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Pastimes : Plastics to Oil - Pyrolysis and Secret Catalysts and Alterna
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To: Steady_on who wrote (25131)5/27/2012 1:41:06 PM
From: jimmenkneeRead Replies (2) of 53574
 
The only fair way to assert a number is to attach numbers to particulars involved in the process.

1. Receipt of raw materials
2. Sorting and/or preparing raw materials to process
3. Processing raw materials to produce the output
4. Taking the output and transporting or storing until sold

So in JBI's case, you have 3 different facilities involved all with labor and overhead.

1. Direct/Indirect Labor
2. Utilities, equipment upkeep, building upkeep

The only thing offered against $10/barrel is 2 employees' labor costs at the processing site. That's silly on its face. One big example of head scratching is the overhead-- specifically the rent charges -- at the MRF.

e.g. let's say for the sake of discussion, the MRF rent is the average @ $9,000.00 per month. On a 30 day month that equates to $12.50 per hour. Let's assume the MRF can prepare 1 ton of plastic an hour. That would equate to the lease portion of the overhead adding $2.10/barrel to the CoGS assuming an 8lbs/gallon conversion.

Can the MRF receive, sort, prepare and shred 1 ton of plastic an hour? If not, at what rate can they?
How many employees are needed?
How much electricity, water, etc.?

If you want to be fair, that level of parsing is needed-- adding pieces and moving foward -- not using $10 and subtracting your way backwards IMHO

You never responded to this, which I think is fairer given you'll eventually have to account for the totality of costs:

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Care to try to engage in that discussion now?
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