Derek Hargis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "I have been considering ways to commercially produce biodiesel in India. My own thoughts have been along the lines of cargo containers. I want to get everything operational in 8 x 8 x 20 foot containers. They could be hauled about, set-up on site, etc. They don't need foundations."
I love containers - in fact the 40-foot hi-cube I bought in the States to carry my household goods to the Philippines is still my main storage facility. Unfortunately, they have a big weakness, namely that you can't pick them up or drop them on-site without a crane. There are tricks for picking up an empty container without a crane, but they won't work at all with a loaded one, and put quite a lot of wear on even an empty one. With my 40-footer only loaded to about half its full capacity, I still had to pay a day's rent on a boom crane and watch in agony while they took five lifts to move the container from the trailer to my pad. At least in the USA, used semi-trailers with axles, brakes and all are cheaper than the equivalent cargo container and are easy to recondition. You just detach the tractor (the expensive part) and send it on its revenue-making way while working at a given site. Marc de Piolenc Iligan, Philippines Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
