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To: blanknoone
Wha'? Y'mean, this?
Anything into Oil
by Brad Lemley
Gory refuse, from a Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage, Missouri, will no longer go to waste. 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.
...what about this?
Going Nuts For A Hydrogen-fuelled Future
February 2000
Looking for the fuel of the future? There's one in every bite. Turkey, the world's biggest producer of hazelnuts, burns 250,000 tonnes of the shells every year as waste. If, instead, it burnt them in a controlled environment with restricted oxygen, it could extract 6000 tonnes of hydrogen - enough to allow a thousand prototype hydrogen-fuelled BMWs to travel 32,500 kilometres each.

46 posted on 07/31/2004 3:27:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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To: SunkenCiv

The first one, by the title I cited, is the one I was talking about. The second one does not seem that promising. Fueling about 50k cars is no big deal, and that is at full scale. Hazelnut shells are not the future.


109 posted on 07/31/2004 7:37:53 PM PDT by blanknoone (Kerry is Bin Laden's Man, Bush is Mine.)
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