Turning Turkey Guts into Oil? (Comments Please..)

Discover News ^ | Mama Shawna

[Mama Shawna]

This is my first post with a link, I hope it works. Just want comments on this article from knowledgable freepers.

[isthisnickcool]

Link no workie and I don't see how it could be fixed. Please put another quarter in the machine and try agin.

[evolved_rage]

Turkey may have guts, but they cost more than $15 billion...

[Mama Shawna]

ok,the link didn't work, lets try this: http:/www.discover.com/may_03/featoil.html

Thanks for your patience...
Mama

[gitmo]

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. While no one plans to put people into a thermal depolymerization machine, an intimate human creation could become a prime feedstock.

Saddam Hussein could have used this instead of those Debris Shredders.

[Wonder Warthog]

This article is already posted here on FR (somewhere!). The topic is very interesting, and sounds like pretty good science and engineering is involved. If it works as they say, it could be a real help with the "garbage disposal" problem that haunts major cities.

[dts32041]

Its People Its people. Soylent Green

[Pikachu_Dad]

Sounds like complete, utter, total balderdash to me.


A Chemical Engineer.

[mrsmith]

Their Patent

I think the process will be worthwhile for some waste streams.

[Thud]

I doubt this one's claims for energy, but it might be a great way to dispose of agricultural waste, in particular slaughterhouse and feed pen waste.

[William Terrell]

But, evidently there is an experimental plant in place and working, yielding just what is claimed. Hard to argue with an observable demonstration. What makes it balderdash?

[em2vn]

I live in Carthage and believe me there is another side to the story. Immigrants both legal and illegal are the workers in the turkey plant. In a quest for a better life they have driven a once beautiful little city in the Ozarks to the edge of collapse. Real estate has been swallowewd up for rental property and allowed to fall into disrepair since the immigrants will live in just about anything.Wages have fallen with the arrival of the immigrants. One local manfacturer fired its entire hourly workforce and replaced it with immigrants or people who would work for the very low wage scale offered to the immigrants.
Ten years ago our school system had thirty per cent of its student body below the poverty line. The firgure is now seventy per cent.
On several occasions the INS has raided local manfacturing plants and taken into custody the entire production crew from a shift.
The slum lords are loving the set up. They will rent a single family, two bedroom dwelling for $450 a month and one hundred dollars a head for anyone not identified as a family member at the initial renting. Twelve hundrded dollars is a common take for a two bedroom hovel.
The hospital's resources are being taxed by non-paying immigrants and the police are swamped with DUIs and other driving offenses by immigrants who are for the most part illegals.
A final point. The turkey plant makes the entire city smell like a turkey processing plant. It just plain stinks.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

True
And it only takes over 100 pounds of oil to
get 38 pounds of oil.

[the_doc]

Sounds like complete, utter, total balderdash to me.

A Chemical Engineer.

Well, it looks pretty sound to me.

(A former Chemical Engineer.)

[lilylangtree]

"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. While no one plans to put people into a thermal depolymerization machine, an intimate human creation could become a prime feedstock. "There is no reason why we can't turn sewage, including human excrement, into a glorious oil"

Now, finally now, I understand why so many medicos want CLONING.