Am familiar with it. Discover magazine has done several articles on this company over the past few years.
Their technique is a solid one and over comes a lot of the problems with similar ones used in the past. The problem in the past is that they always had to put more energy into the process then they got out. However he figured a way around that by combining the processes used and comes out ahead. The catch; his process didn't scale up very well. What they found was that the pressure and temperature required varied widely based on the mix that was tossed in and they could not get consistent results. He also was working on turning Turkey guts to oil: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1125_031125_turkeyoil.html But that failed as well. They put the plant downtown and the city threatened to shut them down because of the smell. Don't know if they did or not (they had planned to put a lot of scrubbers in). They also had a problem with their efficiency there. Without government subsidies, they could not run the plant at a profit. That may change though with crude at over $100 a barrel. Interesting technology for sure but not ready for prime time and may never be. My bet is on another process, which breaks down garbage using a plasma to produce heat (and steam). However the focus with that is reducing garbage and not producing oil, so it's a different animal. Seems to be much more workable a process though. Jim. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NF] Technology to turn trash to oil? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQA4cUwYus Pretty interesting. I haven't researched this at all; just thought I'd pass the link on to see if anyone out there was familiar with the process. -- Ed Leafe [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
