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To: snopercod
How much oil did you say a ton of pig shit would make?

The turkey plant in Carthage produces 500 barrels a day from 200 tons of turkey waste. So that is 2 1/2 barrels per ton. The estimated cost is $15 a barrel, but that isn't the end all be all of the financial side. They also produce tons of high nitrate fertilizer, tons of methane (used by the plant for heating, so cost to purchase fuel for heating would be partially offset) and they reduce the landfill destined waste by a large percent (80% or more) saving transport and storage fees for the turkey plant.

151 posted on 04/13/2004 1:55:58 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Just in case someone making this calculation doesn't know, an oil barrel is 42 gallons, not the 55 gallons typically thought of as being in an oil drum.
154 posted on 04/13/2004 2:01:31 PM PDT by CedarDave (Democrat campaign strategy: Tell a lie often enough today and it becomes truth tomorrow.)
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