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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board February 7, 2008 Approved April 3, 2008 Norwood asks about the cost of a pellet stove [to burn their product. ] Hanks replies $1 , 500 to $2, 000 . The discussion shifts to biodeisel . Mention was made of the Town of Chapel Hill using biodiesel in their buses, but they do not. They use low sulfur diesel fuel . Vickers asks if you plan to set up as a competition with Piedmont with the biodiesel or expanding their operation. ter Horst states that we have talked for a while on different scenarios of whether we would hire them as a consultant or consider a franchise but we plan on working with them . Vickers asks with the landfill gas what do you plan to do, convert that to biodiesel or forming pellets or it' s a combined mixture of whatever energy resources can be used together . ter Horst states that we would like to use electricity to run pumps and heat to dry the biomass to compact to make the pellets . The heat would heat the vegetable oil to accelerate the biodiesel reaction. If there is more heat, we can recover more methanol from the biodiesel making process . Norwood states that you guys said you want to be educated -- forget Eubanks Rd . idered the competition for resources that you are Grunwald asks if you have cons going to be trying to purchase . Have you tried to buy sawdust in Orange County? Hanks states that we have found several wood companies that have people come up it in their trucks . They give it away .and dump Grunwald notes that they' re not in the loop with the horse barns . Pollock notes there is a lot of interest in capturing carbon credits and reducing the county' s carbon footprint among governments in Orange County and the University, but what if there is no way to get a facility to work on Eubanks Road, where would you do this . Vickers notes that the County has given up on siting a landfill and has a hard time siting anything to do with waste . 4