Anything into oil!

Discover magazine online ^ | May 2003 | Brad Lemley

[AlextheWise1]

If this is true, not a new cold fusion myth, and can be scaled it changes well... everything

[Consort]

We've been there, done this story once or twice already.

[Windcatcher]

One thing we do well here in Philly...is refine oil. There are refineries stretching for upwards of 20 to 30 miles, from Philly all the way down to the Delaware state line.

Like my high school Physics teacher used to say (paraphrasing):

"Don't worry about a war with the Russians. Don't worry about getting drafted. We're a primary target. If a war starts, we're dead. They might miss the Navy yard, but they'll make SURE to hit all the refineries, all the way down to Marcus Hook. Half the county will be vaporized."

[petuniasevan]

If a 175-pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water.

Fremen Deathstill!

[happydogdesign]

"There is no reason why we can't turn sewage, including human excrement, into a glorious oil," says engineer Terry Adams, a project consultant.

If it works for bull excrement, Washington, D.C. will put the Middle East out of business!

[Windcatcher]

If it gets rid of that STINK between the airport and the Girard Point Bridge, I'm all for it.

That smell when you land in Philly is *not* the entire city. I promise. Whoever decided to put a treatment plant there should be beaten.

[rellimpank]

--I'm not going to buy stock in this company quite yet--

[capitan_refugio]

Let me tell you, I read that article in the hardcopy version of the magazine. The spread gegan with a two-page gatefold of turkey guts and other parts. It would have made you heave, just to see it.

Most anything organic can be rendered into oils. But at what cost - that's the rub!

[capitan_refugio]

That's why it's called "science fiction"

[Cold Heat]

Fremen Deathstill!

Yes, we can take their water and convert them into Soy-lent Green.

[capitan_refugio]

A few decades ago (about 1915 +/-), the city of Milwaukee had a sewage problem. That's when one of their engineers developed "Milorganite" fertilizer.

Milorganite is people!

[ffusco]

If a 175-pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water.

............And I would yield 30 pounds of oil, 6 pounds of gas, 6 pounds of minerals and 98 pounds of water.

My Dog would produce 19 pounds of oil.....

My Cat would yield 3 pounds of oil!

[ffusco]

Human feces.

[capitan_refugio]

I credit wirestripper as my inspiration for my previous post on this thread!!!

[ffusco]

.......I wonder how much oil he would yield? Hmmmm.

[Cold Heat]

I have used that Milorganite.

Good stuff! (Grows really big tomatoes)

[ffusco]

Any one know how much Tim Robbins weighs?

[ffusco]

What was that movie a few years back where undesiresble dinner guests are buried under enormous tomato plants? Jeremy Previn was in it.

[Cold Heat]

I would think he is mostly gas. (toxic gas)

[ffusco]

Micheal Moore could heat a small mid-western town with this new technology!