Motie writes: >I think home brewers have a distinct advantage over commercial-level >volumes, because home facilities can use wasteproducts, and perhaps >even get paid for disposal. > How much would it cost you to hire someone to make Oil pickups for a >plant to produce 1000 gallons/day? How far from home would you have >to go to gather that much waste? The cost of collection and transport >would not be worthwhile. >If you simply gather up what is readily available in the course of >your normal activities, the cost is much less.
Economics get all counter-intuitive when a resource is widely/thinly distributed -- sunlight is another great example. What's interesting about vegoil is that it starts out very concentrated and expensive, and ends up widely distributed but of poor quality. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a widely distributed oil crop that was of little food use, so that good quality oil could be had in small quantities anywhere. Something like acorns, pinenuts, gopher plant, or perhaps a weed we're not paying attention to. And I don't mean jatropha, or jojoba, or cuphea, or anything you have to PLANT -- then it just becomes another agribusiness. I mean an already existing weed. Any ideas? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/DlIU9C/4m7CAA/Ey.GAA/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/
