Todd, et al., I finally realized that this is a message board, not an emailed list service. Sorry for the late reply.
Actually, the college is one of the smaller in the area. The dinning hall serves 800 at best. Still, I am sure the 1,000 gal. estimate is rather low. I'm also unsure of the conversion rate of WVO to usable fuel nor how much oil is being disposed of annually. We assumed we would be self-suffuicient almost immediately on the bio-fuel side, both by marketing the fuel as well as soap (or atleast sell the materials to someone interested in making soap), and that would finance the other projects to a degree. However, the long term costs of the entire endevor exceed the short term profit expectations of the bio-fuel supply. I was very pleased to see that you could also use the fuel for winter heating oil, many of those in the area (as well as almost the entire college) rely on this source. "...you could set up a top-rate batch facility that could quite easily process several hundred gallons daily. We're in the process of bolting together exactly such a facility in Southeast Ohio." This is precisely what I'm interested in. What kind of cost estimate could you project for such a facility? My plans were to entice all of the science clubs on campus to assist in each of the aspects of the project, and a rough estimate to assist in fundraising would be extremely helpful. Also, I'd love to at least see the plans and build off your knowledge. Good luck with your project! Thanks for all the information. Ben Shuman _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------ 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/
