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 Klean Industries is proud to sponsor The Everest Green Summit, a premier event dedicated to advancing cleantech, circular economy solutions, and global sustainability. This sponsorship underscores Klean’s commitment to pioneering waste-to-energy innovations, carbon footprint reduction strategies, and ESG-driven business practices. By supporting this summit, Klean Industries is helping to shape the future of environmental responsibility, net-zero industry solutions, and resource recovery technologies.
VANCOUVER, CANADA - When Australian native Blair Falahey (www.blair8000.com) begins a courageous journey to scale Everest (8850m) in March, his team will be equipped with key supplies from Klean Industries (“Klean”). Klean is ecstatic and pleased to support Mr. Blair Falahey in his tough challenge to summit these Himalayan giants in 2008. “It’s a real privilege to support Team 8000X 08”,” said Klean CEO Mr. Klinkhamer. Some of the funding will provide key supplies and survival equipment, which will be critical in helping the team progress through the snow of the world’s highest mountain.
Klean is looking at the viability and possibility of making equipment available for Blair to take with him that could assist in gathering air quality samples and core snow data samples for further quantification and analysis of high altitude climate change GHG emissions in scientific labs upon Blair’s return. Klean has begun establishing contact and has already started developing an internal program to help fund further research. Klean is creating a strong partnership with U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, and NOAA Research laboratories.
For the past few years, Blair has been climbing, traveling, and training for several expeditions and keeping track of several problematic environmental issues he has encountered. One of the main issues Blair faces during his journey is the acceleration of climate change and its impact on the stability of the terrain. Along the way, Blair will keep his eye open for opportunities for projects where environmentally friendly recycling and resource recovery technologies could be employed - one such idea would be to establish a small-scale plastic liquefaction system that could dispose of polyolefin plastic waste generated at base camp.
A small system could cleanly convert these plastics into environmentally friendly synthetic fuel oil, which could be used to produce heat, hot water, and/or energy required to operate emergency equipment and telecommunications.
Below is an illustration of a small-scale system that could contribute to solving such a problem. Not only would it solve a waste issue, but when the synthetic oil produced via plastic pyrolysis is combusted, it produces 60% fewer emissions than regular diesel fuel, and it can be burned directly in any diesel engine or generator with zero modifications. The system below could be containerized and flown to base camp.
 The climbing season on Everest traditionally ends on May 31, as rising temperatures make the snow soft and dangerous for climbers. Over the last 50 years since New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first reached the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, more than 3,000 climbers have scaled the peak, and over 200 people have died trying. Blair’s planned route is the southern face of Mount Everest, known locally as Sagarmatha, which soars above the clouds at the border of Nepal and Tibet. Due to the geological movement of the Indian subcontinent under Tibet, Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on earth at 29,035 feet, grows a little over an inch a year.
The expedition is expected to last about 70 days, from 23rd March 2006 and 31st May 2008. Despite the apparent danger, Blair’s first attempt at climbing an 8,000-meter summit was in 2003 at the world’s 6th tallest peak, Cho Oyu, Tibet (8,201 meters). This feat was a success and the first step toward his new challenge. Blair began his intensive training & preparation in December 2007 and will continue until he departs on his expedition. He runs 15km 4 times a week, cycles 400-500km a week, and climbs several local mountains 3 times a week with a 25kg backpack.
Recent studies around the globe have confirmed the increased concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere, and some recent results from atop Mauna Loa in Hawaii indicated a massive increase in these concentrations. In 1993, the CO2 concentrations were 357.04ppm; more recently, they were measured in 2005 at 378.98ppm. Carbon dioxide is a key ingredient in GHGs. It is a product released by human activity (including burning fossil fuels and deforestation) that scientists believe is accelerating natural climate change. In recent years, the amount of atmospheric CO2 has increased by an average of 1.5 ppm each year as more greenhouse gases are emitted, and more recently, these numbers are now exceeding 2 parts per million. These are key things to think about with our ever-growing population. Klean is pleased to sponsor this expedition as we want to contribute to the possibility of providing our complex data behind climate change, which will show people and our clients the clear facts about what’s changing in our environment.
Anyone who would like to sponsor Blair’s adventure should contact KI’s head office, where Blair can be available for a sponsorship consultation.
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