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<DIV>In a message dated 10/20/2011 2:04:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rstanley@legacyfound.org writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>DD: Dan Dimiduk comments </DIV>
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face=Arial>Dan,
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<DIV>That kind of splash news just makes me smile: The 'bigger is better'
approach for supplying global markets flops every time when it comes to
meeting local solid fuel needs: Why; its just simple economics and sources:
The resources are local, the skills and technology are designed
around bthe local community and the product is competitive locally.
Thousands aroudn the world are producing their own agroresidue based
briquette fuel at selling price to the family of about 6 cents per person per
day and they are gaining employment and skills in the process. It can be
replicated anywhere there is sustained human habitation: no international
cargo ships; no trucks no centralised plant. No centralised ownership,
just lots of small entrepreneurs and trainers doing their own thing on site in
their own regions with their own versions, feeding their own families and the
rest of the network with their insights in the process. This kind of
market based briquette production and training and local equiipent supply is
active in about 46 nations now.
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<DIV>Don't give up Dan. As the all those cargo ship and truck fuel prices
inevitably increase, it will only get better.</DIV>
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<DIV>Richard Stanley</DIV>
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<DIV>DD What gets me is that even though I am listed in the phone book under
"Lot clearing and leveling" I have not been approached by these people to
market my wood. If you visit their site you will find that they are more of a
wood location service. They are brokers who take a percentage of the transaction
to hook up big users such as utilities with big producers. </DIV>
<DIV> I wonder how long a producer is tied to their
distribution contract. Typically in these situations, businesses use the service
to find a customer and then later terminate the contract and go around the
middle man. There is a big new pellet producer in south Mississippi who teamed
up with a company in Europe to expand and ship pellets to the European markets.
As large as that contract is, I doubt they used a middle man to put it together.
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