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Hague Corp. (OTCBB: HGUE) – Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc.
The Solterra Mission – Solar power is The Solterra Mission
Their mission is to become the leading producer of third generation photovoltaic cells (solar cells) through the use of Quantum Dots.
By introducing their thin film quantum dot solar cells, they plan to establish a disruptive technology that will help accelerate the conversion from a fossil fuel dependent energy infrastructure to one based on renewable and carbon-neutral energy sources. The products of Solterra Renewable Technologies will be part of the solution to energy independence, greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.
The Solterra Vision
At Solterra Renewable Technologies, their technology will make it possible to deliver grid-parity solar electricity. By setting the standard for solar technology with distinctly superior cost and capital efficiency, they strive to be the world’s largest solar energy technology company.
The Solterra Goal
Their goal at Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. is to uses our robust IP portfolio in third generation photovoltaic materials and solar cell processing technology to produce the lowest priced solar power available today.
Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. will produce high volume hybrid solar cells using revolutionary low cost Quantum Dot synthesis technology and a proprietary conjugated polymer technology that delivers unmatched efficiency and production economy.
Solterra’s process does NOT require costly silicon or slow, cumbersome vacuum processing or sputtering methods, thereby creating a new paradigm in the industry.
The Market
Solar power is already in an explosive growth mode, but here Solterra we are singularly positioned to lead the development of truly cost- effecicient and sustainable solar technology as the first company to introduce a new dimension of cost reduction by replacing silicon wafer based solar modules with a low cost Quantum Dot based solar cell module.
Solterra’s process does NOT require costly silicon rare earth minerals or slow, cumbersome vacuum processing or sputtering methods, thereby creating a new paradigm in the industry. Furthermore Solterra can produce its own high quality tetrapod quantum dots using a revolutionary patent pending process that results in cost savings up to 95% over the traditional quantum dot manufacturing process.
Low Cost Solar Cells
Using proprietary technology, Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. will utilize our robust IP portfolio in third generation photovoltaic materials and solar cell processing technology to produ ce the lowest priced solar power available today.
Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. will produce high volume hybrid solar cells using revolutionary low cost Quantum Dot synthesis technology and a proprietary conjugated polymer technology that can and will deliver unmatched efficiency and production economy.
Technology Breakthrough: Low Cost, High Effiency Cells
Quantum dots are “mega-molecules” of semiconducting materials that are smaller than living cells. Q.D.’s interact with light in unique ways to give off different-colored light or to create electrons and holes, due partly to their tiny size, partly to their shape and partly to the material from which they are made. Using proprietary technologies, Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. will manufacture very low cost solar cells utilizing Q.D. Technology…(less than half the price of competition). Proprietary Q.D.’s are a primary ingredient in Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc.’s solar cells. “Our work knocks down a big barrier in developing quantum dot-based photovoltaics as an alternative to the conventional, more expensive, silicon-based solar cells,” said co-author and principal investigator Michael Wong, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. Dr. Wong explained that the way towards cheaper more efficient solar cells is to manufacture them using Quantum Dots.
Quantum Dot technology is by far the most efficient method of producing solar electricity but until recently the high cost of producing Q.D.’s made their use in Solar Panels prohibitive. Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. has changed that with a new proprietary Quantum Dot production technology. This new technology reduced the cost of Q.D. production by more than 90%. This new Q.D. production technique, developed by Dr. Wong of Rice University has been acquired by Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc.
By applying this proprietary low cost production technology to the manufacture of Q.D.’s and applying it to Solar Energy Cells, the cost of solar generated electricity is reduced to little more than grid price at today’s electricity price. Grid prices are expected to increase by more than 50% over the next five years. Based on the above: in five years, solar energy using the Solterra Quantum Dot Technology will be approximately half the cost of grid pricing…
Sunny Economic Forecast
The solar energy industry, which encompasses technology, research, manufacturing, training, and installation, has a direct impact on many facets of U.S. commerce. Since the 1970s, when the solar energy market was virtually nonexistent, the business of solar energy has seen 100-fold price decreases, which has led to the production of millions of watts per year and created a national market worth about $2 billion. The current U.S. solar industry employs some 20,000 men and women in high-value, high-tech jobs, representing about 300 companies, universities, and utilities (estimates based on Directory of the U.S. Photovoltaics Industry. 1996. Washington, DC: Solar Energy Industries Association [SEIA]). And by 2020, the industry is expected to grow toward a workforce of 150,000 (“Energy Alternatives and Jobs.” 2000. Renewable Energy World, 3(6):November/December, pp. 26-32). Jobs associated with the solar energy industry are in engineering, science, management, architecture, construction, planning, education, sales, skilled labor, finance, and design.
The solar industry continues to grow steadily as costs for solar systems decline in the expanding markets for renewable energy. Since the late 1990s, the market for solar energy has grown at an annual rate of 20%. The solar industry estimates that growth rates above 25% annually are possible, resulting in a $27 billion market by 2020. With technological innovations lowering costs and increased market growth leading to new jobs and export opportunities, solar energy can become a major high-tech growth industry that contributes significantly to our economic growth and improves our trade balance.
