Hello all, I'm Brian from Portland. I'm part of the biodiesel co-op effort up here.
For those of you who don't know, I have a lot of respect for girl mark. She helped introduce me to low tech biodiesel making at a seminar, and has done a lot more than just about anyone I know to spread the word about biofuels. It is ironic that as this comes up, our processor was just completed. I guess you can't please everyone; some people in our group think we are moving way too fast, others too slow. Anyway, our activities are posted in detail on our website: http://www.gobiodiesel.org One thing I do know is this: we have a terrific group of really motivated people who are making a difference. We are making a difference by driving biodiesel-powered vehicles, by spreading the word, by building a cooperative that has a long term future, and by sharing our experiences. If you check our site or drop us an email, you can see we're actually doing most of what girl mark is exhorting folks to do. We've made plenty of mistakes and expect to make more, that's just how it goes. I have no idea where the 77 cent price came from. Where in the world did you get that? I searched the archives and didn't find anything. We don't know what the price of our fuel will be; it certainly won't be 77 cents. We will be lucky if we can sell it for around the same cost as petrodiesel. So, thanks girl mark for sharing all of this experience about the berkeley co-op. Please post more! Blue skies, -Brian Jamison --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, "girl_mark_fire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just realized that it sounds really mean for me to a) talk about how the > Portland coop is recruiting and talking to reporters, without having actually > made fuel yet, and tob) at the same time be tooting my own horn on a list > about the grand plans of Team Canola, who hasn't made fuel at it's business > site either. > The missing difference is that as a 'coop' we actually have been making drum > batches (in my backyard) as part of our 'keep it realistic, keep it rewarding' > approach- so that those in the group who are 'waiting' for the site to get > operational, are at least getting fuel in the process and don' t burn out... . We > took a couple of months of sporadic workdays to build the processor, these > usually involved the sacred mission to Keep the Co-op Work Fun (meaning > we incorporate barbeque-ing into the equipment workday or fuelmaking > party). We've also tried hard to make sure that our members fueling needs are > partly or fully met while they work on building equipment- so it's not just 8 > months of work and meetings and nobiodiesel. (berkeley had a massive 'no > reward' problem for a while, you never knew if doing workdays was going to > result in you actually getting any fuel since so little of the stuff was actually > being produced for all the man-hours) Having seen a lot of burnout in coops, > we've tried hard to keep the 'reward-to-work' ratio high during the equipment > building and design phase, and I strongly suggest anyone organizing one of > these volunteer groups keep this value very high. Bulk buy take some of the > 'reward' pressure off the homebrew end of a coop operation. People who get > a diesel and can't find biodiesel and are waiting for a coop to get it's act > together tend to be very antsy about production and availability! > > mark ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/uetFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
