Company Description:
Bixby Energy Systems, Inc. was founded by Robert Walker in June of 2001. Already a successful inventor/entrepreneur Walker invented the Sleep Number Bed and began marketing it through Select Comfort Corporation, a company he and his wife JoAnn founded in 1987. Select Comfort grew rapidly into a company with more than 400 stores and sales in excess of $700 million. Select Comfort is today ranked as the #1 bedding retailer in the U.S. by Furniture Today magazine. After retiring from Select Comfort, Walker became concerned with the developing energy crisis and the real possibility that the world was running out of fossil fuels. The increasing concern with global warming also made him realize that new energy solutions would be needed in the future. In 2000, when energy prices skyrocketed, he began researching alternative energy in earnest and quickly learned that the waste materials of the world, biomass, municipal solid waste, sewage, wood waste, even rubber tires carried huge potential as new energy sources. He also realized that the key to harvesting and processing these materials so that they could eventually be utilized as alternative fuels required developing an efficient, cohesive acquisition and transportation system that could efficiently and economically access this potential. Bixby Energy's research in this new energy arena resulted in the development of the MaxFire biomass stove in the fall of 2004. Capable of burning dry shelled corn, wood and biomass pellets to 99.7% efficiency, the MaxFire today represents the state-of-the-art in stove technology. That year, Bixby also acquired a transportation company with a unique delivery method that would become the basis for the development of its transportation, processing, and utilization strategy. That concept today is the division known as Bixby Delivery Solutions. Bixby Energy is ever evolving and today has developed into a full blown new energy company seeking to provide the world with the best technological solutions to the world's energy problems. From its initial beginning as a stove company, also developing engineered fuels from the waste of the world, it is, in 2007, introducing a dynamic new vertical axis wind system superior to today's windmill type systems and a revolutionary gasification system that can operate using waste materials and coal. It is the first system capable of using coal as the fuel and creating no carbon emissions. This is just the first two of many revolutionary new energy technologies currently being developed through its continuing research and development efforts. Bixby Energy Systems, Inc. is dedicated to finding, developing, and providing the best technology, systems, and methodology available today to provide clean, economical, and independent new energy solutions for the world of the future.
Bixby Energy Systems, Inc. was founded by Robert Walker in June of 2001. Already a successful inventor/entrepreneur Walker invented the Sleep Number Bed and began marketing it through Select Comfort Corporation, a company he and his wife JoAnn founded in 1987. Select Comfort grew rapidly into a company with more than 400 stores and sales in excess of $700 million. Select Comfort is today ranked as the #1 bedding retailer in the U.S. by Furniture Today magazine. After retiring from Select Comfort, Walker became concerned with the developing energy crisis and the real possibility that the world was running out of fossil fuels. The increasing concern with global warming also made him realize that new energy solutions would be needed in the future. In 2000, when energy prices skyrocketed, he began researching alternative energy in earnest and quickly learned that the waste materials of the world, biomass, municipal solid waste, sewage, wood waste, even rubber tires carried huge potential as new energy sources. He also realized that the key to harvesting and processing these materials so that they could eventually be utilized as alternative fuels required developing an efficient, cohesive acquisition and transportation system that could efficiently and economically access this potential. Bixby Energy's research in this new energy arena resulted in the development of the MaxFire biomass stove in the fall of 2004. Capable of burning dry shelled corn, wood and biomass pellets to 99.7% efficiency, the MaxFire today represents the state-of-the-art in stove technology. That year, Bixby also acquired a transportation company with a unique delivery method that would become the basis for the development of its transportation, processing, and utilization strategy. That concept today is the division known as Bixby Delivery Solutions. Bixby Energy is ever evolving and today has developed into a full blown new energy company seeking to provide the world with the best technological solutions to the world's energy problems. From its initial beginning as a stove company, also developing engineered fuels from the waste of the world, it is, in 2007, introducing a dynamic new vertical axis wind system superior to today's windmill type systems and a revolutionary gasification system that can operate using waste materials and coal. It is the first system capable of using coal as the fuel and creating no carbon emissions. This is just the first two of many revolutionary new energy technologies currently being developed through its continuing research and development efforts. Bixby Energy Systems, Inc. is dedicated to finding, developing, and providing the best technology, systems, and methodology available today to provide clean, economical, and independent new energy solutions for the world of the future.