Executive Summary
Climate change is now at the forefront of the news as extreme weather is only the
leading edge of climate catastrophe that is now inevitable. We can’t stop it, but we can
delay and mitigate the worst of it.
Climate change is occurring due to our use of petroleum for energy on all fronts resulting in releases of
greenhouse gases that trap the sun’s radiant energy that otherwise reflects off the earth into space.
Contrary to knowingly false propaganda spread by the petroleum industry these gases released by that
form of energy have now accumulated in the atmosphere at such rates that the earth’s atmospheric temperature has risen to levels higher than any time in human history. These high levels of greenhouse
gas are increasing due to our negligence and ignorance, destroying the future of the biosphere and the
future of civilization.
According to the EPA, carbon dioxide makes up 81% of greenhouse gases. It comes from the combustion
of fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil. The EPA found 34% of carbon dioxide emissions come from
transportation, including highway and passenger vehicles, air travel, marine transportation, and rail. We
need to find ways to eliminate or reduce these carbon emissions in the most immediate and cost-effective
ways possible. Our solution is an immediate drop-in alternative to petroleum in the single largest source
of industrial CO2 emissions.
Globally, virtually all the work of modern society is done by diesel engines in one way or another.
The fundamental problem is that petroleum in diesel engines is not totally combusted leaving
emissions of gases and particulates anytime the engine is running. Petroleum diesel emits 22 pounds
of carbon dioxide per gallon burned in engines. We use trillions of gallons of petroleum diesel per
year For example the average truck’s annual carbon footprint is 201,834 kilograms or 223 tons of
carbon dioxide per truck.
Of these emissions, government does not measure and does not regulate emissions under 2.5 microns in
particle size. Forty percent of the emissions however are in the sub 2.5 micron range. Much of the
emissions are in the pm1 to pm.1 range. These gases and particles involve massive emissions of CO2
the leading cause of atmospheric warming and climate change. Academic Articles in the professional
literature identify these emissions to be the largest single cause of greenhouse gases and severe illness
and death, particularly for those that live close to freeways and particularly for children. Childhood
asthma, diabetes, and cancer explode within a mile of a freeway and generally in contained air mass
areas.
Solar energy can be converted for use by solar panels or chlorophyll in vegetation. Solar panels are more
efficient but are also more expensive in ultimate carbon footprint than vegetation. We convert the sun’s
energy into vegetable oil and turn that into fuel in a fully renewable, and sustainable process. The
problem with evaluations of current technologies is the failure to evaluate the entire life cycle of the
technology including the carbon cost of mining, materials production, transportation, storage and grid
transport over metal wires and support structures and the ultimate failure that no recycling is available.
As it is, the best alternative, other than ours, is solar. Very little solar is in place as a percentage of energy
sources. Electric vehicles are carbon expensive in that they are powered by the grid which is 60 to 90%
fossil fuel-based. Drivers of EVs think that they are saving the planet when in fact they are making things
worse considering the entire carbon footprint of the technology. Another problem is the shortage of
energy. We simply do not have the infrastructure to electrically charge 140 million vehicles much less
heavy-duty diesel engines. It is unlikely that we will have that level of supply for fifteen years or so.
Current problems with hydrogen, natural gas, and other alternative energy as fuel disqualifies them for
now. Fusion is a fantastic technology but it’s in its infancy and not expected to be in commercial scale
for a similar amount of time.
A critical feature of an alternative fuel is that it has to be easy to adopt using current equipment and
distribution infrastructure. NetZero diesel is the only “drop-in” fuel that needs no changes or even
adjustments in existing diesel equipment or infrastructure. It can replace trillions of gallons of
petroleum diesel and eliminate 95% of pollutants and billions of tons of greenhouse gases per day. The
production plants can be built for local use for civil and military applications anywhere in the world.
