[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!

[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!

[Britton J Wingfield]

This looks neat.

Experiments at the Philadelphia thermal depolymerization plant have converted heavy crude oil, shale, and tar sands into light oils, gases, and graphite-type carbon. "When you refine petroleum, you end up with a heavy solid-waste product that's a big problem," Riordan says. "This technology will convert these waste materials into natural gas, oil, and carbon. It will fit right into the existing infrastructure."

[zeugma]

I'm not a dupe nazi, but this article is here. There is some good stuff on that thread.