[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.

[kevkrom]

Noxious enough to get the whole operation shut down.

Just putting it out there as something to consider with any of these technologies - you have to consider the environmental (as it really means, not it’s misuse for ecological) issues of things like sound, odor, eyesores, etc., as well as the raw technology and its outputs.