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To: presidio9

The Japanese said they could extract oil from steer manure. Maybe we could rig our sewage treatment plants to extract oil from human turds.


20 posted on 07/20/2006 11:23:16 AM PDT by Pine Mtn. Maverick
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To: Pine Mtn. Maverick

Plants already exist that produce power from methane gas. I once built a miniature replica when I was in high school, for a science project. It does work. Its just not efficient.

You need a vast garbage dump to power that kind of thing. And jokes about New York or San Francisco or Hollywood aside, it's just not a realistic possibility at the current stage of affairs.

You can produce oil from a lot of stuff. The Japanese and Israelis, the usual hi-tech suspects, have had ways for years. But they aren't efficient, and there's no obvious or clear way to make them more efficient.


27 posted on 07/20/2006 11:26:44 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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