NetZero Diesel (R) use reduces carbon dioxide emissions by more than 95% compared to petroleum
diesel. Converting petroleum diesel use to NetZero Diesel could result in a huge reduction in
greenhouse gasses and pollution instantly.
The solution is NetZero Diesel, a subcategory of renewable diesel. It can be produced for less than
$4.00 a gallon with a plant that costs less than $11 million to build. The start-up and monthly feedstock
cost is approximately 3.5 million dollars and converted to fuel for a small profit. With State and
Federal subsidies, the net profit is over $5 dollars a gallon. Our market appears to be unlimited.
Federal State and private buyers are seeking all the renewable diesel that can be produced. As climate
change worsens demand for change such as this new fuel technology will skyrocket. As we develop
improved feedstocks with 10 times the energy density of existing vegetable oil feedstocks with none of
the carbon costs of existing cultivation we can lower production costs and raise profits tremendously.
Our strategic advantages include relatively smaller 1-2 million gallon per month plants that can be
located where the feedstock is cultivated and fuels used eliminating or greatly reducing the carbon cost
of transportation. We also can expand or reduce capacity in a matter of days with modular equipment
that can be easily moved to serve demand in various locations among a number of plants.
We have put together a proven technology called fatty acid methyl ester transesterification.
This method used sophisticated equipment that does not involve heat, carbon-based machinery and
doesn’t emit pollutants or produce waste.
The plants are relatively small at about 3000 square feet. The typical plant or facility processes 1 or 2
million gallons of feedstock into fuel per month. This can be expanded to ten million gallons per
month at port or intermodal locations.
NETZERO RENEWABLE DIESEL PRODUCTION PLANT
NetZero Industries Inc. has developed a highly advanced and technically superior renewable diesel production
plant.
Our Management Team in over three years of research and development has assembled a breakthrough energy
source that saves the huge installed based of diesel equipment while cutting 97% of CO2 in operation and net
zero CO2 reduction considering all elements of the chain of production including cultivation, transportation and
distribution using green systems throughout.
NetZero Diesel is superior to any other form of renewable diesel in its low cost of production, low energy cost to
produce, small footprint, drop in alternative to petroleum diesel and incomparable future as part of a replacement
for CO2 emitting petroleum.
We have a proven base technology and existing off-the-shelf equipment using a process called fatty acid methyl
ester transesterification (FAME). It is not a refinery process. It uses ultrasonic waves to fuse vegetable oil, plantbased methanol, and catalyst into fuel molecules. This method uses sophisticated equipment that does not involve
heat, or carbon-based machinery and doesn’t emit pollutants or produce waste of any kind. Instead, it uses proven
ultra-sonic acoustic equipment to convert the feedstock into fuel.
The system uses a bioreactor core used in industrial applications for many years. Connective piping, metered
pumps, monitoring, and control instrumentation operated manually or with AI systems are assembled in an
assembly plant in the free trade zone on the US-Mexico border and shipped as production modules that can be
installed at plant locations in hours on a plug-and-play basis. These production modules sized for shipment in
standard shipping containers can be sold and shipped globally.
The process of FAME transesterification uses several different types of vegetable oils which comprise 87% of the
“recipe” of ingredients or “feedstock”. In a special supply agreement the standard source of oils, mainly soy are
provided in a special arrangement with Cargill who promises an unlimited supply at favored rates. Other
feedstocks that can be used and are in ready supply are Vegetable oils including Soybean oil, Canola, Distillers
Corn Oil, Camelina, Jatropha, Palm oil, Switchgrass, Miscanthus, Energy Cane, Sweet Sorghum, Carinata, and
Duckweed.
The process of FAME transesterification uses several different types of vegetable oils which comprise 87% of the
“recipe” of ingredients or “feedstock”. In a special supply agreement the standard source of oils, mainly soy are
provided in a special arrangement with Cargill who promises an unlimited supply at favored rates. Other
feedstocks that can be used and are in ready supply are Vegetable oils including Soybean oil, Canola, Distillers
Corn Oil, Camelina, Jatropha, Palm oil, Switchgrass, Miscanthus, Energy Cane, Sweet Sorghum, Carinata, and
Duckweed.
