Dear Keith, Todd, et. al., Before I went to India for a look, I would have agreed with you. However, the roads are so bad that it took me five hours to travel a distance of 110 k (68 miles) on one of the official Indian highways in a Jeep going as fast as it could go, or as fast as the driver dared. I took this trip from the city to a farm. The farm is located at about 25 miles from the closest market to sell the farm's produce. This 25 mile trip to market took two hours by Jeep and stretched out to five hours when the trip is made with a tractor pulling a trolley of grain.
Therefore, given the condition of the roads, and the apparent lack of desire on the part of anyone to improve them, I think it might work better to bring the processing plant to the farm, rather than the farm produce to the plant. I also think it may work better in that economy to have multiple small plants rather than one large plant for a given area. Thanks for all the feedback, Derek W. Hargis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Container Plants > Hi Todd > > I agree, I can't see it - well, not for the likes of us. Nor for > farmers, coops, local communities. It's corporate stuff I guess. > > >Keith, > > > >Took a look at the mobile bio-d plant. Off the cuff, it may have an > >application somewhere, but you're talking a boatload of > >infrastructure and cost to move it whenever - cranes, lifts, time to > >fit it all together. What would be the oil sources that would be > >tapped only on occasion that would warrant the mobility? When all is > >said and done it has about the same size footprint as what we've > >"blueprinted" for a oilseed facility producing 550,000 gallons of > >bio-d annually and some 9,000 acres. > > <Major Snip> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
