Posted on 06/09/2004 11:39:14 AM PDT by ckilmer
CARTHAGE, Mo. -- A Long Island entrepeneur's dream of building hundreds of garbage- to-oil factories is inching closer to reality, as a prototype plant in this rural town has begun selling more than 100 gallons of fuel oil per day made from scraps of slaughtered turkeys.
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That's all well and good. How many turkeys per day would it take to replace all imported oil?
But animal scraps are only one potential source of "fuel" for Changing World's oil-making process.....
Shades of Soylent Green. ROFL
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"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could FLY!"
the next thing they're working on according to the article is auto scraps. like tires and plastic parts
More than we can eat.
It's a start, and uses garbage that would otherwise use up resources to dispose of.
Hmm.. Too bad Changing World Technologies isn't publicly traded. I'd buy some of their stock.
How about we just cut out the middle man and make a car that runs on turkeys. lol
I think the article has a mistake. Should the output read 100 barrels instead of 100 gallons!!??
An original article from May, 2003, on this process read like this...
...Each day 200 tons of turkey offal will be carted to the first industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into various useful products, including 600 barrels of light oil....
beats me. the article--or another like it-- claims that oil imports could be killed by changing all all animal offal to oil but I don't think this is right. I've read earlier articles that said if all agricultural waste were converted to oil then all oil imports could be killed.
that sounds more like it.
basically the idea is that anything carbon based can be turned oil. that includes everything from agricultural wasted to industrial waste to human & animal garbage and sewage.
beats me. the article--or another like it-- claims that oil imports could be killed by changing all all animal offal to oil but I don't think this is right. I've read earlier articles that said if all agricultural waste were converted to oil then all oil imports could be killed.
that sounds more like it.
basically the idea is that anything carbon based can be turned oil. that includes everything from agricultural wasted to industrial waste to human & animal garbage and sewage.
beats me. the article--or another like it-- claims that oil imports could be killed by changing all all animal offal to oil but I don't think this is right. I've read earlier articles that said if all agricultural waste were converted to oil then all oil imports could be killed.
that sounds more like it.
basically the idea is that anything carbon based can be turned oil. that includes everything from agricultural wasted to industrial waste to human & animal garbage and sewage.
Was in Discover Magazine last year.
... a great start, but even if they can get a profit of one dollar a gallon, the $31 Million startup will be paid back in, oh... about 850 years.. ( not counting interest )
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