does not champion a particular technology, but rather promotes a model that can be applied to the varied energy resources and demands of a specific region. The systems and services approach is structured on the following complementary components:

1. Waste-to-power2. Renewable energy (including biomass)3. Biofuels production4. Energy storage and re-deployment techniques5. Smart micro-grids derived from industrial energy management systems

Islands have strong environmental stewardship requirements tied to tourism revenues, and local economies that would benefit greatly from the employment that local energy infrastructure will bring.

These and other natural advantages make islands a cost-effective laboratory for private investors and governments to develop the next generation of fossil-independent, post-industrial energy ecosystems.

Green Islands…

Funding and economic sustainabilityThe global economic challenges have generated the need to define new ways to fund emerging technology and worldwide exchange of ideas and the pursuit of next-generation profit-making opportunities. GIM provides the ideal economic environment for investors, governments and non-governmental organizations to align and profit.

Green-Collar Jobs, Carbon Credits and saleable ByproductsBeyond reducing dependence on increasingly expensive fossil fuels, Green Islands create green-collar jobs that support local economies. Depending on the available resources and conversion technologies used, Green Islands may also produce renewable hydrogen, biochar and fertilizers for export, carbon credits for sale to global markets, increased environmental tourism, and other economic benefits.

Green Island ProJeCt oBJeCtIves• Serve as an integrated design and development platform for technology vendors and educational institutions pioneering the sustainable infrastructure development to common benefit.

• Illustrate the economic, energy security and environmental benefits of sustainable energy technologies to government decision makers, educational institutions, private industry and the general public.

• Catalyze sustainable development by proving it not only technically feasible, but profitable as well.

• Demonstrate how energy-independence translates into economic-independence.

renewaBle dIstrIButed GeneratIonWind,Solar,Hydro,GeothermalandBiomassGasificationThe relative cost-per-kilowatt of renewable energy is being continually reduced by technological improvements and economies of scale. Biomass gasification and conversion technologies are likewise seeing increased adoption. One of the major limitations on more widespread use of these technologies, however, is their variable output. In traditional power grids, renewables therefore cannot supply much more than a quarter of the total energy supply without creating dangerous destabilizing effects. When coupled with energy storage technologies, however, renewables can provide a much larger portion of a Green Island’s energy needs.

waste ConversIonAdvancedPyrolysisandAnaerobicDigestionWaste-to-power technologies simultaneously mitigate the problems of overflowing landfills and fossil-fuel dependence. These technologies convert a community’s solid and green wastes into agricultural products like Biochar and a variety of fuels including biodiesel, biogasoline, syngas and hydrogen. These fuels can be used to power internal combustion vehicles, or converted to electricity via fuel cells or diesel generators.

Balancing and optimizing the various combinations of distributed renewable generation, energy storage, and loads of a Green Island requires a combination of technologies. These include energy asset management solutions adapted from industrial plants, distribution automation, and a network of high-speed energy measurement and control nodes. The Smart Micro-grid allows Green Island

operators to schedule and smooth peak demands, accommodate the varying outputs of intermittent renewables, recover from abnormal conditions and system outages, and predict and automate make-buy decisions to maximize economic effectiveness. Additionally, information on system dynamics and web-based report cards of “Energy Citizenship” can contribute to higher levels of stewardship by end users.

drInkInG waterReverseOsmosis,DesalinizationandFuelCellsFuel cells produce clean water as a byproduct of electricity production. Heat from pyrolysis can be used in flash desalinization, and any renewable power source may be used to drive reverse osmosis to produce drinking water.

enerGy storaGeCapacitorBanks,Flywheels,Hydrogen,ChemicalandGeologicalBatteriesThe intermittent nature of renewable energy sources require both real-time power conditioning and peak demand shifting energy storage technologies. These allow greater use of distributed renewables to safely and reliably supply a large percentage of a municipality’s energy needs.

BIoFuelsBioDieselandBioGasolineBiofuels produced by renewable energy, algae and waste conversion technologies can be used to fuel local vehicles, further decreasing dependence on imported fossil fuels.

sMart MICro-GrId SubstationandDistributionAutomation,EnergyAssetManagement,andPeakLoadDemandSchedulingandShifting

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a CollaboratIve allIanCe – When Global Synergies Collideone Globe Corporation (OGC) is a sustainable infrastructure company that develops replicable, scalable solutions for global sustainability. Our mission is to catalyze positive global change through economic and environmental infrastructure development while providing excellent financial returns for our investors. Through our nonprofit arm – one Globe Foundation [501(c)3 public benefit organization] – we also develop social infrastructure to transform OGC projects into vehicles for social development. Our projects power a ripple of economic, environmental, equality and entrepreneurial initiatives that ultimately help communities and countries realize long-term sustainability and prosperity.

one Globe - Green Island teamLuis Zambrana, Principal – One Globe CorporationSheri Woodsgreen, Principal – One Globe Corporation, and Founder – One Globe FoundationHoward Schacter, Principal – One Globe CorporationRichard Gunkel, Principal – One Globe Corporation

one Globe alliancesGlenn Rambach, President – Third Orbit Power Systems, Inc. – EcoSoul AssociateSkip Staats, Founder – EcoSoul

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