Gemini Synergy Center

Aiming to benefit communities, our planet, and overall prosperity, the Gemini Synergy Center combines innovative technologies to use resources to the fullest.

What the Gemini Synergy Center Can Do For You

We welcome you to learn more about the Gemini Synergy Center, and help you start one in your own community!

Team Gemini LLC has designed and developed a renewable energy and agricultural cluster based on individually-proven components from their respective industries. This cluster of technologies combines the economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy, recycling, waste stream processing, as well as sustainable agricultural production, and rounds it off by supporting continued education and business development.

Team Gemini actively seeks out opportunities with a variety of prospective clients—including municipalities, public and private entities, industry complexes, educational institutions, and government constituents. Our goal is to implement variations of the company’s Renewable Energy Cluster and catalyze progress and integration into the Green Economy model that will ensure future generations can be profitable without creating a burden in the management of natural resources.

Sustainable Agriculture

Features Overview

Aquaculture & Hydroponics
Aquaponics
Energy-Efficient Greenhouses
Maximized Production Year-Round
Food & Food Waste Processing

About GSC’s Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Agricultural Technology focuses principally on advanced and highly automated Greenhouses that integrate a combination of Hydroponic (the cultivation of plants in a nutrient liquid with or without gravel or another supporting medium), Aquaculture (the farming of ocean and freshwater plants and animals for human consumption), and Aquaponic (a sustainable food production system that combines conventional aquaculture with hydroponics in a symbiotic environment) setups.

Potential products of these technologies include varied options of plants, fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, herbs and medicinal plants. Cutting-edge processing equipment supports even greater variety in on-site output (like smoked fish or mixed salads), as well as logistics handling. Products may be used as revenue sources or local food supplies. Food waste byproducts can also be used for additional processing in the GSC Bio Refinery, and help create energy, fertilizer, compost, or other resources.

Sustainable Agriculture Impact

Large-scale, resource-intensive food production is one of the main methods of providing food for communities. With a growing population and at-risk resources, this approach is unsustainable. The GSC adds an environmentally-conscious and closely-monitored infrastructure to remove pests, polluted growing conditions, and strains on animals found in common “farming operations.” With a standard-sized GSC facility output offering thousands of tons of fish per year, to millions of units of leaf-lettuce plants, herbs, and other hydroponic goods, the demand and supply of communities and industry clients can be met responsibly and economically.

Meanwhile, renewable energy provides reduced operating costs and conservation of precious resources like water. A closed-loop system is also created in which any discarded food waste is used in the GSC Bio Refinery to provide electricity, heat, and other resources.

Bio Refinery

Features Overview

Biogas & Bio Diesel Production
Biomass Processing
Cellulosic Fiber Processing
Bio Ethanol Production
Separation Processing

About GSC’s Bio Refinery

The Bio Refinery of the Renewable Energy Cluster combines technologies such as Combined Heat and Power Units, a Bio Ethanol Plant, Biogas/Biomass Plant, and others. The main focus of these facilities is to create byproducts from waste to provide valuable energy and other resources.

Examples of such resources include: heat and power; ammonia, compost, and concentrated fertilizer; syngas and synthetic crude oil; chemical sugars; animal feed, gluten, and carbonate; bio ethanol; methanol and bio-diesel; as well as gas-liquification (as a fuel product). Resources produced by the Bio Refinery contribute to renewable cluster operations (heat and power, or feedstock for other facilities) and reduced O & M costs, and provide revenue streams to project owners.

Bio Refinery Impact

With the Bio Refinery, Team Gemini takes a waste stream (also known as feedstock), removes the recyclables, and then converts the balance into a series of resources, products, and power. This process creates an excess of clean power, clean heat, and cooling that can be used to generate even more products and services at a very low cost. The end result is a system that starts with trash and ends up creating a real synergistic loop of renewable energy and valuable resources.

With the excess resources created, one can feed other projects such as advanced, climate-controlled greenhouses growing organic vegetables and fish at greatly diminished cost. The key is maximizing the resources in the waste stream, in an eco-friendly manner, including capturing the exhausts for their resources, too.

Utilities Management

Features Overview

99.999% Power Uptime
Closed-Loop Water Treatment
Power Backup
Systems Monitoring & Control
Micro-Grid & More

About GSC’s Utilities Management

Electricity, water, heating and cooling, and waste are vital resources in the operations of the Gemini Synergy Center, as well as other connected facilities or businesses. These resources power the entire operation and serve in part as byproducts of several of the technologies themselves (clean water for Sustainable Agriculture; and waste for the Bio Refinery).

