Bary, from all my reading, there is a huge opunity, with little investment,
at the present time. $26.67 sounds about right from my 13 years spent in the
Navy. In a previous note,wet noodle. In my first 6 years, i never got any
schooling except swim , fire fighting, and first aid, and SERE for air combat
crew, after I went avaition. Then I went to B school, for jet mechanic. The big
emphis was on the upcomming turbo fan engine. of course always just being a
plane captian, I was to nieve to have an opinion, but all the old salts , swore
it would never work.
By shere luck, I was selected to go to Genral Electric, in West Lyn MA , as
they built the Engine and then to Lockheed in Burbank, who built the air craft.
The S 3A , still flying missions today. Recently , needing an ego boost, I
commented to my wife about some of my accomplishments, especialy for an
uneducated. I ran the quick engine change crew for the entire US Navy, at North
Island for two years.
And I would bet, a few of us in this group could make fuel to lite off the
engines, if we needed to do so. We are looking at some exciting times ahead , in
several alternative fuels. I have had a rewarding life, the things I have done,
but to see and be involved, even if just for indivual needs, is a prefect end to
my life, if I see it all come about on a larger scale.
On the algae, the big cost, or sales pitch for it is cracking the micro
algaes shell. Some indivual expiermenters are using their micro wave, a common
hydrogen generator, like you build using a water filter case, by pulsating
electricity, and there is talk that coffe will excite them and crak the shell. I
want to gathr some local algae and see if it works, meaning the micro wave. Bill
C

--- In Biodiesel@yahoogroups.com, Barry Latham <barrylatham@...> wrote:
>
> As seen in the February 20, 2012, "Chemical & Engineering News," the weekly
journal of the American Chemical Society
>  
> "As a “home brewer” of biodiesel from waste vegetable oil, I find it
always exciting to read about biodiesel in C&EN (Jan. 16, page 31). I have been
producing and using it in dozens of different makes/models for the past six
years with great success! I was greatly concerned when I read that the Navy is
using algae-based biofuels for aviation and marine purposes, and I would like to
make a competitive bid. The Navy contract is for $12 million for 450,000 gal,
which comes to $26.67 per gal. My fuel costs between $0.24 and $1.08 to produce;
I’ll mark it up only 1,300% and save the taxpayers $6 million dollars.
>  
> By Barry Latham
> Homewood, Ill"
>  
> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i8/Modest-Proposal.html
>