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...word Ndoki (pronounced en-doe-key) means "sorcerer" in Lingala, and this is indeed an enchanted, mysterious place. Guarded by swamps to the south and east, hills to the north and the forbidding Ndoki River to the west, the region is almost inaccessible. Pygmies have crisscrossed central Africa for thousands of years, but there is no evidence that they have entered beyond the fringes of this 3 million-hectare (7.5 million-acre) expanse of virgin forest, which is about the size of Belgium...
Then, in 1988, Otisca won a Clean Coal matching grant from doe -- $7.1 million, provided that a third of the money come from the private sector. The grant was to pay for the reconfiguration of several Syracuse-area boilers to use Otisca Fuel...
When Otisca's preferred stockholders, the five companies that had invested $8 million in the company, were asked to pony up the private portion of the doe matching grant, they bailed out. GE, the largest and most influential of the five, was more interested in the locomotive business, not in fixed boilers, which were the concern of the particular Energy Department office in Pittsburgh that sponsored the Otisca application. At Norfolk Southern, the two top corporate executives who had supported Otisca had retired and their successors were focusing on near-term marketing projects. Only one of the five, Zurn Industries...
Shelor first put the CSX Greenbrier project up for Round No. 4 of the DOE Clean Coal grants, counting on one advantage Otisca had lacked: built-in private funding. But despite solid science and engineering, the project was not one of the nine applicants selected last September. DOE had chosen to husband its funds for larger programs designed to produce new power-plant technologies for beyond the year...
...electric-energy field, regulatory policies have all but stifled creativity. Utilities, says Jack Siegel, the doe's coal expert, "are not rewarded for the successful risks they take, but if they take a risk that fails, they are penalized. It's lose-lose." And yet, according to the Kessler Exchange, a small-business resource based in California, the only federal program specifically oriented toward the needs of independent inventors is the doe's Energy-Related Inventions Program, a product of the 1974 Energy Act. To be sure, energy companies take advantage of the limited governmental incentives to experiment...