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PyroGenesis Inc T.PYR

Alternate Symbol(s):  PYRGF

PyroGenesis Inc., formerly PyroGenesis Canada Inc., is a Canada-based high-tech company. The Company is engaged in the design, development, manufacture and commercialization of advanced plasma processes and sustainable solutions which reduce greenhouse gases (GHG). The Company has created proprietary, patented and advanced plasma technologies that are used in four markets: iron ore palletization, aluminum, waste management, and additive manufacturing. It provides engineering and manufacturing expertise, contract research, as well as turnkey process equipment packages to the defense, metallurgical, mining, additive manufacturing (including 3D printing), oil and gas, and environmental industries. Its products and services include plasma atomized metal powders, aluminum and zinc dross recovery, waste management, plasma torches, and innovation/custom process development. It offers PUREVAP, which is a high purity metallurgical grade silicon and solar grade silicon from quartz.


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Comment by Casavantsghoston Nov 15, 2022 12:46am
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RE:RE:RE:RE:Why PYROGENSIS TUNNELLING will be successful!

RE:RE:RE:RE:Why PYROGENSIS TUNNELLING will be successful!Oh no Bub, you absolutely are a compensated pumper without question and your  track record suks. You should be fired.

BCONTVentures wrote: Call me whatever you want there Casavantsghost/Wheresjackbenny, I do not care.  I'm not a paid pumper at all, just a long-term shareholder.  I post relevant information about PyroGenesis, HPQ Silicon, and other companies (see my post history). 

For those that see where both PYR and HPQ are heading (even the bashers know), that in due time this will have been well worth the effort.


Long and Strong in PyroGenesis and 
HPQ Silicon!

Casavantsghost wrote: What does a paid pumper look like? Remember tunneling? Zero credibility here. Protect and govern yourself from such individuals.


BCONTVentures wrote: Here's a great post on PyroGenesis' US Tunneling division, bumping it back up.  Very informative, many thanks for this developbc!

Exciting times!

Long and Strong in PyroGenesis!

developbc wrote: Noticed few posters saying that tunneling is long way off, not viable etc...

Based on PYR CEO's most recent interview and past comments on commercialization or probabilty of success of new projects?

Paraphrasing Peter:
PYR has limited time and resources and thus stick with our firm strategy on not getting involved in any projects that don’t make commercial sense economically and that can not be scaled to commercialization...period. 

Therefore, there is NO way based on PYR's strategy would they be exclusively tied into only 1 company amongst many industry players if this not viable and or economical that could not be scaled to commercialization when everyone knows how massive the tunneling business is in USA and beyond!


So not only did PYR receive 1 pmt from a significant player in the tunneling business but a 2nd pmt as well for $1M cash. 

Here is a post I typed out last week on July 30,2020 in this regard w the strong possibility it is indeed ArcByt!


Boring Tunneling Exclusive ArcByt very strong possible!

After doing more DD and rereading news releases especially the one back in April  21, 2020..this statement really jumped out:
Under this Agreement, PyroGenesis will not only develop and supply high-powered plasma torches, specifically designed for tunneling applications, but will also be intimately involved in all aspects of design and development for the entire project. Upon success, the Client is committed to purchase exclusively, and PyroGenesis is committed to exclusively supplying, plasma torches and auxiliary equipment for these applications. The scope of work is now comprised of several phases, each being defined by the results from the former.
Strongly sounds like a new design in it's entirety...like a stealth startup like ArcByt. It is speculation at this point but sounds very very probable especially with all the recent job postings in Montreal.  
This could be massive huge for Pyrogenesis bc ArcByt aspirations are huge and they'll need a lot of torches. Regardless of who it might be..just to be in the same room w ArcByt would be insane as they want to dominate with speed/efficiency and have been working on their boring tunneling tech for years already backed by big VC $ and tunneling is going to be sensational big in USA. 
Even though I'm very excited about torches, drosite, 3D  etc...it is VERY exciting to discuss yet another division under PYR's roof...Boring Torch Division.    
Here is some basic  DD sharing on ArcByt in the meantime...but this is early speculation as many understand...BUT we do know PYR is going to go big in this space...eventually!!

PLEASE REMEMBER whoever the boring compnay is....they must be very significant to pay $1M for the exclusive right for PYR only to deal w them and NOT their competitors!! Let that sink in for a moment!

Can read more here but I highlighed few things below. 

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10584585B2/en?inventor=Troy+Anthony+Helming

LINK HERE

The present application describes a rapid burrowing robot (RBR) that can dig tunnels using ultra high temperature rotating plasma torches. In one embodiment, the RBR can be used for placement of new high voltage transmission cables 10 to 55 times faster at 20% of the cost of conventional tunneling. 

Elsewhere Arcbyt stated "Our mission is to save money, property, and lives by moving utilities underground. The company is developing a tunneling robot to efficiently and safely bore utility conduits through any geology. ArcByt’s innovative technology is 10x faster and 1/10th the cost of most conventional tunneling methods, making small-diameter utility infrastructure economically viable."

