New Jobs for America

AMERICAN THERMAL POWER

Electricity from Low Temperature Waste Heat

New Permanent Manufacturing Jobs throughout the U.S. — without subsidies

ATP’s VLTHE technology can create more good manufacturing jobs throughout the U.S. much faster than any other form of Alternative Energy. And these jobs cannot be exported, or lost to cheap foreign competition.

Photovoltaic solar panels, for example, are built in huge, expensive plants that take a long time to build. Exotic processes are highly automated, so few people are employed in these plants.

The manufacturing resources to build unlimited numbers of VLTHE systems already exist, all over America, some of them in your town. These products use a lot of American steel, and that steel is cast, forged, stamped, treated and machined. The factories, equipment and skills to build these things exist throughout the U.S., so production can be ramped up faster than with other alternative energy products—with a fraction of the capital required to produce solar or wind equipment.

But that is just the beginning of ATP’s decentralized manufacturing and distribution model. This model eliminates costs that do not add value, and puts the manufacturing jobs where the customers are: everywhere. The key components of the VLTHE (turbines, heat exchangers, controls) are only part of the story. When you acquire a VLTHE system, your local HVAC contractor combines ATP’s components with equipment and products from distributors in your area. A local shop makes the steel chassis and storage tank. Then your HVAC contractor builds the system locally, installs it (with your local electrician) and maintains it for you. Most of the manufacturing jobs created by VLTHE technology are local, hometown jobs throughout America.

While exporting millions of manufacturing jobs might look good on quarterly profit statements, the real costs are ignored. When you eliminate a wealth-creating manufacturing job, eventually you eliminate two more jobs in the economy. This creates a downward spiral. We can and must reverse this trend, and ATP is proud to be part of the solution.

In any economy, manufacturing jobs create wealth by combining technology, materials and labor to produce products of lasting value. Products that pay for themselves have the highest lasting value and contribute the most to the economy. The good news is, a new manufacturing job today creates two more jobs in the future, and those jobs create more jobs, in an upward spiral.

With ATP’s decentralized manufacturing and distribution model, it is actually more profitable to manufacture VLTHE’s in the U.S. than overseas. Example: in the time it would take to build a container full of VLTHE turbines in Asia and ship them to the U.S., we can make ten times as many for the same amount of capital, right here in the U.S. Higher capital velocity means more profit per capital dollar and lower prices for customers. Cheap foreign labor cannot compete with that.

Yes, someday VLTHE’s will be made in China. But those systems will be installed in China.