Donna, In a nutshell, our cost to extrude and press oil out of soybean, selling feed meal by the metric ton and converting the oil to biodiesel, building a plant from scratch, truck scales, grain bins, legs, storage tanks, etc., is calculated at $600,000 US, just to get to the point where the switch can be flipped.
The cost would not be much different for hemp. A plant of this size would consume 12,150 tons of oilseed annually, give or take 9,000 acres. The biodiesel section would not be maxed out by the pressed oil, requiring some import of waste oil feedstocks from the surrounding area. Mind you, 9,000 acres in a circle is not a very large geographical radius, even including forested and fallow lands. Todd Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] > How much would this process cost? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donna Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 12:36 AM > Subject: Re: [biofuel] NEW can you help? > > > > What would the costs be to produce methanol from hemp? Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
