Ben, If you're intending to use grease from your dining halls, I imagine that you're going to have more than 1,000 gallons annually, unless you are a whoppingly miniscule college. Might I suggest that you abandon the idea of "not for profit" and opt instead for "reasonable rate of return?" You could let your fuel go for a little over $1.00 US and at least provide some operating capital and further your goals elsewhere, all the while your buyers would be getting a stand up deal.
Second, you might care to consider starting the biodiesel immediately and using it as a small money engine, rather than wating interminabley for any form of grant, especially in light of the fact that much grant money is also tax payer money. You would be saving your university a cumulative disposal fee, providing less expensive fuel for farmers and perhaps those who can least afford the high cost of winter heating oil, as well as moving your overall goal a little closer with each batch processed - all without as much reliance on grant money. If frugal, you could set up a top-rate batch facility out of the operating fund of one of your environmental groups, one that could quite easily process several hundred gallons daily. We're in the process of bolting together exactly such a facility in Southeast Ohio, expecting it to be fully operational by mid-June. The "blueprint" isn't anything grand, nor is the system all that expensive, all the while accomodating every aspect of the waste stream, something that is not so frequently done on the small scale. Feel free to contact us if this sounds like it's your cup of tea. Todd Swearingen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Shuman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 3:39 AM Subject: [biofuels-biz] Moderate Production System... > Hello all.... > > I'm sure this question will be quite similar to other questions that have > been answered many times in the past, but i'm new and don't hurt me ;) > > The eastern WV college which I attend is the owner of a 200 acre farm which > is currently seeing little use. There is an initiative to use this availible > land in ways which would be beneficial to the community both educationally > and practically. Current plans, assuming grant funding could be found, is > to convert the entire farm into an example of what is possible > agricultrually using green alternitives. This includes converting the 1837 > farm house and barns to solar power, installing composting toilets, > establishing an organic community farm, composting all vegetable matter from > campus, maintaining a heritige vegitable garden and orchard, as well as a > working examples of uses of alternitive fuels, mainly bio-diesel. > > As part of this latter goal, we would like for all the equipment to be using > fuel from processed waste vegetible oil from the dinning halls on campus > (expanding to other local sources as needed). Since we would already be > processing the oil and probably making more fuel than needed, we would like > to make the excess availible to the community on a non-profit basis. > > If there is a resource availible which would detail how to make (or > purchase) a system which could process a moderate amount of fuel (somewhere > above 1000 Gal annually), please let me know. With this information, we > could start finding sources of funding for this aspect of the project. > > If you might know of any locations which might be willing to supply a grant > to fund some part of this project (be it solar, biodiesel, composting, > capital, etc), that would also be appriciated. Thank you for your > assistance. > > Ben Shuman > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > > > 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/ > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/aM1XQD/od7FAA/uetFAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
