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Terra Systems Signs Coal Technology Agreement With Ocean Power Corporation.


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LINDON, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2001

Terra Systems, Inc. (PINK SHEETS - TSYI) announced today that it has signed a technology agreement ("Technology Agreement") with Ocean Power Corporation (OTCBB OTCBB

See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
 - PWRE).

Ocean Power Corporation is a development-stage company, based in El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America
El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America.
 Hills, CA, whose business plan is to design, manufacture, and market integrated modular equipment/components which will produce both electricity for, and pure water from, its seawater seawater

Water that makes up the oceans and seas. Seawater is a complex mixture of 96.5% water, 2.5% salts, and small amounts of other substances. Much of the world's magnesium is recovered from seawater, as are large quantities of bromine.
 desalination desalination
 or desalting

Removal of dissolved salts from seawater and from the salty waters of inland seas, highly mineralized groundwaters, and municipal wastewaters.
 system. The three-year Technology Agreement requires Terra Systems to work exclusively with Ocean Power to jointly develop an integrated coal-fired system which would utilize Terra's Pneumatic Accelerator technology, in conjunction with Ocean Power's Stirling Engine Stirling engine, an external combustion reciprocating engine having an enclosed working fluid that is alternately compressed and expanded to operate a piston, thus converting heat from a variety of sources into mechanical energy.  technology. The purpose is to create a power plant which combusts coal more cleanly than currently available alternative polluting pol·lute  
tr.v. pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes
1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate.

2.
 technologies.

Commenting on the Technology Agreement, Clayton Timothy, Chairman of Terra Systems, stated: "Coal is the major fuel used to generate electricity throughout the world; but, its combustion causes pollution. Therefore, coal is the initial target market for application of our Pneumatic Accelerator technology. We believe our technology can substantially reduce several prime air pollutants pollutants

see environmental pollution.
, especially nitric oxides nitric oxide or nitrogen monoxide, a colorless gas formed by the combustion of nitrogen and oxygen as given by the reaction: energy + N2 + O2 → 2NO; m.p. −163.6°C;; b.p. −151.8°C;. , sulfur dioxide sulfur dioxide, chemical compound, SO2, a colorless gas with a pungent, suffocating odor. It is readily soluble in cold water, sparingly soluble in hot water, and soluble in alcohol, acetic acid, and sulfuric acid. , and particulate par·tic·u·late
adj.
Of or occurring in the form of fine particles.

n.
A particulate substance.



particulate

composed of separate particles.
 emissions. We are pleased to have the opportunity to work exclusively with Ocean Power to develop our technology for use in its Stirling Engines. We expect our joint development efforts to succeed and, if so, they could add a portion of the developing distributed generation Distributed generation generates electricity from many small energy sources. It has also been called also called on-site generation, dispersed generation, embedded generation, decentralized generation, decentralized energy or  (off-the-electricity grid) market to the already huge worldwide coal market in which about 5 billion tons are produced annually."

Also regarding this development, Joseph P. Maceda, President of Ocean Power, said: "We are excited about the potential for this Technology Agreement because it merges two very promising technologies: Ocean Power's advanced Stirling Engine and Terra Systems' recently patented Pneumatic Accelerator. The coal-burning technology of Terra Systems offers Ocean Power the prospects of obtaining major reductions in several coal pollutants, which could enable us to add coal to our portfolio of environmentally-acceptable fuel sources. This, in turn, could greatly broaden the market acceptance of our Stirling Engine because coal is such an abundant fuel - world proved recoverable coal reserves total about 1.1 trillion tons - and is readily available in so many regions of the world."

Terra Systems, Inc. was incorporated in Utah in 1996 and is presently a development-stage company. It is primarily engaged in the development and commercialization of its patented pneumatic accelerator. This device is a gas linear particle accelerator A linear particle accelerator (also called a LINAC) is an electrical device for the acceleration of subatomic particles. This sort of particle accelerator has many applications, from the generation of X-Rays in a hospital environment, to an injector into a higher energy , which conveys and processes bulk materials at high velocity in a particle isolated state, using air as the medium of movement. This technology operates efficiently at ambient temperatures and at low pressures and does not use water, the generally more costly traditional alternative for processing bulk materials. Virtually, all organic and inorganic bulk materials used in basic industries can be more economically separated and classified by our dry-process technology. This capability facilitates a number of associated procedures, including: drying, micropulverizing, mixing, forming, conveying, and loading. In addition, bulk materials can be beneficiated in important ways including moisture reduction, ash reduction, Btu enhancement, and electro-customization. Our system can perform multiple tasks, needs less maintenance, requires no chemical additives, and can improve the surrounding environmental quality. Opportunities are seen for many applications in an array of large industries including power generation, agriculture, mining, environment, construction, ceramics, and materials transportation. We estimate that our technology could generate economic returns to industrial users in the form of revenues and/or cost savings in the area of $2 billion within a few years, if adopted for implementation in several large projects. Terra Systems anticipates it will share in these economic returns through fees, royalties, and profit-sharing from licensing of its technology. TSYI has approximately 18 million shares currently outstanding.

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