[Waco]

How much energy goes into the "thermal" part of this process,,,where does it come from?

[Weirdad]

The key question!

[TheLion]

This process was in last May's (2003) Discover Magazine. I think the title was something like "Anything into oil". I remember it well because I was curious about where to buy the stock after reading the article.

They quoted $10 per barrel to start off. There were 3 bi-products of the proscess...oil was one. All were relatively ,harmless.

Anything but radioactive elements can be broken down. Pretty amazing. You will need to read the article, as I don't remember the details.

[Husker24]

If it really could produce as much oil as it says, then it should become self sufficiant after a short while.

[JosephW]

There was an article on this about a year ago posted here on FR. The system is only about 50-70% efficient. However we're talking trash here. If 30-50% is used to generate the power and 50-70% become oil (and other materials), do we really care about the lost 30-50%?

It's not a free lunch, but the cost is something we want to get rid of anyway. It would be a good deal if it was on 20% efficient.

[grundle]

The original article from last year should be able to answer your questions:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897232/posts