Tunneling for underground power and pipelines

Abstract
The present application describes a rapid burrowing robot (RBR) that can dig tunnels using ultra high temperature rotating plasma torches.
 

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Description
RELATED APPLICATION  

The present application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/422,539, filed on Nov. 15, 2017, and incorporates that application in its entirety.

FIELD  

The present invention relates to tunneling, and more particularly to using plasma for tunneling underground.

BACKGROUND  

America is losing in the battle to lead the Clean Power Revolution, which is the largest shift of wealth the world has ever seen. Earth's largest industry, the energy industry, is shifting inexorably from coal/oil to solar/wind—just like previous centuries that ushered in similar transitions: from wood, whale oil and horses to coal, kerosene, and oil. The transition is inevitable, but America is losing—badly. Electricity costs are rising steadily, and oil and natural gas are unpredictable and generally increasing over time. Climate change damage to the economy is rising even faster, and common sense tells us that fossil fuels exacerbate climate change

Renewable energy is now equal to or less than the cost of fossil fuel generated electricity. Electricity to fuel vehicles is cheaper than gas even if gas were less than $1.00 per gallon. Wind and solar are booming, adding tens of billions of dollars per year of newly installed projects at a 30%+ average compound annual growth rate. Studies show significant benefits to the US economy of clean power, including new jobs (wind turbine technician was the fastest growing job in the USA in 2015), efficiency gains, reduced health costs due to cleaner water and air and reduction of the rapidly increasing costs to the economy of climate change.

Wind & solar power plants now provide electricity that's cheaper than new or existing fossil fuels power plants. However, much of this potential clean, affordable resource remains unavailable to most people due to the lack of suitable transmission lines. Building the infrastructure to transmit and store this power is slow.

Existing tunnel boring machines are slow and expensive. Bertha is one of the world's largest tunnel boring machines. The speed of Bertha is about 10 m per day. It is also huge, at 17.5 m wide and nearly 100 m long, requiring assembly at each job site and then disassembly to move it to the next location, as well as needing large slurry pipes and a 2.7 km long conveyor belt to move soil out of the way by injecting water and chemicals in the broken soil until it runs into a soft paste slurry. Furthermore, such tunnel boring machines are expensive to operate. Bertha uses 18.6 MW of power and 25 people to keep it operating. The design for Bertha originated in 1825 by inventor Marc Isambard Brunel. Bertha stalled in December 2013 and required substantial repairs, delaying a tunnel project in Seattle Wash. by about 3 years.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present application describes a rapid burrowing robot (RBR) that can dig tunnels using ultra high temperature rotating plasma torches. In one embodiment, the RBR can be used for placement of new high voltage transmission cables 10 to 55 times faster at 20% of the cost of conventional tunneling. New transmission lines networked into a new Energy Superhighway—or a Super-grid—can be installed quickly by the RBR deep underground where it won't bother people, and can move cheap, clean wind energy from the Great Plains and solar power from the desert Southwest. Being able to easily bring renewable energy to our biggest cities where it's needed will increase renewable energy use, and decrease its cost. The RBR gasifies and/or melts rocks underground to create a sealed tunnel. In one embodiment, the sealed tunnel can act as an airtight tube to store compressed air, as a battery. Moving away from coal, gas and oil to cheaper, more predictable wind, solar and other clean power sources means lower energy bills for consumers and businesses, cleaner air, cleaner water, and a reduction of COinduced climate change.

The RBR uses innovative plasma and robotic technologies to tunnel quickly underground through rock and soil. The RBR primarily does this without mechanical drilling, or with reduced mechanical drilling. Using the RBR, it is possible to build subterranean tunnels which can then be lined with super high voltage transmission lines. In one embodiment, those tunnels could form a self-healing neural network of smart grid transmission lines that would be nearly impervious to vandalism, terrorist attacks or natural disasters, hardening and backing up our existing electrical and power system. In one embodiment, the tunnels could also double as batteries to store vast quantities of clean renewable energy, smoothing out availability. All this could be done without the need to spend decades to get the permits needed for dozens of new overhead transmission lines, at tunneling speeds many times faster than conventional boring drill rigs and at a fraction of the cost. Furthermore, by moving such lines underground, the potential damage and risk from adverse weather events and third-party attack is reduced.

A series of plasma torches operating at very high temperatures of up to 28,000° C. are arranged in a circular design. In one embodiment, a rotating torch element 210 includes the torches, their support structure, and a shaft. In one embodiment, the torches are non-transferable plasma torches which do not touch the material to be gasified, but rather complete the circuit between the cathode and anode of the torch, and use compressed air to provide a larger plume size. In one embodiment, the torches are transferable plasma torches which use a clamp attached to the material to be gasified. In one embodiment, the plasma torches are cooled using water or another coolant, circulating through the system.

 

 

 




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