[DuncanWaring]

Here's a better idea: Thermal Depolymerization.

Makes use of existing waste. Don't have to grow anything new

[ExSoldier]

"Unlike other solid-to-liquid-fuel processes such as cornstarch into ethanol, this one will accept almost any carbon-based feedstock. If a 175-pound man fell into one end , he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water."

"SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!! Next they'll be breeding us like cattle!"

"While no one plans to put people into a thermal depolymerization machine, an intimate human creation could become a prime feedstock. "There is no reason why we can't turn sewage, including human excrement, into a glorious oil..."

Now that's a load of......

[nathanbedford]

Is this a publicly traded company?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Anything Into Oil 1may03
"We will be able to make oil for $8 to $12 a barrel," says Paul Baskis, the inventor of the process.

Very interesting, and nothing to say that it couldn't use algae as its feedstock. We could grow algae in the desert and export oil!

What word on this that's less than a year old??