Animal fats if obtained in large scale supply from consistent sources of supply with consistent technical
specifications can be profitably used. The feedstocks can be processed at or near the location of feedstock
production and at or near the point of use, reducing the total CI (carbon released) attributable to the transportation
of feedstock and fuel. Since these production plants are relatively small in size at around 5,000 square feet and
three acres in standard size existing standard industrial space can be used. Since the operations use sustainable
small amounts of energy in production and emit no pollutants, gases including C02 or other gases and have zero
waste or toxics permitting is easy and relatively swift. Once the location is selected and supporting tankage and
piping is in place the production modules can be moved and pulled in in a matter of days avoiding the years of
construction and often difficult permitting found in refinery construction.
The typical plant or facility processes 1 or 2 million gallons of feedstock into fuel per month. This can be
expanded to ten million gallons per month at port or intermodal locations. NetZero nonpetroleum diesel can be
used in trucking, rail, marine, and other transportation. It also can be used in new power generators announced by
the major Diesel Manufacturers, providing a new source of sustainable energy to supplement solar and wind,
particularly in low production hours.
Profits are dependent on the availability and pricing of feedstocks but generally fall around .75 per gallon at
current offtake rates and subsidy rates of 2.2 to 8 dollars per gallon pending on location and favorable subsidies
cultivation and logistics. These profits are boosted tremendously by current subsidies from state and federal
programs and carbon credit and offset sales. In order to hedge against volatility in and high prices of certain
standard oil types NetZero Industries has been working with DOE Brookhaven labs to participate in the
finalization of CRISPR genetically modified duckweed which has been created in the lab with 10 times the
energy density of Soy, the most common feedstock, and can be produced at 10% or less than the cost of soy
production which is a breakthrough in the viability of renewable diesel.
Since our fuel can be made with plant-based bioethanol containing no petroleum it is considered a premium dropin alternative to petroleum diesel for purposes of meeting legislative mandates to reduce CO2 emissions from
Diesel. It is anticipated that premium rate offtake contracts can obtained from local, state, and federal users of
diesel in addition to several interested major corporations.
The market for renewable diesel is vast. The US uses over three trillion gallons of petroleum diesel per year while
only 3 billion gallons of renewable diesel is produced annually. The supply of renewable diesel can be anticipated
to trail behind demand for many years or decades.
While most of the world’s heavy work is done with diesel engines there is no practical sustainable energy
alternative to petroleum diesel. Electrification is not seen as a practical alternative energy source. The same heavy
duty diesel engines in Trucks, trains, ships and electric generators can reduce CO2 emissions by 97% by simply
adopting this drop-in fuel alternative with no modifications.
Thirteen trillion gallons of petroleum diesel are used worldwide in the civilian sector alone.
Unlike vehicles operating on electrical energy from the grid, still 70% fossil fuel-based and inadequate for heavy
equipment, nonpetroleum diesel provides an immediate transitionary alternative turning diesel engines into
sustainable energy engines better than electric vehicles. Adding renewable-fueled power generators could create
a revolutionary immediate change toward a greener future. Even without subsidies new feedstocks make
NetZero Diesel highly profitable.
Plant equipment requires a small industrial footprint, has no emissions or toxic releases
Plant layout for our largest design is still small and will fit in thousands of existing available facilities. We will
assemble and install the entire plant or sell and deliver the plant equipment.
We have met with the staff of the Department of Transportation, Energy, USDA, and EPA and preliminary
approval of our technology and network of plants, logistics plans, and fuel distribution. These agencies and our
commercial partners want one hundred plants nationwide in the next year. This will grow to 300 in two years.
