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Thermal Depolymerization!

Changing World Technologies, Inc. is an energy and environmental service company that provides funding and management expertise to its joint ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries. Our mission is to identify, introduce and commercialize environment-friendly energy technologies to the international marketplace. Our company’s products and services are aimed at providing energy independence, ensuring a better future for industry, business, engineering and science throughout the world.
CWT is the owner and developer of processes that convert industrial waste and low-value streams into fuels, oils, gases and carbons, with no hazardous emissions into the environment.
Go to www.changingworldtech.com for the company details. A great article on the process can be found at http://www.discover.com/may_03/featoil.html

(the links may be old)

These guys had problems getting started. Bad quality control on the part of construction contractors at their large scale operation. They also ran into gubmint interference when the diesel they produced was put into a higher tax category.

The technology is out there to turn municipal landfill materials into enviable sources of fuel.

Ruefully

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The discovery article link is dead (sorry).

A bit more information on Thermal Depolymerization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

pointers to the Carthage, Mo Butterball plant operation.

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Thermal Depolymerization!

The only problem with thermal depolymeriztion is that it takes lots of energy to get it done. That means more electrical plants (hopefully nuclear). Think about it this way though, what if for the cost of building some nuclear plants in every state, we could mine all of the old landfills, convert all municipal sewage, and convert any new garbage and unwanted organic waste into petroleum? I'd say it's a win-win scenario.