Natural Resources committee  If I understand your question correctly, one of the problems is the cost of transportation, as I said earlier. When you compare that with emerging economies, their transportation and labour costs are low, and they don't have environmental requirements. All of this makes our proce

Natural Resources committee  I don't know what other strings are attached to that. When I first came here I used to find it very strange that it's possible to export from British Columbia and not from Thunder Bay, but now Rentech seems to have solved that problem. If they have solved that problem—they have a

Natural Resources committee  Starting from the raw material, and you said not to talk about that, but since we have that, we have been working in all of these areas. In many areas we are leading, as I mentioned repeatedly, on the nanocrystalline material, carbon fibres, and such things. As I have repeatedl

Natural Resources committee  I'd like to answer the other question about the biochemical tertiary-level product. One of the key problems with that is the cost of crude petroleum. There are many examples of products that can be made from bioresources, but they are not made economically in the correct scale.

Natural Resources committee  He's more of a chemist; I'm more of a chemical engineer. It is certainly possible to do it, in the sense that you can make these nanocellulose and cellulosic fibres into smart chemicals, or you can add some characteristics to them that will help get the product to work.

Natural Resources committee  I don't want to disappoint you, but you are not the first one to think about it. But there are two other aspects of it that come up, because the problem we have in Lake Superior is not a common problem that would exist in most other parts of the world. You have a solution to a

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. First of all, I'd like to say that, as a professor, we usually make one-hour presentations—