High performance - low frequency ultrasonics
• Ultrasonic liquid processing
• Full reproducibility & scalability
• Full 24h/7d capability
• Full processing volume range (mL to tons)
• Rapid Transesterification: Methyl ester content higher than % 96.5 by weight after 15 minutes in operation
How Does Sonication Promote Biodiesel Conversion?
• Improved mass transfer
• Instantaneous mixing
• Minute droplet size
• Rapid processing
Ultrasonic mixing is highly efficient and requires significantly less energy than alternative mixing technologies
Benefits from ultrasound mixing in continuous flow through mode
•better mixing results in higher yield and less raw material use
• significant saving of methanol
• significantly quicker glycerin drop-out
• catalyst usage was decreased by approximately 25-30% compared to batch operation
• Downstream biodiesel purification operations such as water wash, centrifuge and resin polishing all
performed at significantly improved levels due to better glycerin removal, less excess methanol and less excess
catalyst in the biodiesel.
• Yields of soap by-products at the water wash stage were greatly reduced as a result of better reaction conversion
With AI Monitoring, Control and Reporting Full process control allows for:
• process optimization
• reproducible/ repeatable process results
continuous biodiesel quality
FAME production plant
2000 (4000) liter per hour FAME production plant
LEADERSHIP
ZACH SIMMONS PRESIDENT
EDUCATION
San Diego State
University (SDSU),
San Diego, CA
Bachelor of Science
in Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering
2004
Cal State San Marcos University (CSUSM), San
Marcos, CA
Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma
Manufacturing2013
Cal State San Marcos University (CSUSM), San
Marcos, CA
Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma
Manufacturing2014
Lead Mechanical Engineer
2017 -Present
Principal Mechanical Engineer 2004 –
2017
Hunter Industries, San Marcos, CA
♦ Brainstorm for new products and
technologies. Investigate and create possible
business cases for brainstormed products that are
deemed to fit a potential customer need.
♦ Rapidly perform theoretical calculations,
create computer models, run computer analysis,
create prototypes, test new products, and create
patent applications.
♦ Develop testing procedures and
CEO / Contract Engineer 2010 -2021
VR&E Industries, San Diego, CA
♦ Meet with clients and create design
solutions for their mechanical or database
projects.
♦ Conduct brainstorming sessions, develop
conceptual computer models, perform all
required analysis, oversee the prototype phase,
and deliver production ready computer models.
♦ Specialize in solving structural and
pressure vessel problems.
♦ Setup or create cloud databases to allow
customers to efficiently manage large amounts
of data.
♦ Patents
US Patent #8,777,124B2
US Patent #8,602,325B2
US Patent #8,474,733B1
US Patent #8,469,288B1
US Patent #9,296,004B1
US Patent #7,044,623B2
US Patent #8,955,767B1
US Patent #9,955,768B1
US Patent #9,481,003B2
US Patent #10,322,422B2
US Patent #9,699,974B2
US Patent #9,808,813B1
US Patent #9,914,143B1
US Patent #9,296,004B1
US Patent #2013/0270361A1
US Patent #2019/0076858A1
JOEL GRIFFIN
INFORMATION SYSTEMS DIRECTOR
EDUCATION
B.A., Geography and Anthropology, University of
California Santa Barbara, 2003
SPECIALIZED TRAINING AND
CERTIFICATIONS
Geographic Information Systems Professional
GISP No. 90149
Esri Desktop Associate Certification EADA19-001
Esri Enterprise Professional Certification EAEP19-001
Esri Utility Network Certification EUNS20-001
Industry Tenure
18 years
Joel has more than 8 years of
experience in business development
and project management. He has
experience working in utility, local government, energy, and federal government industries. He
has experience in the organization, management, design, implementation, and integration of
various agencies and industries. Has been the team lead and subject matter expert for logistics,
permitting, and utility management for major energy infrastructure projects. He is a proven
communicator providing guidance and leadership for business and technical teams.
