Now here is an amazing technology:
Turkeys turned into fuel
Here is the Discover article that is referred to:
Anything into Oil
Here is an excerpt from the Discover article:
...thermal depolymerization...waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products...high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing.
Just converting all the U.S. agricultural waste into oil and gas would yield the energy equivalent of 4 billion barrels of oil annually. In 2001 the United States imported 4.2 billion barrels of oil.
...in Carthage, Missouri, about 100 yards from one of ConAgra Foods' massive Butterball Turkey plants, sits the company's first commercial-scale thermal depolymerization plant. The $20 million facility, scheduled to go online any day, is expected to digest more than 200 tons of turkey-processing waste every 24 hours.
"This plant will make 10 tons of gas per day, which will go back into the system to make heat to power the system," he says. "It will make 21,000 gallons of water, which will be clean enough to discharge into a municipal sewage system. Pathological vectors will be completely gone. It will make 11 tons of minerals and 600 barrels of oil, high-quality stuff, the same specs as a number two heating oil."
Just in case you are wondering..."number two heating oil" is the same as the number two diesel that I can burn in my 2003 VW Golf TDI. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Very, very cool!
Turkeys turned into fuel
Here is the Discover article that is referred to:
Anything into Oil
Here is an excerpt from the Discover article:
...thermal depolymerization...waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products...high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing.
Just converting all the U.S. agricultural waste into oil and gas would yield the energy equivalent of 4 billion barrels of oil annually. In 2001 the United States imported 4.2 billion barrels of oil.
...in Carthage, Missouri, about 100 yards from one of ConAgra Foods' massive Butterball Turkey plants, sits the company's first commercial-scale thermal depolymerization plant. The $20 million facility, scheduled to go online any day, is expected to digest more than 200 tons of turkey-processing waste every 24 hours.
"This plant will make 10 tons of gas per day, which will go back into the system to make heat to power the system," he says. "It will make 21,000 gallons of water, which will be clean enough to discharge into a municipal sewage system. Pathological vectors will be completely gone. It will make 11 tons of minerals and 600 barrels of oil, high-quality stuff, the same specs as a number two heating oil."
Just in case you are wondering..."number two heating oil" is the same as the number two diesel that I can burn in my 2003 VW Golf TDI. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Very, very cool!