May 14, 2003
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Holy…
What does THIS portend?
A while back, CASH909 told me about a process to turn old tires to oil, but while I thought it was a cool recycling concept, I didn’t think it would have a huge impact. However,
according to this article, it is not just tires, it is any carbon based trash. Any. Carbon. Based. Trash. Just processing America’s agricultural waste only produce the equivelent of 4 billion barrels of oil. In 2001, we imported 4.2 billion barrels.
http://www.discover.com/may_03/gthere.html?article=featoil.html
Highlights : Thermal depolymerization process converts waste-to-oil. A commercial-scale facility has already been constructed in Missouri for about $20 million. Compare that to the military costs required to secure our current supplies (even if you don’t believe that is something we pay for, the cost-benefits of this one really seem to pay off).
Comments (3)
Hey there~
Did you know there is a certain farmer who converted manure into electricity to power his farm? Pretty groovy beans…methane I think.
I have heard of using methane to generate power – I think they do that more frequently in China. Makes more sense than just letting it go up in the air and becoming a greenhouse gas.
RP,
Glad you found the link. It will be life changing if the technology actually works like they say it will work.
-CASH909