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Thanks to social networks we can keep track of eachother. Former Bioking workers have now become entrepreneurs selling the same gear Bioking sold but never delivered in the past.

Manuel Vasconcelos copied the entire product line while apparently having some day job at an energy company.

Francisco Ferreira has started Enertagus, selling similar products as Bioking, but at least he realized he couldn’t use the same pictures. He did get himself recommended by two other former Bioking/Algaelink employees on Linkedin though, which earns him at least the credit of a fine colleague.

Marc De Mesel, Bioking’s former sales drone, is convicing as ever at his new investment website. Wouldn’t you trust your money to him now?

Chantal van de Ven started what seems a legit business selling potato cutters and other fun food articles at Concept Foods

More to come…

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The past few months bankruptcy trustee Mr. Platteeuw has been preparing a court case against former Bioking directors, father and son, Hans and Marco van de Ven. The Van de Ven’s are charged for illegal asset transactions prior to the bankruptcy of Bioking BV with numbers close to € 625000.

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After we succesfully sent a few biofuel entrepreneurs into pursuing new career opportunities, we now think we should take onto something bigger. Copenhagen here we go. Global warming! After looking at some surprising e-mails from Phil Jones, a leading climate scientist, we found a more humble piece of disturbing data anyone could have come up with.

CO2 atmospheric concentration

Earth outgoing heat

We know that the CO2 atmospheric distribution is not equal across the planet. And we also know that the planet cools off more at certain places more than at others.

Based on the global warming greenhouse theory, regions with higher CO2 concentrations should contain more heat than places with lower CO2 concentrations. Where less CO2 is present, the earth should radiate more heat.

Surprisingly, when we compare The CO2 atmospheric distribution map (src NASA) and the map with outgoing heat, the opposite seems to be the case.

The first map is the map of the earths CO2 atmospheric concentration. The highest concentrations of CO2 are present in the arab desert, australia and horizontally span the planet halfway the poles and the equator. Note the yellow up to the red regions as the most CO2 polluted.

Compare that to the earth’s outgoing heat map (src Nasa) and you will see that if you map the dark red regions on this map with the relevant regions on the previous map, that the earth loses the most heat at the places with the most CO2.

Any climate scientist care to comment?

You probably wondered why there wasn’t any article on biodieselfever.com recently. Well, we’re all tied up in a photobioreactor consultancy project in China. We cannot disclose it’s location and you won’t find anything on the internet, not via the chinese Google search engine and not in any chinese online newspaper. But it’s there, honestly.

Anyway, this is not about algae, it’s about another scam. Imagine yourself at work in a nice office in The Netherlands, Spain or Portugal trying to ward off the usual whining customers who paid money but never received equipment when suddenly the phone rings. “Hi it’s Kevin Lopez from Equiasiagroup in Japan. We are a leading investment broker and we would like to send you some information to review”. Uh uh ok you say and you hang up. Then you get a link to a website: General Electric (wtf). A day or so later some other bloke by the name of Anthony Scott (Kevin’s boss) calls and suggest that you buy stocks. GE is not hot anymore, Novartis (beware, pharma) is now. You have some money left from the millions you made in 2007, just before the terrible crisis, the bankruptcies, the hideaway and the escape routes became fashionable, so why not give it to this perfect stranger?

Then suddenly you see a flash and smoke, and there’s Avi, our conpsiracy specialist in his spandex superman outfit witha big warning sign that reads: “STOP”.

Why?

Well, Anthony Scott ‘is no longer’ with Equiasiagroup. He now works for Aiken & Edgefield, who are listed on the Japenex energy exchange. The only problem is that the companies, despite their shiny websites, do not exist. They are fake. Baloney. The artwork on the broker’s website is similar and the real time stocks on the Japenex site are from a free server.

Nothing wrong with funny websites and aliases, but we draw the line when people are after your money while having nothing to offer in return. Algae photobioreactor salesmen, boiler room scammers, Portugese biodiesel equipment suppliers who use pictures from a bankrupt company and so on.

So who is behind all this? Well, a guy called Alek Tan from the Phillippines. He used to support people on newsgroups, now he uses all his technology skills to steal other people’s money. You can reach Alek Tan at metnik1981@yahoo.com

Update: We’ve got a new boiler room scam: http://www.inactrading.com/- scumbags almost looking legit by hiring a virtual office in the Shanghai Kerry Centre.

Update: Several links have been taken down, but you are welcome to visit Google’s cache.

Every time you see something like “algae could” or “algae could be the solution to” you can assume that the writer has no clue what he is writing about. In the algae for fuel arena most writers use this technique to feed us the usual propaganda without jeopardizing their own position as a writer. Check this article and get back to read how the Royal Society of Chemistry has joined the algae for fuel scam train.

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