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Do you have a citation on the study or report that you refer to. From a cursory position this sounds too efficient unless I am missing something. It would seem to me that using the methane directly would be more efficient. How much additional organic material is converted to fuel after the process of methane production? Can methane production be enhanced? Interesting, nevertheless.

Go to their website and see the data. Trust me, if they were not truly able to do this, they would not be running a plant right at this moment commercially.

This isn't 100% effecient or even 90%, but it's enough that this will be profitable one day and will solve a lot of storage and removal expense from these animal processing plants. People seem to get it in their heads that this is just about the energy the plants can produce. It's also about landfill issues, waste storage and transport issues, and quality of life issues for those with these animal processing plants in their communities.

Carthage, MO expects to have half of their city power generated from this plant within a few years, and the turkey plant will save a ton of money not having to store or ship the waste products.

Here's a quick rundown on the Thermal Depolymerzation done at the Turkey Guts into oil program.

http://www.changingworldtech.com/pdf/NaturalGasTechConf2_11_04.pdf

These guys have gone from a pilot plant to a production plant. I just have not seen it expressed enough in various literature to believe it totally yet. But the pig manure thing sounds like an extremely similar project.

The upshot of all of this is turn organic garbage into minerals, water and oil. Any organic garbage. Tires, landfills, paper, animals...anything. The only changes in the process is how long to do the different stages and of course the mix of the output of water, minerals and oil. They were even talking about using this process for circuit boards. Gee, just talking about is exciting. Can you imagine a change in our culture if landfills could efficiently be turned into oil producers? How about sewage treatment plants? Those mounds of millions of tires?

Heck, I'm sounding like a commercial.

By the way, the pilot plant was turning turkey guts into oil for about $15 dollars/barrel and they think that a real production facility could do it for $7, and this oil is blonde and sweet, not black and full of other stuff (but I think that just may be the turkey guts).

Better stop here.

DK