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To: Carry_Okie
I guess my concern is that the amount of energy needed to process the manure is more than it produces.

Absolutely nothing. But you are comparing bio-diesel with TDP; which are two totally and completely seperate processes. They literally have nothing in common, other than they can produce a fuel source.

Thermal De-Polymerization is a process in which just about any long hydrocarbon molecule is broken down into smaller molecules. Like in nature, the components are time, pressure and heat.

Biodiesels, on the other hand are usually fancy names for refined french fry oil. These are typically vegetable oil derivatives, which contain various ingredients for flavoring, preservatives and color. What these various 'ingredients' do, when used as a combustable fuel is something I cannot comment on; because I simply do not know.

However, chemically speaking, TDP uses the SAME ingredients that mother nature uses. The process is just sped up a few billion-fold.

116 posted on 04/13/2004 12:42:32 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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To: Hodar
I think you gave me a mixed and partial answer. Are you saying that the class of chemicals produced by TDP are the same brew of paraffins as are found in crude oil?
122 posted on 04/13/2004 12:50:12 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by politics.)
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