Thanks Rob! Those are some excellent links with good overview points. I'll try to incorporate some of that in my next talk.
Tonight's presentation to the Sierra Club went extremely well. They let me ramble on for over an hour while interrupting many times to ask some excellent questions. Except for one gadfly (what happens to the sodium or potassium in the wash water? Won't it contaminate drinking water or fields...) every one was extremely positive. In fact one guy with business and political connections thought I was thinking too small when I proposed a coop type partnership. He suggested I approach Stetson University (yes, the one started by the hat guy here in Deland, FL) business school for a business development grant or even the county council to fuel the local school buses etc. He even thought that the University would love to jump all over a "green" project and will approach the University president! We might even get a lot of student interest and support similar to Piedmont and UNC. Three of us are meeting this coming Monday night here in Deland to plot strategy. If anyone out there would like to join us, just let me know! Thanks again! Steve --- rob crowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi steven > > hakan falk recently posted a useful link in reply to the hybrid vehicle > thread. the link is: > http://energysavingnow.com/biofuels/dieseltech.shtml > > at the bottom of the page is another link to a talk given by an exec of > Bosch USA that discusses the impact on U.S. fuel consumption and > pollution if the U.S. increased the percentage of diesel passenger > vehicles. currently, one percent of U.S. new vehicle sales are diesel. > he looks at the impact if the U.S. went to forty and eighty percent > diesel-equipped new vehicle sales by 2010. quite interesting. perhaps > you could extrapolate to biodiesel from his numbers. it might help you > check your numbers for your presentation to the sierra club. > > good luck, > rob > > > steven mesibov wrote: > > >Keith, John, > > > >Thanks for the response. Hopefully the Club Sierra will be fairly well > >controled, if for no other reason than I was invited by one of the > >directors! :-) > > > >As far as the right questions to ask: > > > >My approach is that no one solution is going to fix the problem. The > >problem is far to complex and developed over to many years. But as any > >MBA knows, the real cost is always at the margin: What would happen if > we > >reduced our dependance on foriegn oil by 2%? 5%? Prices may not go > down > >much but they would certainly tend to go down if all other things > >remaining the same. > > > >Of course demand won't remain the same, its going to go up as it has > been > >for years. And that needs to be addressed. But as for me, thats a > topic > >for another day... I'm focusing on the topic of my talk: "A Step in > the > >Right Direction" > > > >Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
