Bring Alcohol to Florida

Hey D.Thomhas,

Please keep me posted on your projects!

Robby

hey thomas, thanks for the friends add. Looks like the florida group is growing rapidly! Hopefully we can turn it into something productive for us all. I have some big ideas for my own farm including several alternative energy strategies. Im in london until November, but would love to get together since were only about an hour apart sometime when i get back. Talk to you soon.

Hi,

I shoot business and event stuff, (PD 170) and edit (Final Cut Studio).
I have work on a movie where I learned alot about shooting, grip, and gaffer work. I am experience with event and video lighting.
I would like to get some some backers to put up funds for a program on cable about Alt energy (mostly photovoltaic, solar, and ethanol production). So I am putting together a proposal that I can use to solicit sponsors. It is months away though.
I am really hot about our current energy issues; I feel the whole group D and R's have really let the country down with all the power struggle BS. Anyone who voted for the "Bail Out" needs to not be reelected.

But to more important matters:
1. build a still
2. Power the boiler with Solar or Photo Voltaic
3. Create a series about it: Air it on PBS

yup ... you know smiley faces, pump up beat, show it after dinner before speakers ... yeah ... that kind of thing.

You're welcome!

Yes I have. Five years back you could find oil anywhere, but fewer and fewer people are eating out now because of the economy. Restaurants that would give me oil once a week are now down to once every two weeks. Some restaurants have gone out of business. In our area that's why I'm working with some local citrus farmers on putting in, jatropha the biodiesel tree.

I have looked at Pickens plan also. My theory on why Pickens is pushing Natural Gas is the fact that down deep he is still an oil man and probably owns the rights to much of the natural gas available. I don't disagree that natural gas is an alternative for short term but I believe that natural gas will run out eventually also.

Sorry I haven't been able to get back with you have been very busy working on my wife's car. I live in the Central Florida area on the East Coast around Titusville Kennedy space Center area. Yes, I been able to get some interest in growing jatropha's. My next-door neighbor has a horse Ranch of about 15 acres. We initially are going to try planting jatropha on their fence line. Since animals will not eat it this should make a living fence. We plan to collect all of the seed from the first crop and replant hopefully to have a couple of hundred to a thousand plants within a year or so. Have already had some interest from some of the local farmers. But of course, they are a bit skeptical of something new. The yield from the jatropha is is approximately 1 gallon of oil per tree and the trees can live up to 40 years with little more than rain water for irrigation and very little demand for fertilizer and would not compete with food crops thus eliminating the food versus fuel argument.