Workshops with David Blume

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More information about the workshops follows this schedule, below.

Two-Day Workshops

Normal, Illinois - Illinois State University Campus February 14-15, 2009 $267 (Near Champaign, Decatur, Springfield, Peoria, Pontiac and two hours south of Chicago) Add to Cart

More two-day workshops are being scheduled around the U.S. Sign up on our mailing list in the right-hand column of this page to be notified as they are scheduled.

One-Day Workshops

A series of workshops sponsored by the American Corn Growers Association.

(includes a complimentary membership in the ACGA)

Coralville, Iowa (Iowa City) January 15, 2009, $149 Info & Registration

Austin, Texas January 31, 2009, $149 Info & Registration

Lincoln, Nebraska TBA in early March, $149

Olympia, Washington TBA in early March, $149

**Why should you attend Dave Blume's Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Workshops?**

The era of cheap fuel is over, and the profitability of small-scale alcohol production is skyrocketing! With his new book completed, Dave is beginning to teach full-day workshops in alcohol production and car/equipment conversion. The goal of these workshops is to give citizens, government, and business people a deep introductory immersion in the amazing benefits of appropriate-scale alcohol production and use.

The Alcohol Can Be a Gas workshop is for: anyone who wants to make fuel for themselves or as a small business, farmers looking for new, more profitable ways to use their land, mechanics who want to start doing alcohol conversions, activists who want to start driver-owned alcohol stations in their neighborhoods, experimental aircraft pilots who want to stop using expensive leaded Avgas, anyone who owns a high-performance/race vehicle that needs high-octane fuel, and anyone who is disgusted every time they fill their tank with gasoline or diesel.

Those looking to find their place in the renewable energy boom will find many profitable opportunities from which to choose. As the production of petroleum continues to wane, integrated alcohol fuel production will be necessary to provide our communities with a soft energy landing, local food security and robust employment.

This is your chance to learn the subject from the author of the comprehensive book on the subject and get your questions answered in person.

Partial worktrade positions may be offered for each workshop, where you help with various chores associated with putting on the event, such as registration, selling books, working on room set-up, beverages, driving Dave around town when he is doing pre class publicity, and lunch set-up at some courses. A limited number of worktrade positions are available for helping promote the event working with regional organizers. For more information on worktrade, write to info@alcoholcanbeagas.com

One-Day versus Two-Day Alcohol Fuel Workshops

Dave teaches both one-day and two-day workshops. The two-day workshops are far more in-depth, and cover the full curriculum in the course outline you can download from this page. It's very thorough and intensive. If you are planning on going into business or seriously interested in every step of the process from production through establishing a fuel station this is the right workshop for you. Subjects are covered at a high level of detail with a lot of illustration and photos from actual producers, equipment and vital information not available anywhere else.

The one-day workshops are more economical but generally cover largely the same territory. By necessity, they will not cover all items in the outline. This is a very good overview of the different aspects of the alcohol fuel universe. At the beginning of the one-day workshop, participants will be polled as to what aspects to cover, and Dave will tailor the day to focus on what participants specify. So, for instance, many one-day workshops are being done in conjunction with farm groups like the American Corn Growers Association and will focus on issues relating to farmers as producers while addressing things like equipment conversion and fuel stations at a lower level of detail.

Download the outline for the workshop.

Customized Workshops

Dave has presented custom one-day workshops for entrepreneur groups considering alcohol plant building, municipalities wanting to use waste to make fuel; fleet manager workshops for distribution and engine conversion, regional governments (both domestic and international) for policy design, and community groups organizing farmer-consumer cooperatives.

Here's a bit more information on benefits for specific groups.

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