you don’t find it ridiculous that said opportunity exists?
I totally get that looking the client straight in the eye and asking “what the fuck were you thinking?” isn’t always the right approach…but if you don’t make it clear just how far they missed by, they won’t truly appreciate your work when you manage to salvage some portion of their harvest.
As I said, wet baling has been explored here. Pretty sure there are even folks who reckon they can (have) made it work (hexane extraction?) who have contributed.
However, the general consensus is “fuck no!” from most extractors…so finding someone who has played this game and is willing to play it again is mission critical before committing imo.
Same for frozen biomass.
“No, I don’t want to store 400T of frozen material while I chew through it at 1T a day”…”I might consider it if YOU pay for storage” would certainly be my guess for most frequent response for frozen material. So sorting out an extraction partner (first) there also seems advisable.
exactly!
freezing biomass in a panic/as an afterthought seldom leads to freezing it correctly…and extracting incorrectly frozen material is not on my list of fun things to do.
Freezing or wet bailing both rule out (trivial) extraction with ethanol, which is arguably still the most common extraction solvent…
Freeze drying works…but finding 3rd party freeze drying for 400T seems unlikely given your timeline