Cross-post. >From: Michael Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:02:27 +1200 >Subject: Re: [biofuels-biz] questions from New Zealand >Reply-To: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com > >Dear Chanti and Prof. AK, > >So pleased to hear that you both enjoyed New Zealand! > >Perhaps you could ask your friendly pig farmer to contact me so I >can put him in touch >with biodiesels and universities who are active in New Zealand at present. > >Because New Zealand is the largest manufacture of methanol in the southern >hemisphere, he should find it fairly easy to get one major >ingredient. We also make quite a >lot of ethanol from dairy waste (mainly lactose) but that (IMO) >sensibly goes into making >gin! The handling, transport and storage of these materials is >regulated (of course) by the >Department of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and the Dangerous Goods Act >amongst several others. > >One interesting feature of diesel usage in New Zealand is that heavy >commercial road >transport is required to have a tamper-proof hub-meter so that they >pay a tax on >kilometres of road they have travelled. (Why should other road users >subsidise the >operation of commercial trucking ?) > >Smaller diesel powered vehicles are required to pay a road tax >BEFORE they travel those >costly kilometres. In effect, they buy a license to travel so many >kilometres over the next >six months or so (without reimbursement if they get it wrong). > >This means that the pump price reflects the production cost and its >fuel tax only. >Currently this is 69c NZ /litre = 38c US/litre = 1.44 US$/US gal. > >A couple of companies already make biodiesel from tallow (we have s >few meat factories >and freezing works!). However most of them find it economically >pretty marginal. And, if >the biodiesel is to be used for powering vehicles on the roads, that >road tax is still >payable! > >I have worked with a pig farmer in Fiji to produce methane on which >he can run his >vehicles. Because Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is still used in NZ >by quite a large >number, I would expect your friendly pig farmer to use methane as a >fuel rather than >biodiesel. But, whatever he decides, the technology he needs is >already available locally. > > >Regards > >Michael Allen > > >18/03/03 19:06:52, Chanti Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Greetings > >We are two women from California travelling in New > >Zealand. We run our truck on bio-diesel in the states > >and are part of a cooperative, and we have met a man > >here who is keen on the idea and wants to start a > >bio-diesel business. He is a pig farmer who collects > >veggie oil and food waste for a living and so he is > >basically all set up! > >Our questions in helping him are that we don't know > >the legalities, requirements, permits, etc... > >we know that each country is different but if anyone > >has experience, contacts, ideas - we would love to > >hear. > >Does anyone have any info about making ethanol from > >food waste? > > > >Thanks and blessings, Chanti Smith > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! > >http://platinum.yahoo.com > > > > > > > >Biofuels at Journey to Forever > >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuel at WebConX > >http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm > >List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: > >http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >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/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Biofuels at Journey to Forever >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >Biofuel at WebConX >http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm >List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ >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/
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