Where does it grow? ----- Original Message ----- From: "kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: RE: [biofuel] Re: biofuel at the pumps
> Milkweed is one I remember. Grows pretty well some places. > > Kirk > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harmon Seaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:46 AM > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: biofuel at the pumps > > > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:27:27AM -0700, Ken Provost wrote: > > 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? > > Not for oil, but cattails for ethanol certainly fits that bill. In fact, > locally I'm currently half-heartedly investigating a couple of different > cattail > control programs -- really big areas, hundreds, maybe thousands of acres, > that > the DNR and other people are looking at to restore to a more diverse > habitat. Their plan is to drain the areas and try to burn the cattails. I'd > think if they drain it enough, going in with big 4WD tractors w/double tires > pulling a potato digger it might both serve their purposes and create a > fantastic harvest of ethanol feedstock, plus biomass (the tops) for > gasification. > I say half-heartedly only because I'm just in no position financially to > do > anything with it, although with the new ethanol plant being built within a > few > miles of one huge cattail marsh they want to clear, it would seem an easy > market. > > > -- > Harmon Seaver > CyberShamanix > http://www.cybershamanix.com > > > 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/ > > > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.363 / Virus Database: 201 - Release Date: 5/21/2002 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.363 / Virus Database: 201 - Release Date: 5/21/2002 > > > > > 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 ---------------------~--> Take the Yahoo! Groups survey for a chance to win $1,000. Your opinion is very important to us! http://us.click.yahoo.com/NOFBfD/uAJEAA/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/