To utilize these resources in an environmentally-friendly, sustainable, and efficient manner, components like a Micro-Grid and Water Treatment Facility are integrated into the cluster. These will minimize waste of water (as water will be treated and recycled in a closed loop), minimize the water needed to be replenished, and provide an integrated power supply (with 99.999% power uptime).

Utilities Management Impact

An independent, self-sustaining utility infrastructure enables communities, businesses, and industries to manage their power sources securely and reliably. With the precedent of damage that has been caused by blackouts in various regions, as well as other utility disasters, microgrids are increasingly becoming lucrative in preventing similar disasters from disabling entire business operations and slowing down communities that depend on a constant stream of electricity, water, heat, and other resources.

Supporting management, distribution, and generation of power to be autonomous from larger electricity networks allows a GSC to handle all resource needs on its own. Combined with the potential to become its own utility, a GSC can become a truly sustainable community of its own.

Resource Recovery

Features Overview

Extract Paper, Plastics, and Metals
Separate Organic Waste for Anaerobic Digestion
Provide Feedstock for Bio Refinery
Mine Existing Landfills for Resources

About GSC’s Resource Recovery

GSC’s Resource Recovery is designed to utilize state-of-the-art processing, sorting and baling technologies and equipment to effectively process mixed municipal solid waste (MSW). Several hundred thousand tons per year of MSW can pass through these facilities. Once the waste recovery operations are expanded with complimentary technologies from the Bio Refinery, it will send all non-recyclable and unused waste to supply the bio refinery located in the industrial and business park. Recyclable materials will be sorted and processed for sale; non-processed materials will be appropriated for other processes such as pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, cellulosic fiber conversion, and others.

Resource Recovery Impact

Resource Recovery serves as a technological infrastructure to separate, process, and handle large quantities of waste. In order to extract the greatest value from waste, it is necessary to categorize it and supply it in its purest possible forms, whether it’s plastics, bio-waste, metals, paper, liquids, and more. For large municipalities who are interested in handling as much of their waste resources as possible, the Resource Recovery is usually the first component as part of a larger Gemini Synergy Center installation.

The impact of processing waste effectively begins just there. Environmental sustainability, economic profitability, and social prosperity follow suit when starting with a facility that turns trash we cannot avoid into treasure.

Triple Bottom Line

Features Overview

Sustainable Communities
Waste Recovery & Reuse
Education & Job Creation
Improved Business Bottom Line

About GSC’s Triple Bottom Line

The Gemini Synergy Center provides infrastructure that can support waste recycling, abundant electricity and heat generation, complete water recycling and treatment, and other benefits. This enables surrounding businesses, residential areas, educational institutions, and other members of the community to gain numerous direct and indirect benefits from the operations of a GSC in their area.

Providing the means for businesses to improve their bottom line (by reducing ongoing O&M expenses as well as providing industry-specific resources like raw materials and processed commodities), and creating the need for hundreds of different jobs so one can maintain a growing and sustainable community, each community can benefit from a targeted implementation of Team Gemini’s holistic project model.

Triple Bottom Line Impact

Businesses and people depend on natural resources to flourish. A healthy environment therefore contributes to a flourishing community, but also a healthy citizenry. Properly implemented, a profitable business model strengthens these factors. Team Gemini looks at ways in which communities can use resources sustainably, and how businesses can do the same while reducing their overhead and burden on the environment on which they depend for profitability.

Education

Features Overview

Quality Control
Research & Development
Gemini Synergy Center Monitoring
Worker & Community Education
Industry & Business Growth

About GSC’s Education

In a majority of its projects, Team Gemini will build a Business & Education Center for a self-sustaining industry. Such a facility serves to integrate operations, monitoring, and business management on-site for a project and help incorporate educational and research collaborations with institutions such as colleges, universities, research companies, product developers, and others.

From Quality Control to Human Resources Management, to product improvements and controls of the GSC, the Business Center serves qualitative purposes in maintaining successful operations of the project.

GSC Education Impact

Collaboration with educational and research institutions and companies is deemed a vital component of Team Gemini’s projects. For example, Team Gemini is partnering with The Ohio State University to create a pioneering Bioenergy Associate Degree in the U.S. Other collaborations include work with the University of Rostock and Leibniz Institute in Germany, which have ramifications for product development and technology performance (such as selecting the type of fish to be grown in the aquaponic greenhouses, or supplementing the GSC’s Bio Refinery with new innovations).

The potential benefits resulting from working with educational institutions in both the short- and long-term cannot be understated, and thus it continues to be a staple component of the overall GSC.