Could this be a solution to the energy problem? Having been a science fiction fan, I hope it does not work. How mundane... Hey, animal rights activists out there! Did you read this?
Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year
Gory refuse, from a Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage, Missouri, will no longer go to waste. Each day 200 tons of turkey offal will be carted to the first industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into various useful products, including 600 barrels of light oil.
In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can change almost anything into oil.
RE: virus: Oil and turkey guts
« Reply #1 on: 2003-04-18 17:30:42 »
Wow, man, I was just reading that! It's blowing my mind. My favorite part is this:
"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," says engineer Terry Adams, a project consultant. So the city of Philadelphia is in discussion with Changing World Technologies to begin doing exactly that. "
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Could this be a solution to the energy problem? Having been a science fiction fan, I hope it does not work. How mundane... Hey, animal rights activists out there! Did you read this?
Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year
Gory refuse, from a Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage, Missouri, will no longer go to waste. Each day 200 tons of turkey offal will be carted to the first industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into various useful products, including 600 barrels of light oil.
In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can change almost anything into oil.
This device couldn't solve the energy problem - you need energy to obtain the oil. What it could do (if it really works) is allow you to use electricity to obtain gas. The question then is, where do you get the electricity from? (nuclear power, wind, solar power, dams, coal...)Also, oil has uses in petrochemistry. We need it to make all those plastics.
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RE: virus: Oil and turkey guts
« Reply #5 on: 2003-04-22 17:04:55 »
It looked in the article as if the gas produced by the reaction would be used onsite to power the machine, and the oil and other products from the reactions would be shipped around for profit. Article said gas is expensive to ship, so it would be used on-site.
It wouldn't "solve" the energy crisis, but it would limit the need to find new petrochemicals, because we would continually reuse them.
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Re: virus: Oil and turkey guts
« Reply #6 on: 2003-04-22 17:17:02 »
Don't forget this line of the story Ouri:
"Thermal depolymerization, Appel says, has proved to be 85 percent energy efficient for complex feedstocks, such as turkey offal: "That means for every 100 Btus in the feedstock, we use only 15 Btus to run the process." He contends the efficiency is even better for relatively dry raw materials, such as plastics."
No device is 100% efficient, but I call 85% pretty good and an answer to many of the energy problems we face. After all, if only 15% of the turkey is needed for energy to run the machine, that leaves a lot of energy to spare. It is certainly better than tossing all that stuff (PVC, turkey ofal, dead bodies, plastic etc...), wouldn't you agree?
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> This device couldn't solve the energy problem - you need energy to > obtain the oil. What it could do (if it really works) is allow you to > use electricity to obtain gas. The question then is, where do you get > the electricity from? (nuclear power, wind, solar power, dams, coal...) > Also, oil has uses in petrochemistry. We need it to make all those > plastics. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! > Testez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail <http://fr.mail.yahoo.com>
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