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We consume about 1.3 million tons of oil per day in the USA. Although I think that conversion of waste is a good idea does anyone have any idea how much organic waste will have to be converted to establish a distributive market for the product of such waste?

An operating plant based on the CWT-TP process has been constructed in Carthage, MO next to a turkey-processing slaughterhouse. The CWT-TP facility processes approximately 200 t/d of turkey offal and grease continuously, 7 days a week. Included in the feedstock are the offal, bones, heads, feet, blood and feathers from the turkeys. The plant produces about 500 bbl/d of API 40+ oil together with about 7 t/d of carbon, 8 t/d of mineral fertilizer, 12 t/d of a nitrogen-rich fertilizer, and a medium Btu gas that is used internally.

Looks like the plant in Carthage running at full capacity (200 tons a day of turkey waste products) can produce 500 barrels a day of light crude in addition to the solids and methane. Not an amazing amount, but imagine every poultry factory, slaughterhouse, and pig and dairy farm with a similar factory. All that waste being reduced dramatically and all the oil being produced consistantly. Will Saudi Arabia be broke in 5 years? No. But we may see a dramatic decline in imported oil with 10 years or so.