Joel currently works for HDR Inc. in Sacramento, CA where he has been given increasing
responsibilities for the past 5 years. His current clients include the Defense Logistics Agency
(DLA) which he manages several energy-specific projects for three separate major subordinate
commands. He manages a cross-functional team with focus on delivering quality and consistency
for engineering, design, planning, and logistics projects. Having been a project manager and
business development lead in the AEC industry Joel knows how to balance client needs and costs
and has now an extensive network of engineers, designers, and industry leaders to help find the
most efficient solution for complex needs.
His project work includes the planning, design, build, and elements needed for large infrastructure
projects. Before working for HDR Inc. he was a planning and design lead for Semra Energy and
helped in the construction of the Cameron LNG Terminal, LA Storage Pipeline, Copper Mountain
Solar, and ECA Wind facilities. Beyond the management and planning aspects of the project, he
also contributed to the complex permitting and reporting to local and federal agencies (FERC).
He also worked with the US Department of Transportation (DOT), and Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).
PAUL DENNI
Paul Denni is an attorney with seventeen years experience dealing with a wide range of matters in litigation and business matters. With extensive experience in dealing with, negotiating and managing relationships with local public entities, he is the point person in managing local attorneys and staff in maintaining regulatory and political relationships with the local entities that are critical to continuous successful operations. He is also responsible for relationships and nongovernmental entities in providing support and charitable programs in each locality.
SCOTT LONDON FINANCE
Scott London is a dynamic and solutions-driven sales and marketing executive with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in Finance and Economics from James Madison University, Harrisonburg,VA. With a high-energy approach and sharp business acumen, Scott thrives in highpressure and fast-paced environments. His expertise lies in client relations, strategic alliances, contract negotiation, and E-commerce site management. Scott’s impressive career highlights include his role as Director of Business Development at QK Healthcare, a multibillion-dollar privately held company based in Bellport, NY. In this strategic position, he significantly expanded market penetration and improved bottom-line profitability in the wholesale pharmaceutical distribution sector. Additionally, Scott’s earlier experience as an Option Principal Member at the American Stock Exchange, New York, NY, reflects his ability to quickly assess situations and make on-the-spot decisions in a fast-paced trading environment. His outstanding track record includes successfully generating leads, building lasting client relationships, and transforming underperforming territories into profitable centers through comprehensive marketing strategies. Scott’s exceptional leadership skills and strategic vision make him a valuable asset in driving business growth and achieving remarkable success in the industry he serves .
Scott is a committed family man ,been married for almost 40 years ,has one daughter and one grandson.
DAVID GRIFFIN CEO
David Griffin was engaged as a business, product defect and environmental
trial lawyer for over forty years in cases involving pollution, hydrology,
hydrogeology, fate and transport of chemicals, properties of toxic materials,
and a range of other technical solutions to environmental problems. He
also has experience in highly technical issues of the strength of materials,
testing, and engineering. He litigated product defect and environmental
matters across the United States and appeared before the United States
Supreme Court. His legal career involved a concentration in highly
technical cases and the resolution of business disputes helping him identify
technical and business problems before they develop or solve them without
litigation.
Litigation experience included over two hundred major trials including many multi-million dollar jury
trials involving a wide range of technologies lasting several months. This work has taken him to several
European Countries and Japan.
Prior experience includes leading and managing teams of professionals in size in excess of fifty members.
As lead designer and manager of information systems and databases he is current in all forms of electronic
management systems.
As a father of four and grandfather of six, he became concerned about the gradual deterioration of the
environment, including climate change, air pollution and toxic exposures affecting their futures. Intense
study of these issues and involvement in the advancement of new technologies for clients pulled him
into developing new solutions to these problems based on the resolve that significant
improvements and application of new technologies would be the only meaningful way to see real progress.
California State University Bachelor of Arts, Minor in Physics
Juris Doctor Loyola University 1977
State Bar Membership 1977-2020
Member American BioEconomy Leadership Council