David, I'm trying to get a handle on what "yesterday's technology" is relative to biodiesel manufacture.
Esterification and transesterification technologies aren't going to be changing much more in the future than they have in the recent past. And even if a few improvements in CP or catalysts occur, the wheel is still going to be round, invaluable and profitable. Todd Swearingen ----- Original Message ----- From: David Teal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [biofuels-biz] DOE Grant > Tom, > Camillo reckons 250,000 gal/yr is too small to be economic based on European > experience. Please bear in mind that Europeans enjoyed a lot of EU > financial support and possibly illegal tax breaks in their home markets. > Therefore they did not have to hone costs in anything like the way you have > done at Yellow. I would suggest you could be right in thinking this is a > good size, looking at the Australian and British scenes, which started later > and had to be leaner with far less financial help. > My second point is that this forum is very concious of promising research > into new and better pathways for triglyceride to ester conversion, so it > would take a brave person to invest heavily in yesterday's technology. This > is not meant as any sort of slight on Camillo's offering nor on the > appropriateness of reminding us of it. Indeed, the same could be said of > Pacific's technology as mentioned by Keith. > > David T. > > > Biofuels at Journey to Forever > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > Biofuel at WebConX > http://www.webconx.com/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/ > > > Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/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/
