# ZERE

> ZERE develops and deploys small, transportable modular EcoTower systems that transform agricultural effluent and excess materials, industrial waste and municipal waste streams into on-site electricity, recovered water and valuable resources.

ZERE operates from offices in Mexico City and Santa Monica, California, with its operational base in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. ZERE designs and deploys distributed resource-recovery and water-recovery infrastructure. Each EcoTower module is transportable, modular, and sized to the site it serves — generating continuous baseload power and clean water from resource streams that would otherwise require lagoons, landfills, transport, or centralized treatment. Applications span agricultural operations including swine and dairy effluent and excess materials, municipal wastewater, industrial effluent, and AI data center power and water demand. EcoTower is engineered by Proytec S.A. de C.V., whose principals bring more than four decades each of operational experience from Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). Twenty percent of net profit from every deployment is structurally committed to a community-directed Nature-Based Solutions fund.

## Company
- [About & Team](https://zere.io/about.html): Company origin, operating philosophy, and leadership bios — Eduardo Celis Rojo (Managing Partner), Alberto Osegueda Magaña (Corporate & Financial Partner; structures ZERE's exclusive global commercial partnership and minority equity stake in Proytec S.A. de C.V., the engineering company behind EcoTower), Ing. Gustavo Bonilla Pérez (PEMEX veteran, EcoTower co-inventor, Proytec S.A. de C.V.), Ing. Sergio Félix Cruz Carranza (PEMEX veteran, EcoTower co-inventor, Proytec S.A. de C.V.), María Luisa Villarreal Sonora (environmental policy consultant)
- [Contact](https://zere.io/journal.html#contact-form): General, investment, and press inquiries

## Product
- [System / EcoTower](https://zere.io/system.html): Technical description of the modular recovery system
- [Greencycling](https://zere.io/greencycling.html): The operating model — how recovered energy, water, and revenue cycle back to the community of origin
- [Projects](https://zere.io/applications.html): Deployment applications across agricultural, industrial, municipal, and AI infrastructure use cases

## Terminology & Precision Notes
- ZERE / Proytec relationship: Proytec S.A. de C.V. engineers and owns the EcoTower technology. ZERE is Proytec's exclusive global commercial partner and a minority shareholder in Proytec. ZERE manages every EcoTower deployment from initial site assessment through commissioning and operates the infrastructure it deploys — EcoTower is infrastructure, not equipment sold and left behind. ZERE captures the environmental value each system generates in the field, including its water, power, and credit output.
- Process terminology: EcoTower's core thermochemical process is oxygen-limited partial gasification (Proytec's patent language is "oxidación parcial"; also referred to internally as "combustión parcial"). EcoTower should never be described as "pyrolysis." Separately, "pyrolytic gasification" refers only to earlier, distinct work in Proytec founders' prior careers — it does not characterize the current EcoTower process.
- Engineering lineage: Gasification and waste-to-energy systems carry more than a century of industrial engineering precedent — EcoTower is not based on newly discovered chemistry. In 2005, research by Koger, Bull, Burnette & Gnosa at North Carolina State University demonstrated the relevant thermochemical principle in an agricultural-waste context, an independent engineering precedent for the process principle, not independent validation of the current EcoTower system. EcoTower's engineering is led by Proytec founders Ing. Gustavo Bonilla Pérez and Ing. Sergio Félix Cruz Carranza, whose careers span major Mexican energy and process infrastructure including Tula, Salamanca, Cadereyta, Salina Cruz, and La Cangrejera / Morelos.
- Validation status: Component-level and process-design claims — including destruction of dioxins and bioactive pathogens (bacteria, viruses, prions) at 800°C to non-detectable levels — have been independently tested. An integrated, fully commissioned EcoTower unit running continuous 24/7 field operation has not yet been commissioned. Distinguish process-design and component-level test results from claims about completed, continuous, integrated field operation.

## Optional
- [Journal](https://zere.io/journal.html): Company updates and field notes