That's all well and good. How many turkeys per day would it take to replace all imported oil?
More than we can eat.
It's a start, and uses garbage that would otherwise use up resources to dispose of.
How about we just cut out the middle man and make a car that runs on turkeys. lol
I think the article has a mistake. Should the output read 100 barrels instead of 100 gallons!!??
An original article from May, 2003, on this process read like this...
...Each day 200 tons of turkey offal will be carted to the first industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into various useful products, including 600 barrels of light oil....
beats me. the article--or another like it-- claims that oil imports could be killed by changing all all animal offal to oil but I don't think this is right. I've read earlier articles that said if all agricultural waste were converted to oil then all oil imports could be killed.
that sounds more like it.
basically the idea is that anything carbon based can be turned oil. that includes everything from agricultural wasted to industrial waste to human & animal garbage and sewage.
beats me. the article--or another like it-- claims that oil imports could be killed by changing all all animal offal to oil but I don't think this is right. I've read earlier articles that said if all agricultural waste were converted to oil then all oil imports could be killed.
that sounds more like it.
basically the idea is that anything carbon based can be turned oil. that includes everything from agricultural wasted to industrial waste to human & animal garbage and sewage.
beats me. the article--or another like it-- claims that oil imports could be killed by changing all all animal offal to oil but I don't think this is right. I've read earlier articles that said if all agricultural waste were converted to oil then all oil imports could be killed.
that sounds more like it.
basically the idea is that anything carbon based can be turned oil. that includes everything from agricultural wasted to industrial waste to human & animal garbage and sewage.
It's not just turkeys, it's any hydrocarbon waste material (organic scraps plus other hydrocarbons like plastic). I believe the plant design allows for up to 500 barrels of oil to be produced, at full capacity. With some 19-20 million barrels a day usage, obviously a single plant would be insufficient, but hundreds of these plants around the country could eventually produce maybe 10-20% off that total, perhaps more.
THIS process is amazing. You should read more about it. It is FREAKING AMAZING.
When we run out of turkeys, we can use Michael Moore.