Posted on 06/09/2004 11:39:14 AM PDT by ckilmer
CARTHAGE, Mo. -- A Long Island entrepeneur's dream of building hundreds of garbage- to-oil factories is inching closer to reality, as a prototype plant in this rural town has begun selling more than 100 gallons of fuel oil per day made from scraps of slaughtered turkeys.
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The biggest problem in the telling of this companies' story is that it proves that oil is not always made from fossil based products. It is unlikely that reporters will ever connect the dots.
Regardless, it is time to start such ventures.
Payoff on the order of synfuels or solar panels...
////////// No that's not right. the process by which animal wastes are converted to oil is a process which immitates in real time the process by which oil was made from dinasaurs and cretaceus plants. all these plant and animals are based on long carbon chains that millions of years of heat and pressure have converted to short carbon chains or oil. "Changing world technologies" industrial plant employs a process called thermal depolymerization which creates enormous heat and pressure and breaks up long carbon chains into short carbon chains or oil. that heat and pressure also kills the mad cow virus
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Well, that's good to know. I was really worried there for a while!
WKRP reference...
I have a process which turns beans into natural gas...
What I'm wondering is what the capacity of the plant is, and did it cost actually 31 million to build, or are R&D costs also included?
From what I've read in the past, it certainly seems like a viable process.
Brand new technology is always expensive, and I expect the cost to go down, as more of these come online.
I suspect the mistake may be a couple of zeros. At $40 per barrel, this would be $4,000 per day GROSS. Costs of production not yet deducted. A $31 million dollar plant is a big investment for a gross revenue of $4,000 per day. At 5% interest, $31 million would earn you $4,305 NET per day.
Not so sure how this is paying for itself. Maybe costs will come down as they put up more plants. Or they are banking on future oil price increases.
The oil produced would be refined just the same as crude oil OPEC produces. I beleive it would run cleaner, though, which would be a nice enviornmental benefit as well.
Don't read extraneous stuff into this. Utilities may be privately owned only under tightly regulated circumstances.
Cost of waste transport and storage are being completely removed from the plant's expense column.
Wild ones can.
What I meant to ask, is that after it is produced, who would refine it, and how much would they charge? I am assuming that the plants producing the oil would not be the ones refining it.
No, that isn't the peak oil thesis anyway. We're running out of cheap oil. Another name for peak oil is peak easy.
When we run out of turkeys, we can use Michael Moore.
The oil produced is light sweet crude and can be used as is in the power plant in Carthage, from what I understand.
Ok. That's a good explanation, thanks.
After one tank of that the oil filter would be clogged and the spark plugs would be fouled. The vehicle wouldn't pass emissions anyway.
Not sure and don't know. My only point was that the oil produced could be used exactly the same as imported crude -- I know (much) more about the technology involved than I do about the oil business.
The first time this process was posted here, it was Tyson Foods setting up a pilot plant at one of their chicken processing facilities. Also, the city of Philadelphia was going to install one at their solid waste dump. If I remember correctly, the article was titled "Oil From Anything".
If we told the jihadists that we didn't want any of their oil, but instead we were there to harvest their bodies to make into oil, I think they'd change their tune faster than you can say "fill 'er up".
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