Depends on the region. For where? Regards,
Edward Beggs, BES, MSc www.biofuels.ca on 5/21/02 11:27 AM, Ken Provost at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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? > > > > > > 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/ > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/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/
