GAS-L: More Wankel/Producer-Gas news

[Peter Singfield <snkm@btl.net>]

NEW JOINT VENTURE

Columbia, Maryland – Wednesday, April 12, 2000 - Mr. Ken Brody, President
and Chief Executive Officer of Rotary Power International, Inc. (“RPI”) and
Mr. William Partanen, President and Chief Executive Officer of BG
Technologies USA, Inc. (“BGT”) of Columbia MD, a company controlled by Swiss
Re Investors of Zurich, Switzerland are pleased to announce that they have
signed a Letter of Intent to form a joint venture.

The joint venture is proceeding to set up a pilot plant to demonstrate the
technology and economics of a BGT gasification system producing low BTU
gases to fuel an RPI rotary engine to generate electricity.  No other engine
can operate solely on the low BTU producer gas at the level of efficiency
that can be achieved with the rotary engines.

BGT’s primary focus is integrated biomass gasifier-based energy systems for
industrial and domestic applications.  BGT’s gasification technology
provides for an environmentally sound method of disposing of various biomass
waste materials that now threaten water and air resources throughout the
world.  By using these waste materials to generate electrical and thermal
energy, BGT solves both an environmental problem and produces low cost
energy for consumption.


For further information:  1)  William E. Partanen , President and CEO, BG
Technologies USA Inc. at (410) 740-3025, e-mail bpartanen@bgtllc.com OR 2)
Ronald G. McKeown, Londonderry Capital Structuring Ltd. at (905) 888-0500,
e-mail: london.derry@sympatico.ca  OR 3 )  Ken Brody, President and CEO,
Rotary Power International, Inc., at (973) 470-7001, e-mail:
kenlbear@msn.com


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