Posted on 05/06/2005 1:11:46 PM PDT by thejokker
Just their daily waste output would power one of these plants nicely.....
See, liberals will solve the energy crisis after all!
The Islamonazis are always complaining that we're in the middle east to "take their resources" - as if we don't pay them enough for the oil WE extract from their soil for them. Last time this oil from anything was posted, I suggested that we merely go to the middle east for people. Take their unemployed, uneducated masses, and recycle them into oil. End of terrorism. Extreme fear of the west.
It wasn't a popular idea, even though I was joking. Seriously, I was......
bttt
Non sense all of it. I have my own secret stock of Dodo birds, they work incredibly well except for the horrendous squawking they make when I place them in the grinder.
They're not making crude oil. They are making the equivalent of #2 fuel oil. Considerably lighter.
It's very possible you're absolutely correct but I've been following this and similar technologies for a long time and I do believe that at some point it will be possible to simply toss trash into what is effectively a cracking tower and dis/re-assemble it into multiple components.
But then I never got the flying car I was promised in the 50's!
"Lessee... 4 billion barrels at 55 gallons/barrel * 8 lbs per gallon = 880 million tons."
You need to re-calculate this - a barrel, when talking about oil, is 42 gallons. Crude oil weighs about 7 lbs/gallon, average. If you calculate this, it's 600 million tons in, 588 million tons out. The material balance checks out. "Matter can neither be created nor destroyed" if we are talking about non-nuclear processes.
This was in the May 2003 issue of Discover magazine
http://www.discover.com/issues/may-03/features/featoil/
(only readable by subscribers).
They had a followup you can read for a scaled up production factory
http://www.discover.com/issues/jul-04/features/anything-into-oil/
I used spotted owls myself
"...600 million tons of turkey guts. Thee aren't that many turkeys."
Translate that 600 million tons as organic waste, not just turkey guts. Of course, we need to remember that there are many more turkeys than those being proscessed for Thanksgiving and Christmas - think of the ones you know - some even post on this forum. :)
Soylent T ... for turkey.
Our streets and roadways will be smelling like a Thanksgiving kitchen. Yum!
That's what I'm thinking. And even if you have other sources of organic material, you're still talking about intermediate sources. The carbon's gotta come from somewhere, and in the case of turkeys it's from turkey feed, which is probably some sort of grain product grown with petroleum-based fertilizers. This is a nifty idea but ultimately it's just a recycling scheme. It doesn't solve the basic problem of where to get the hydrocarbons in the first place.
Lol :)
I used to have to work with long, short and metric tons – and no one would ever tell what type they were using. Now that I’m retired I don’t even want to think of it.
Oh, there are scores of tons. Not just the long and the short of it!
I believe that Discover admitted the error in the letters section in the next issue.
600 million tons is 2 tons for every man woman and child in america per year. Or over 10 pounds per day per person!
Aha! Thence comes the fowl smell!!
So apparently we can get greater than 100% mass efficiency on this miracle process.....
The numbers still don't work, but you used the density of water, not oil. Oil is lighter than water (it floats). Petroleum oil has an density of only approximatly 82.2% of water.
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