[kevkrom]

Look up “Changing World Technologies”.

The basic science is sound - you use high heat and pressure to take some form of bio waste and turn it into pure water, a synthetic petroleum, and everything else can be centrifuged out as minerals or mineral oxides.

The problem is in the implementation - CWT failed because they were unable to make their plant scale up to a useful production level without constant complaints from nearby businesses and residences of foul odors being emanated from the plant.

[wbarmy]

“Changing World Technologies” failed because they were unable to make their plant scale up to a useful production level without constant complaints from nearby businesses and residences of foul odors being emanated from the plant.

Their plant in Kansas City used turkey parts as the basic biomass, from the Perdue plant, and people complained of the smell of roasting turkeys. Not noxious at all.