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Dear Karl, thank you for sharing your positive support for our efforts. We very much look forward to communicate with you to identify how we can collaborate and continue to build and enhance what we view as our contribution to an emerging new model of economic and social growth. We believe this model can and should be replicated (adjusted for local characteristics) in many geographies, driving a revival of new technology development focused on health, energy and the environment. We are strongly in favor of the bundling of experience and networks to make this happen.

Our model is private sector driven, but will benefit from strong institutional / government support as we gather industry and academic backing. Having industry and academics actively engaged from the concept stage onwards in the Renewable Energy R&D cluster should allow for the development of a highly collaborative environment that can shorten time to market of new technologies, one of the key elements of success in today's highly competitive solar and other renewable technology markets.

Within the Preventive Health Care Clinic, we are looking to act as enablers for the health care industry, initially promoting a think tank to provide parameters for the design of a new Personalised Medicine based unit. Moving from a reactive based health care system to a prevention based system will require existing and new stakeholders to rethink the way in which their organisations operate. We believe thorough expert joint analysis and subsequent implementation of such a new model clinic will allow an acceleration of the promise that scientific advances of gene and cell therapy hold.

Our public facing facility, called Experience Park, is where we intend to challenge the general public to engage in science and technology, in a way that is fun, educational, and actionable at the individual level. In order to achieve a significant positive impact in CO2 reduction and health care improvement, a broad based
behavioral shift needs to be achieved in a relatively short time frame. We believe that the Experience Park concept can be supportive of this effort, while also stimulating a positive mind set in younger generations towards science and its many opportunities.

I look forward to take this discussion forward with you outside of this forum, and will be in touch shortly.

PS: by the way - one of our principle goals for the project execution and operation is to be carbon neutral or even positive. Among many ways to achieve this are the active management of a 200ha biodiversity park, generating our own (solar/wind) energy, and incorporation of forward looking design and engineering technologies in collaboration with leading academics and institutions (urban metabolism). The aim being to become a model sustainable community.