[gogogodzilla]

True, but I wonder how much of the cost can be recovered simply by tying this into a waste management company.

After all, everyone pays to have their trash disposed of. The Thermal Depolymerization corporation could charge the same rate to collect the trash... and then sell the oil generated from that trash.

I wonder if that would help in recouping the additional cost of generating the oil.

[starbase]

I wonder if that would help in recouping the additional cost of generating the oil.

From the link provided by DarkKnight, the owner of the company boils the losses down to not getting the tax credit they expected combined with having to pay for the garbage they use which they thought they would be paid to dispose of (a swing of $76 bucks per ton they didn't expect to spend)

From the article:

Appel and his colleagues had assumed turkey waste would cost nothing because they expected the federal government to put a ban on feeding animal waste to animals. They estimated that processing plants would pay them $24 a ton to take away the offal. But that didn't happen, and Appel now is paying $52 a ton for animal waste, he said. Appel also had high hopes that he would get a $1-a-gallon biofuel tax credit for production costs, or about $42 per barrel. Congress did pass the tax credit, but the definition of biofuel excluded Appel's technology.

The owner is talking about building a new plant in Ireland of which he says:

In Ireland, Appel said, the losses would be reversed because processing plants would pay him to take the waste and the government has a tax credit.

Maybe they'll work it out eventually.

[Beagle8U]

"After all, everyone pays to have their trash disposed of."

??? When did that start?

I haven't paid for garbage service for 25yrs. I burn everything but glass, and you can bury that.