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Posted on 02/21/2009 6:37:14 AM PST by SonnyBubba
BAY MINETTE — Cello Energy sprouted quietly here as a truly homegrown industry. But it won't stay that way, said David Bransby, professor of energy crops and bio-energy at Auburn University. The company has been in startup for about two months, making renewable diesel fuel from tires, hay, straw, wood chips and switchgrass. Full production should begin in March, with a goal of 20 million gallons a year, produced for well under a $1 gallon, company officials said. Created, built and financed by the father-and-son team of Jack and Allen Boykin of Daphne, the company will "shock the world," Bransby said.
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They have a difficult battle ahead, but more power to them; people like them are the key, although opposed at every turn by the coalition of big government, big oil, big ag and big envirowacko fundraisers.
Knock!
13 pounds of material produces a gallon of fuel.
The mind boggles at the different ways to get cell walls to produce this stuff.
I read where a Japanese man made diesel from pig poop.
Results of Search in PGPUB Production Database for: IN/"Boykin Allen": 5 applications.
PUB. APP. NO. Title
1 20080299021 SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SYNTHETIC FUELS
2 20080295390 SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SYNTHETIC FUELS
3 20080274022 COMBINED REACTOR AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SYNTHETIC FUELS
4 20080274017 SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SYNTHETIC FUELS
5 20080272030 METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SYNTHETIC FUELS
Damn and no Obama help.
Yeah...if no Ivy League graduates and Federal grant money were involved...it could’nt have happened....
“It’s worse than you think! He didn’t attend a government school! Gasp! “
“Wait! It gets even worse! He attended a Christian College! Oh no!!! “
This just gets better and better!
I hope he has his EPA, OSHA, dead sawgrass and all those other necessary permits ready when the Atlas Shrugged Crowd comes to close him down because he’s doing too good a job.
I had to laugh once when I was in Whole Foods (the grocery store our #2 son jokingly calls "Whole Paycheck") and saw, in their fresh fish dept. a sign for "Wild Caught Shrimp". I asked the man where the shrimp was caught, and he said the Gulf of Mexico.
My daddy used to shrimp near our Fish Camp, in the Mississipi Sound, and I grew up eating mud bugs every summer, since it was cheaper than Mama having to go to the store to buy meat. He even sold any excess he caught for about $.70/lb, and here it was, 40 years later, at $15.99 a lb.!!
Instead of his head being filled with human caused Global Warming nonsense, and the spectre of humans ruining the earth by overpopulation, he probably learned about good Stewardship of the resources God gives us.
There are several companies researching turning biomass into fuel. While some claim to be able to do it efficiently, I haven’t heard of anyone REALLY making a breakthrough.
*snort* It just occurred to me that we could see some 'stills' back in the woods doing the same thing, but without the permits. Instead of selling corn 'by the gallon', they're selling old tires and switchgrass, and still bypassing the 'revenuers'. ;o)
In today’s climate anyone who truly has a breakthrough will wisely not trumpet very much about it before things are in place. It would be counterproductive not to proceed relatively quietly before the time is ripe.
If these two truly have a breakthrough they are likely to be faced with forces determined to steal their technology, and, if they can’t steal it, block it.
Entrepreneurs Arise!
Entrepreneurs will be the saving grace of the United States of America. And this is where BHObama gets it ALL WRONG.
I again make the allegation that BHObama either failed U.S. History courses or failed to take any while in school. He doesn’t have a clue about how this great Nation was conceived in liberty . . . to allow a man or several men to start up their own company based on their ideas to make the ideas of others “better” or “more cost effective” or more “user friendly” or simply because their idea was unique among other ideas.
Take the Automobile Industry for an early example. Take the Computer industry for a later example. All started out as small manufacturers in the Entrepreneurial Spirit of the USofA.
THIS is what BHObama and his elitist, entitlement-minded supporters do not comprehend. AND this is why I support having the National Black Republican Association become a moving force in the RNC and the Republican Party. Most of those Black Republicans are businessmen and many are entrepreneurs. They should be the “face” of the Republican Party to minority voters. Not because they’re Black, but because they’re successful Blacks who know what hard work achieves. Because they’re Black and they took their idea and created their own company instead of being Black and just sitting around waiting for the big yellow bus to drive them from their waterlogged home to higher ground.
If Katrina did nothing else, it exposed the attitude of entitlement among SOME Blacks. If the Pres__ency of Obama has done nothing else, it has exposed the thoughtless bias of many in the Black Community. Thank goodness for the National Black Republican Association to offset the entitlement minded and the thoughtless biased Blacks.
Disclaimer: I am not Black and as far as I know, have no Black Ancestry. But I have a lot of Entrepreneurial Ancestry.