Solterra Product Innovations
Solterra will be producing and distributing a Thin Film Quantum Dot PV Solar Cell, which is differentiated from other traditional PV cells by a unique technology that can result in lower cost, higher efficiency, and broader spectral performance.
Solterra’s Quantum Dot Solar Cell can achieve a dramatically lower manufacturing cost per watt in part, because we can manufacture our own quantum dots using a patent pending, revolutionary process that results in the production of extremely desirable, high quality tetrapod quantum dots at a cost savings in excess of 95%. To our knowledge Solterra is the only solar cell manufacture to date that does not rely on outside suppliers for its primary ingredients. Their third generation quantum dot solar cells do not require custom made, expensive ,nor complex, processing equipment, and we do not use costly silicon or rare earth elements such as indium. Solterra instead will rely on low-cost screen printing and/or inkjet techniques applied to inexpensive substrates. Quantum Dot Solar Cells have extremely high potential efficiency, having demonstrated the production of multiple excitons from a single electron. This phenomonon is the key to exponential increases in conversion efficiency. Quantum dot solar cells also have the ability to harvest light energy in the infrared and ultraviolet spectra leading to better low light collection efficiency and the potential to continue harvesting energy even when little or no visible light is present.
Solterra’s Solar cells will come to market competitively priced with the opportunity to reduce prices even further as economies of scale come into effect. Additionally they believe their quantum dot manufacturing capability and print based cell manufacturing process will enable the rapid deployment of additional manufacturing sites across the globe.
The Solterra Advantage
Solterra will be producing and distributing a Thin Film Quantum Dot PV Solar Cell which is differentiated from other PV cells by a unique technology that results in lower cost, higher efficiency, and broader spectral performance. Solterra’s Quantum Dot Solar Cell achieves a dramatically lower manufacturing cost per watt because no vacuum equipment is required, no expensive silicon is required and low-cost screen printing and/or inkjet techniques are used on inexpensive substrates. Secondly, the Solterra Thin Film Quantum Dot Solar Cell has the potential to generate multiple excitons from each proton providing the potential for exponential improvements in conversion efficiency. Third, Solterra’s PV cell is not only more efficient in the early morning and late afternoon compared to crystalline silicon PV cells, but it also has the potential to harvest light energy in the infrared and ultraviolet spectra.
Solterra’s Solar cells will be competitively priced with the potential to reduce prices even further as economies of scale come into affect. Two charts on below show the advantage in dollars and cents… and good sense!
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The Solterra Leadership
Mannagement Team
Stephen Squires – President & CEO
Stephen is the Principal Inventor and Chief Technologist for Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc., an advanced technologies innovation group. He has over 25 years experience in advanced materials and technologies. Prior to Solterra, Stephen was at McDonnell Aircraft developing and adapting advanced materials for combat aircraft applications. He was also CEO of Aviation Composite Technologies Inc., which he grew to have over 200 employees and $20 million in revenue. ACT was merged with USDR Aerospace in 2001. He has pursued his interest in advanced materials and more specifically Nano fibers and carbon Nanotubes, where he quickly recognized the potential of the unique quantum features these materials held.
David Doderer – VP
David has over 15 years of research and development experience in emerging technologies including biotechnology, nanotechnology and quantum physics. Most recently serving as principal investigator for USGN, he co-authored numerous patents/patents pending and proprietary processes, and managed Hudler Titan LLC, a technology consulting company.
Ghassen E. Jabbour, PhD – CSO
Director of Flexible and Organic Electronics Development at the Flexible Display Center (FDC) and a Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Arizona State University. Professor Jabbour is also the Technical Advisory Board Leader on Optoelectronic Materials, Devices and Encapsulation at FDC. He has been selected to the Asahi Shimbun 100 New Leaders of the USA and has received the Presidential Award for Excellence from the Hariri Foundation in 1997. Dr. Jabbour’s research experience encompasses flexible-roll-to-roll-electronics and displays, smart textile, moisture and oxygen barrier technology, transparent conductors, organic light emitting devices, organic and hybrid photovoltaics, organic memory storage, organic thin film transistors, combinatorial discovery of materials, nano and macro printed devices, micro and nanofabrication, biosensors, and quantum simulations of electronic materials. Dr. Jabbour attended Northern Arizona University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Arizona and is an SPIE fellow. Prof. Jabbour has authored and co-authored over 300 publications, invited talks, and conference proceedings. He is the editor of several books and symposia proceedings involving organic photonics and electronics, and nanotechnology. Prof. Jabbour is the guest editor of the MRS Bulletin issue on “Organic Photovoltaics”. He is the Chair and/or Co-Chair of over 50 conferences related to photonic and electronic properties of organic materials and their applications in displays and lighting, hybrid photosensitive materials, and hybrid integration of semiconducting and nanotechnology.
