The oil sells for a very high price. Too high value for fuel.
Regards, Edward Beggs, BES, MSc www.biofuels.ca on 5/21/02 12:44 PM, kirk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I live in Montana. It grows in weed patches, turned soil, burned areas, > roadsides etc. > You should be able to find lots of info on web. Some people cultivate it for > the pods. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shukrainternationals [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 1:31 PM > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: biofuel at the pumps > > > 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! 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