Kudos to these guys for their hard work and dedication, but obviously neither they nor the reporter have been reading the bio-tech news lately.
They are not the only company nor the first company making bio-tech diesel fuel. In fact there are dozens if not hundreds of companies out there that will sell you off the shelf bio-diesel fuel production setups.
I would be somewhat surprised if their process is not already patented or at least already in use by several other companies.
One such machine, called the GEM, mounts on a semi trailer frame and consumes 2 tons of garbage, tires and road kill a day in a pyrolitic process. It is set up to produce electricity, but switching over to producing bio-diesel would be a simple task. You can buy it delivered for $850,000.00.
Want something cheaper? for $10,000.00 you can buy a unit that sits in your back yard and makes ethanol or diesel for your car. It is a bit more fussy about feedstock, but it comes with an extra long fueling hose for your convenience.
Actualy no, they are not opposed by many of the entities you name.
There are hundreds of millions of dollars of state, federal and private grant money out there. The Departments of Defense and Energy are spending billions on bio-technology.
British Petroleum (BP), just invested millions more into bio-technologies. Several other oil companies are also investing. If oil companies do not invest in bio-technologies today, they risk losing out as we move from an oil based economy to a bio-tech based economy.
General Motors has been investing millions in bio-tech companies also, up until the crash. Big ag is also pushing hard for more bio-tech investments. Some livestock feeders are opposing it, but they should not be as it is not bio-tech that has been crowding their profit margins.
Big envirowacko fundraisers I will give you. Many of them despise bio-technology.
With all due respect:
If the Boykins attended Bayside in Daphne and later Huntingdon College, they are not rednecks or if they are they are not your CMT redneck wedding variety.
Bayside has been a good private school for many years and Huntingdon runs around 30K per year tuition and dorm.
The eastern shore of Mobile is rather posh now...not Bay Minette which remains fairly true country but Daphne, Montrose, Fairhope and Point Clear to Weeks bay is all pretty snazzy and very pricey.
used to be more cuntry back in my day though..70s
were I to actually retire and hang out one day ...very unlilkely...that part of the world is my target.
southern...very...and beautiful and good food and traditional
but a house on the bay in the Point Clear area is now only accessible for folks with 10 million and up net worth
maybe a camp on Fish river but they ain’t cheap either
my dad rented the home that adjoined the Grand Hotel yacht club in 1974 for 350 dollars a month....i bet that house is now worth 2-4 million
anyhow...good for these guys....from their earnest efforts to my F250’s Powerstroke tank
Excellent place to live. Sheee...don’t tell everyone.
My comment was meant as a satire. I’m well aware of the area and the fine folks who live there.
Was that a Freudian slip ? ;-)
i got zero action at fairhope high
now....foley hs was different
judge’s daughter was my girlfriend
man, she was smoking
many a night parking at Magnolia Springs-Weeks bay
bonfires.....Dazed and Confused, I lived it albeit a couple of years earlier (1975)
Lucky you. I missed all the action.
From your post I can tell that you have never had the pleasure of trying to get such entities to deal honestly with an inventor.
Actually such entities will almost always try to steal better ideas from inventor/entrepreneurs on the theory that you will not be able to afford to do anything about it and, as explained to me forty years ago by an old oil field supervisor who came up with some terrific inventions, if you can catch up with them after years of litigation they don’t give a **** because by then they will have made so much money off what they stole that they will pay a small part of it as the cost of doing business. The men that they put in charge of dealing with whether or not to adopt disruptive technology, 99% of the time, decide against it because, and this is a quote from one such individual: “the industry isn’t going that way.” Even if some such person should see the benefit in such technology, in such a large operation he has no incentive to be honest with and reward an inventor and every incentive to steal the technology and make his mark with it if he can.
You may recall the story of the man from Rockville who came up with the vacuum windshield wiper. A movie has just been made about the way that Ford screwed him over. And you also no doubt have heard the famous tale of Sears and the socket wrench.
If things were rosily true as you say we would not be in the situation and, any way, the notion that we will inevitably transition to biofuels is a fantasy and has been a typical governmental choice to proceed in an utterly wrong direction. In the meantime, because of all those grants and tax breaks we have assiduously avoided the breakthrough technologies in oil itself and the development of oil production that would have prevented us from ever getting into the situation that we’re in.
Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished..... If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me..... This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....
We may have found John Galt — or, at least, one of his cousins.
Hope the federales and the oil boys don’t find him. If they do, he’s broke or a dead man or both!
What about “Peak Tire”?!!
Your back?
Sweet
Yea, I hope there’s no endangered field mice in the vicinity.
In and out. Not much time to FReep................
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