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Board of Directors
Dr. Michael S. Wong – Principal Investigator, Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Associate Professor in Chemistry (Joint Appointment)
Dr. Michael S. Wong joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2001, and received a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry in 2002. Before coming to Rice University, he did post-doctoral research with Dr. Galen D. Stucky of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California, Santa Barbara. Michael’s educational background includes a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Caltech, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice (“Practice School”) from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT (under the supervision of Dr. Jackie Y. Ying, “Supramolecular Templating of Mesoporous Zirconia-Based Nanocomposite Catalysts”). With the underlying theme of designing and engineering novel materials for catalytic and encapsulation applications, his research interests lie in the areas of nanostructured materials (e.g. nanoporous materials, nanoparticle-based hollow spheres, and quantum dots), heterogeneous catalysis, and bioengineering applications. He is particularly interested in developing new chemical app roaches to assembling nanoparticles into functional macrostructures.
Awards and Achievements
Smithsonian Magazine “37 Under 36″ Young Innovator Award (2007)
3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (2006, 2007)
GOLD 2006 Conference Best Presentation Award, for “best new idea in gold catalysis” (2006)
AIChE South Texas Section Best Applied Paper Award (2006)
AIChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Young Investigator Award (2006)
MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Young Innovator Award (2006)
Hershel M. Rich Invention Award (2006)
National Academy of Engineering Indo-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Invited Speaker (2006)
Smalley/Curl Innovation Award (2005)
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Symposium, Invited Participant (2004)
Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2003)
National Academy of Engineering Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering (JAFOE)
Symposium, Invited Participant (2002)
Rice Quantum Institute (RQI), Fellow (2002)
Robert P. Goldberg Grand Prize, MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition (2001)
Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Award (2000)
MIT Chemical Engineering Edward W. Merrill Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (1997)
Faculty advisor for Phi Lambda Upsilon, chemical sciences honorary society (2003 – present)
Ghassan E. Jabbour – PhD and Director of Flexible and Organic Electronics Development at the Flexible Display Center (FDC) and a Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Arizona State University
Professor Jabbour is also the Technical Advisory Board Leader on Optoelectronic Materials, Devices and Encapsulation at FDC. He has been selected to the Asahi Shimbun 100 New Leaders of the USA and has received the Presidential Award for Excellence from the Hariri Foundation in 1997. Dr. Jabbour’s research experience encompasses flexible-roll-to-roll-electronics and displays, smart textile, moisture and oxygen barrier technology, transparent conductors, organic light emitting devices, organic and hybrid photovoltaics, organic memory storage, organic thin film transistors, combinatorial discovery of materials, nano and macro printed devices, micro and nanofabrication, biosensors, and quantum simulations of electronic materials. Dr. Jabbour attended Northern Arizona University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Arizona and is an SPIE fellow. Prof. Jabbour has authored and co-authored over 300 publications, invited talks, and conference proceedings. He is the editor of several books and symposia proceedings involving organic photonics and electronics, and nanotechnology. Prof. Jabbour is the guest editor of the MRS Bulletin issue on “Organic Photovoltaics”. He is the Chair and/or Co-Chair of over 50 conferences related to photonic and electronic properties of organic materials and their applications in displays and lighting, hybrid photosensitive materials, and hybrid integration of semiconducting and nanotechnology.
Kim Pichanick – Principal KPN Advisors, LLC
Ms. Pichanick currently provides strategic global communications and investor relations’ counsel to align with overall business and financial objectives. In January 2008, Kim was appointed Outside Director, ThinOps Communications, LLC, headquartered in Houston, Texas. She is also a principal at KPN Holdings, LLC, KPN Holdings, LLC, an affiliated Company to KPN Advisors, LLC. KPN Holdings is a significant shareholder of QED Clinical, LLC, d/b/a CINA, a provider of elegant healthcare software data communications solutions. Kim is Principal and majority owner of The Hardersen Group, LLC, (“THG”) with offices in Jupiter, Florida and Dallas, Texas. THG provides strategies to protect and preserve wealth for financially mature clients. Prior to KPN Advisors, Kim was Director of Communications and Investor relations at Aleris International, Inc. where she supported Aleris’s senior management team to develop a communications function and global communications strategy that significantly contributed to Aleris’s growth from 2,100 employees to 9,100 employees and an increase in annual revenue from approximately $2 billion to approximately $9 billion from December 2004 through December 2007.
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Hague Corp. (OTCBB: HGUE)
Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc.
Stephen Squires, President and CEO
Solterra Renewable Technologies Inc.
14220 East Cavedale Road
Scottsdale, Arizona 85262
Phone: 954-384-1487
Disclosure: Pentony Enterprises LLC has been compensated $11,000 for profile coverage from a non-controlling third party. Pentony Enterprises is not a registered investment adviser or a broker/dealer. Pentony Enterprises LLC makes no recommendation that the purchase of securities of companies profiled in this web site is suitable or advisable for any person, or that an investment in such securities will be profitable. In general, given the nature of the companies profiled and the lack of an active trading market for their securities, investing in such securities is highly speculative and carries a high degree of risk.
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