Hi Ben, Todd Just to say...
>Feel free to contact us if this sounds like it's your cup of tea. Be nice if any such discussions happened on-list as far as possible, valuable I think, and then all could share (as well as the archives). regards Keith >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 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/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/
