Sunergy, Inc. (fka SNEY)

[krzyivan]

I'm a lurker and have been here since November (and loving it now!) but a gallon of just about any material weighs more than a pound (a gallon of water is ~8lbs). I don't know the weight of the black sands but one gallon of regular dry sand is roughly 9.6lbs. 50 gallons times 9.6lbs is 480lbs, so that works out to a little less than 1/4 short-ton of regular quartz sand per barrel. So a safe estimate is that each barrel will contain roughly $1900 worth of product. So just over 4 barrels would be 1 ton.

Beyond this I don't know what to tell you, but I highly doubt it'll cost $4000 to ship and process 4 barrels of black sand.

Since I don't know the density and weight of the black sands versus run-of-the-mill sand, I can't be more specific, but specific-gravities don't lie. It'll probably be heavier per gallon than my estimates. :)