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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. (GRNO)
GRNO 0.00Dec 29 4:00 PM EST

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To: Charles A. King who wrote (8696)2/3/1998 9:28:00 PM
From: John Brockman  Read Replies (1) of 13091
 
Charles/Ron

Actually, what was confusing me was that if the unit converts 275 gph of feedstock into 200 gph of diesel (Thanks Charles, I forgot the 275 was feedstock not diesel) and pumps it into the storage tanks and it takes 30 hours to fill a 6000 gallon semi tanker truck from the storage tanks, the rate of diesel going into the storage tank is the same going out of the storage tanks on the trucks. I thought that the tanker would load the diesel at a much faster rate than 200 gallons per hour. I did stop for gas tonight and timed it (yes I do need to get a life) and it took 1 minute 30 seconds for 10 gallons or, at that rate, 400 gallons per hour. I would have guessed that a 6000 gallon semi tank truck would take 6 hours or less to "fill up" with diesel. What I am alluding to is that if SC gives Bill permission to turn the unit up to 1000 gph we are going to need a whole lot more storage because by the time one truck has loaded 6000 gallons, the unit is going to have converted 30000 gallons of feedstock into diesel.

Even if the storage tanks do not have pumps to pump the diesel into the trucks and depends on gravity, I would think the hose would be 5" in diameter at a minimum allowing a large volume of diesel at a time to be loaded. In addition to gravity pulling the diesel out of the tanks wouldn't the weight of the rest of the diesel in the storage tank increase the rate it flows out?

I know this is trivial and probably not worthy of this much space but I often get stuck in the details. I apologize for dragging this issue out.

John

PS This new feature to review your message before it goes public is neat. I also like the spell check (it says feedstock is feed stock).
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