I'd like to know just how much energy the process uses to make the "fake crude oil" vs. how much energy the oil would produce when burned.
The article talks about it.
The Missouri plant will need to spend $15 a barrel to turn turkey waste into oil, compared with about $13 a barrel for small exploration and production companies and $5 for a major oil company, he said.
The trade off is not that it produces cheap oil, etc,. but that it will produce useable oil at a price that will allow mass bio-waste products to be disposed of in ways that may help the energy reserves of this nation rather than stinking up landfills.
The amount of waste material stuck into landfills every year is the equivalent of 18,000 Eiffel Towers, (circa 1988 when I deliverd this speech for my second Toastmaster speech). I suggested that recycling to preserve our countryside from landfill-itis was worth the cost of recycling. Now if we can give OPEC the finger as well then we have a tax free dividend!
Eat Sand Osama!