1. Bruce Duggan Director BullerCentre.com

2. A Brokerage? examples  Manitoba Buy & Sell  kijiji  eBay  Manitoba Hay Registry  Pellet Zone  Stick Man

3. cattails forestry residue urban forest prunings wood production residue willow straw food production residue truck rail ash silo elevator shed barn stove stoker generator A Brokerage Creates a Market loose bale cube pelletize char sourceformshipstoreconsumereturn

4. A Brokerage Creates a Market  links all participants together reduces search cost & effort  finding customers  finding suppliers  finding shippers, storers, equipment, expertise, advice, examples... reduces transaction costs  standardizes contracts & other arrangements

5. A Brokerage Creates a Market  a brokerage is essential to the development of a biomass industry

6. So Far  researched other brokerages  created offline prototype  gathered info on potential participants  put it online BiomassBrokerage.com

21. Next Steps  meet each potential producer  get fuller inventory of potential consumers businesses capable of  system design, manufacture, installation & service  storage  secure start-up funding

23. Storage? Carey, MB

24. Bruce Duggan Director BullerCentre.com

25. Bruce Duggan Director BullerCentre.com

26. Bruce Duggan Director BullerCentre.com bonus slide simplified schematic of potential effects of cattail harvesting, and their integration into a larger system of processes and effects

27. densify cattails process ash transport cubes transport ash burn cubes dry cattails grow cattails CO 2 farms gardens lawns “artificial” fertilizers fossil CO 2 compost cut cattails municipalities agri-business commercial kitchens sewage natural gas coal HEAT Phosphorus & Nitrogen lake