Maybe you're looking at it from the wrong angle. If you're having trouble drawing business, try growing your own.
Have you ever considered an advanced credit program for the highschool? Maybe you could work with the University Board and the Ag Extension office to allow a couple of college credits for participating. Most kids I know would jump at the chance to play with chemicals, and transesterfication is a very visible reaction when done properly. You could get the shop classes involved with manufacturing the containment system, the chem classes for the process, if you insist there needs to be any automation, you can get computer classes involved. The Ag department in my old HS has a test plot- if there can be anything like that for you, you can even get them involved. Judging by the state profile of your county, I'm guessing the average combined class size should be about 375. I see you have a tech school as well, very nice.(hint-hint) If you want I can dig through the curricula for all the schools and build a list of prereq's. Make it a senior year project. > Jason, > > 1. Virtually nothing in the way of legal restrictions. Public mood is > being sculpted (maybe... but toward what? I'm no longer certain myself)) > 2. No plans for incentives at this time. May revisit that question if > things heat up. > 3. May have some influence if someone decides to locate an operation > here. To be honest biofuels is starting to look like a flop. I can't > find any way to make the numbers work. Yields are too low and prices > also. It may be another couple of centuries till this stuff "floats" > (pardon the pun). > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20100616/702641ff/attachment.html _______________________________________________ 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/
