[Eric in the Ozarks]

The future belongs to the frugal.

[arete]

Later read.

[Bikers4Bush]

Bump for later.

[ClearCase_guy]

"Step right up Ladeeees and Gentlemen! I have here a machine -- a miraculous machine! It will take your garbage, your sewage, your turkey renderings -- yes, my friends, I said your turkey renderings! And it will transform -- through the miracle of science -- all of that into oil. Petroleum! As good as the oil made by God himself! And how much will it cost, you ask? Why, my friends, technology such as this is priceless! But on this day -- this very day! I will charge you the mere sum of a dollar!"

[Iowa Granny]

thank you for posting this ckilmer.

CGG: An interesting read.

[KellyAdmirer]

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.

Next step Soylent Green. "I am a human being!"

[AFreeBird]

B4L8r

[DeFault User]

Thank goodness somebody found a use for turkey offal besides making cheap, fowl tasting sausage.

I hope this isn't another 'cold fusion' type technology.

[linear]

Can someone with a chem engineering background comment on this? It reminds me of Segway, lots of flash, no substance. But, you never know...

[Petronski]

"There is no reason why we can't turn sewage, including human excrement, into a glorious oil," says engineer Terry Adams, a project consultant.

Imagine all the General Motors vehicles which would be converted in a flash from running like shit to running on shit.

[Hank Rearden]

Change trash & sewage to oil for $15 a barrel

New Jersey's gonna be the next OPEC.

[Question_Assumptions]

Bump for later.

[grundle]

Look at what I did over at DU:

http://tinyurl.com/kmaw

Heh heh heh!

[Gritty]

Very interesting article.

Saudi Arabia must be sweating bullets!

[Enchante]

It’s 4+ years later (since this article). Anyone know what the current state of progress is? Found the following in Wikipedia but it doesn’t really give an updated progress report:

Thermal depolymerization

Main article: Thermal depolymerization

Thermal depolymerization (TDP) is an important new process for the reduction of complex organic materials into light crude oil. These materials may include non oil-based waste products, such as old tires, offal, wood and plastic. The process mimics the natural geological processes thought to be involved in the production of fossil fuels. Under pressure and heat, long chain polymers of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon decompose into short-chain petroleum hydrocarbons.

Conversion efficiencies can be very high: Working with turkey offal as the feedstock, the process proved to have yield efficiencies of approximately 85%. That is, the end products contained 85% of the energy contained in the inputs to the process - most notably the energy content of the feedstock, but also accounting for electricity for pumps and natural gas for heating.

It has been estimated that in the United States, agricultural waste alone could be used to produce 3.7 billion barrels of oil per year. The USA currently consumes 7.5 billion barrels (232.5 billion US gallons) of oil per year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Its sad to admit the commies are taking over ...Oil is a gift from GOD,This nation is to lethargic and brainwashed to insist we drill for it ,and the people who hate us and our GOD are selling it to us..there is no cure for stupid that I know of..God help us