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Dear CARB Staff:

    Again, thank God for this CARB webinar, as it will take copious
prayers for California, the nation, and the world to achieve the
aggressive carbon management goals needed to reverse global climate
trends of great concern. As the president of Kolodji Corp, a
leading California based energy carbon management firm, I wish to
provide further written comments to CARB on technologies needed to
further accelerate aggressive alternative 1 goals.

     First, I wish to re-emphasize the comments by many public
commenters that biogas is a significantly under utilized nature
based, renewable, and sustainable fuel. Biogas is most easily
retrofitted into existing natural gas fired infrastructure,
especially with oxy-combustion, and is the most "green" from a life
cycle basis, allowing for acceleration towards the 2035 alternative
1 goals. This technology can also be implemented in the
transportation sector. The mention by a CARB presenter that the
electric grid needs to be tripled seems light, as ZEVs, especially
those relying on electricity, will more than quadruple the electric
grid based on current energy equivalence with gasoline driven
vehicles. (It needs to be emphasized apples for apples and for
transparency in these slides CARB is presenting that the tripling
of the energy grid is very likely based on reduced vehicle miles.)

    I further emphasize utilizing crop carbon enrichment for a use
of CO2 in flue gas (a major social justice enabler in that the CO2
in flue gas is used to make food and water), I attach a recent
(September 2021) presentation by the Kolodji Corp at the
International Congress on Sustainability Science and Engineering
(ICOSSE as sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers and as co-chaired by the California Energy Commission's
Silvia Palma Rojas) emphasizing the scalability advantages of this
technology as well, as it is the only technology capable of
absorbing the world's 50 Billion Tons per year of CO2 needed to be
removed (by the way, 10% or 30 million metric tons of California's
over 300 million metric tons by 2035 is not be enough to achieve
neutrality, let alone adequate carbon management.)

Regards,

Brian Kolodji, PE

Owner/ CEO, Kolodji Corp/ Black Swan, LLC
Energy Carbon Management/ Intellectual Property

Office/Cell: (661) 742-1659/(713) 907-8742
Website: K-O2.com/ Email: bkolodji@sbcglobal.net
5612 Segovia Way, Bakersfield, CA 93306

2016/2018/2019/2020 OSHA PSM/ Gas Util Session Chair; 2021 Keynote-
American Inst. of Chemical Engineers

"...Peace be with you..."
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