Oil forever?
Hmm...
Anything into Oil
Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year
By Brad Lemley
... the thermal depolymerization process, or TDP. The process is designed to handle almost any waste product imaginable, including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, harbor-dredged muck, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper-pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil-refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores. According to Appel, waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products, all valuable and environmentally benign: high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing.
... 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.
Anything into Oil
Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year
By Brad Lemley
... the thermal depolymerization process, or TDP. The process is designed to handle almost any waste product imaginable, including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, harbor-dredged muck, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper-pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil-refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores. According to Appel, waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products, all valuable and environmentally benign: high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing.
... 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.
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By using the depolymerization process you can turn anything into oil FLAVIN
Appearance wise that is.
Okay now that I've finished reading it .... it sounds too good to be true.
nah, i was at a meeting about it today. it's real, and it's happening, although slowly.
the main goal is finding ways to produce energy w/o releasing CO2 that's already bound up in fossil fuels. it's not nearly as bad to produce fuels from plant and animal matter, since they're floating CO2 storage anyway.
this has been happening for a while, but it's not until recently that they found a way to do the entire process w/o chemicals and in an entirely sealed system. that's a huge leap forward.
give them some time and they'll drive the costs down, and everyone's happy.
just pop 'em in and resell 'em on the market to chemical companies.
scientists are doing some really kickass stuff lately with fuel sources.
Question: (I'm not sure of the answer.) How much of a problem is Africa from a terrorist stand point? And if they are, where do they get their financial backing? Just curious.
On-topic:
That's the coolest thing I've read in a while. Why is the gubbmint not going apeshit over this and throwing bouceaup fish at it?
That's the coolest thing I've read in a while. Why is the gubbmint not going apeshit over this and throwing bouceaup fish at it?
they are throwing lots of money at it. they're also throwing tons of money at about 100 other ways to get energy from sources outside the middle east. it's just you don't hear about it all that often. (not sure why)
there's a farm here in MN that powers the entire dairy farm, and some of the town, off of cow shit. the guy makes more money selling electricity to the city than he does off milk some years. but you never really hear about it.
they can make 100% compatitble diesel fuel from soybeans, but you don't hear about that often either. it's going on, the govt. is actually doing quite a bit to help the process, but until it starts creeping into your everyday life, it's not happening at all in most people's minds.
right now it's all in the beta testing phase. it'll probably take 10-15 years before the tech coming out today has a shot at real world installations and usage.
It sounds like they have tried putting all sorts of stuff through their miracle machine. (Kind of reminds me of the Malcom in the Middle where they throw a bunch of things in the wood chipper.) I wonder if these will ever end up at the land fill.
Some guy at work today was looking at stuff on the net and said "Hey Scott check this out" it was the image of turkey guts. So people seem to be spreading this around.
that was probably a few million views right there.
Upon reading it, it almost seems like they are breaking the laws of thermodynamics. They are getting energy out of nothing, or are producing more energy then they are using, but the process is more akin to an oil refinery rather than a power plant, so it probably shouldn't be thought of that way. It appears that it will cost $15/barrel of oil produced, so we know the process isn't "free".