Darryl, Just wanted to commend you on your excellent and well organized proposals.
"Act locally about energy" is your overarching theme, and I absolutely agree. Grand schemes always seem to lead to grand corruption. Local closed resource loops usually make the most sense, whether for food, goods, or energy. The world will be a nicer place when we realize that the 'benefits of scale' are often really the 'benefits of passing hidden costs to others'. Only the most complex technologies, e.g. clean-room semiconductor manufacturing, really benefit from scaling up. Of course, in this group, i'm preaching to the choir ;) Taryn On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Darryl McMahon wrote: > Dear Jim (and others), > > IMHO, looking to create an industry may be the wrong perspective for > making biofuels actually work for your community (county). > > Rather than starting with a grand plan, which will inevitably get > undercut and underfunded when it comes to implementation, why not start > with a lot of low-cost, small initiatives. These should focus on the > local 'waste' materials, determining how they can be utilized, and > matching them up to uses. This can lead to the development of small > businesses, and as an economic development director, I'm sure you know > that small businesses create more jobs per dollar of investment than do > large businesses. Small businesses are less likely to relocate away, > and they create the underpinnings for communities that work. ... [and many > creative proposals] _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
