Ben, we have a system running here in Cleveland, Ohio that can be assembled very inexpensively. We'd be happy to have you come up and visit and we'll have you pitch in, make a batch, and see how the setup can be assembled back home in WV. Drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on 5/15/03 4:39 AM, Ben Shuman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 -- Ray L. Holan Dataworks 1003 Woodlane Dr. Mayfield Village, OH 44143-3321 Phone: 440-446-0003 Pager: 440-733-0874 Database Designs Since 1987 ------------------------ 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/
