Dick,
I agree with most of what you have laid out here.
There is a "window" of opportunity that is simply
closed to subsistence farmers. In my experience
subsistence farmers tend to be even more "cooperative"
than "bourgeois" farmers and so a single biodiesel
powered "tractor" may lower the "win
Hi Dick
I'm afraid you paint with far too broad a brush, very sweeping
generalisations - true, but very far from the only thing that's true.
There are far more than a billion subsistence farms, and the variety
of circumstance is immense - do you really think you cover them all
with what you'v
From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rethinking economy of scale
Bravo Marc! And thankyou!
A couple of things to add. Biodiesel may or may not be feasible at the
individual small-peasant level
*or necessary, i might add... bullocks, mules, and such are known to have
little
Bravo Marc! And thankyou!
A couple of things to add. Biodiesel may or may not be feasible at
the individual small-peasant level, but it will be feasible at the
next scale - a small-farmers' coop, perhaps. We need to know
something about using biodiesel instead of the kero in the coco-kero
mix
Excellent assessment! Works for First world pensioners too.
Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html
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Dear listmates,
There has been traffic on both lists about the need to scale up
production of biofuels to "economical" levels, and that has triggered
much thinking on my part. Until now I, too, had been concentrating on
industrial scale processes - admittedly still not on a very large
industrial
