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ILLINOIS STYLE: UI researcher makes crude oil from pig manure
BellevilleNewsDemocrat.com ^
| 04-30-06
| WestVirginiaRebel
Posted on 04/30/2006 7:07:09 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel
HAMPSHIRE, Ill.-Can the other white meat's manure make black gold?
"We are the first to actually do this," professor Yuanhui Shang says proudly of his team's ability to turn swine manure into crude oil. He's a bio-environmental engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who has led the 10-year research project that recently announced a breakthrough in porcine petroleum.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: crap; energy; pigfeces; weirdscience
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Shades of Bartertown. Plus, it would be really great to use this to really stick it to the Islamists.
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Too bad we haven't worked out the conversion of RINO manure to oil. This Congress and Administration could supply ALL of our energy needs for the next five centuries in less than six months.
"Steroids in Baseball"....I'm still hacked over that waste of time for Senators to preen on TV while the country is going down the tubes. What's next? Calling NASCAR crewchiefs on the carpet for illegal parts?
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:11:33 PM PDT
by
308MBR
(The GOP should remember the fate of the Whigs as they run away from their base.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Using pig generated fuel to supplant mideast oil; talk about being put on irony alert.
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:20:20 PM PDT
by
RKBA Democrat
(Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
It would be so fitting if a pig could end our dependence on arab oil.
To: WestVirginiaRebel
"Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:22:15 PM PDT
by
Publius
To: WestVirginiaRebel
"Anything into Oil"
Turkey Guts, Pig Manure, Landfills, Public Waste (Sewage), all Ag Byproducts, Coal, Oil Shale, Grass Clippings....
If it is Carbon based it is a candidate.
TT
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:30:37 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
To: TexasTransplant
vegetarians and PETA won't like this - it provides another reason for huge hog farms to exist - for both food and fuel production.
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:38:13 PM PDT
by
HumanitysEdge
(http://humanitysedge.homeip.net/)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Well crap, that is exciting!
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:46:18 PM PDT
by
crghill
To: WestVirginiaRebel
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:52:36 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: HumanitysEdge
Maybe we can turn peta vegetarians into oil ?
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:52:51 PM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Congrats. You now have the topic for tomorrow's daily political limerick.
I now have to decide whether to satrize Muzzies or RINOs with it :-)
Cheers!
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:55:26 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Hook this up to ted kennedy and its darn near an infinite energy source.
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:56:41 PM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: All
This is a little off topic but maybe some of you can answer this question: If Cuba can drill 45 miles off shore of us for oil, what is to stop an independent American company from doing the same thing? If it is outside our limits I don't see how the US could stop them. Couldn't they drill and then sell it to companies in the US as an independent entity? Yes, no?
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:57:40 PM PDT
by
calex59
(No country can survive multiculturalism. Dual cultures don't mix, history has taught us that!)
To: grey_whiskers
There once was a guy who was dorky/Who decided to turn to Porky/He tapped Porky's ass/And replaced all our gas/And the Islamists committed suicide en mass.
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:58:26 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: HumanitysEdge
>>>>"vegetarians and PETA won't like this"<<<<
Actually it might be an easy sell because it mitigates runoff water problems from high production farms.
TT
To: WestVirginiaRebel
let's export it all to the Middle East. We could hire out the Exxon Valdez (well, at least one time)
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posted on
04/30/2006 7:59:42 PM PDT
by
castlebrew
(true gun control is hitting where you're aiming!)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
petroleum products are involved in making gunpowder, IIRC. this could kil two birds with one stone (so to speak)
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posted on
04/30/2006 8:01:04 PM PDT
by
castlebrew
(true gun control is hitting where you're aiming!)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
petroleum products are involved in making gunpowder, IIRC. this could kill two birds with one stone (so to speak)
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posted on
04/30/2006 8:01:22 PM PDT
by
castlebrew
(true gun control is hitting where you're aiming!)
To: castlebrew
Something that would make General "Black Jack" Pershing proud!
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posted on
04/30/2006 8:03:09 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: TexasTransplant
Imagine if this could be done with human waste.
Imagine the big city politicians just gleefuly in the potential corruption opportunities for eager city politicos.
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posted on
04/30/2006 8:05:30 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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