The $10 came from some gal in Connecticut.
A share, you have a stake in the co-op and all future revenues. You also have a place to live that provides you food, water, and energy, if everything goes to ****. I had it listed as a 'perk' but any form of ownership interest is against Indiegogo's TOS so I had to take it off.
Power sales will be handled like all other power sale co-ops, that is the only positive legacy of Enron.
It's the Marcellus shale, and actually there are three strata of gas reserves there. The exact reserve below, or what a particular well will produce is not something that is accurately predicted even by the biggest operators. Shell just spent billions and several seasons of effort in Alaska to finally drill a well, and it was crap so they've abandoned the whole program. This field itself is already developed without frac'ing and producing well enough to function at this point, so it's a reasonable expectation that a well on the property would provide the required gas, but yes, until the well is drilled, it's a gamble same as any other wildcater's well.
Cost is going to be around $5MM to get the property, drill the well, get the initial SOFC, build the initial greenhouse and algae reactors. Cash flow is impossible to predict because the operating model has never been tried, that's part of what a proof of concept model's function is, to develop the data to make those predictions. I don't have the resources available to me to theoretically make those predictions.
Well, since it's a NFP and it's a co-op membership, some of the core issues of that are avoided. The other option I have available and an EIN number for is to structure it as a church and that avoids all the issues, I would prefer to avoid that though.
Offering shares falls under the SEC rules for crowd funding. For example, you are 4 million over the allowable limit, if you try to raise the full amount during a year. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to be spelled out in plain English here: http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-249.html
I also see none of the required disclosures.
Marcellus shale? That places it in southern/western NY. Most of the gas is coming from south and west of NY, suggesting there may not be a good amount of usable gas there. The potential price of the gas should be built in into the price of the land if mineral rights are included. It is an asset for sale along with the land.
Cash flow? It's really not a new model. You spend money getting gas, you make money selling power in whatever form (gas, electric, biofuel). You should know what you need to spend, that's a reasonable hard number. Income is more tricky since you don't know if the well will come through, but you are confident enough to ask people to invest, so you should be able to make a reasonable estimate, with the appropriate disclaimers. you mentioned other coops, and that means there are models for this sort of cash flow.
If NFP (not for profit), what future revenues does one get? NFP means the surplus revenues are used for organization's purpose or mission, rather than to the shareholders. If it is truly NFP, I really don't have a stake in future revenues.