Forgot about this...
http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg45810.html
[Biofuel] 'Changing World Technologies' Plan to Turn Garbage into Oil
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Keith
Hello Brian
Ok, I promised the list admin I would look in the archives before I
asked questions about new subjects. I did find some stuff about
thermal depolymerization TDP.
http://www.mindfully.org/Energy/2003/Anything-Into-Oil1may03.htmht
tp://www.mindfully.org/Energy/2003/Anything-Into-Oil1may03.htm
I really would like to know what the current group thinks about the
Thermal Conversion Process (TCP). I have read the company blurbs at
Changing World Technologies site and a few other articles found on
the Web. Have you all exhausted your talk on this already? In the
meantime I will keep searching the archives. I realize that TDP is
not a backyard project so if you want to leave it alone I will
understand.
Brian Rodgers
It's a hardy perennial, always popping up in a new guise, whether
oil from turkey parts or whatever. An archive search for
Fischer-Tropsch will tell you much, including this fascinating
snippet, from a list member:
One of our oldest scientists, now 84 yrs. old, was responsible for
going into Germany post WWII and uncovering the remains of Hitler's
synthetic fuels machine which had been bombed out. I'm speaking of
Fischer-Tropsch oily-based paraffins which are hydrocracked down
into shorter chains for synthetic gasoline, jet fuel and diesel. He
brought back some of the original German scientists who'd perfected
this technology which utilized coarse, low-grade brown German coal
as feedstock. Three times he tried to start-up an American version
of synthetic hydrocarbon fuels in the GTL arena and was blocked. As
the highest ranking American energy technologist post WWII, he
couldn't figure this out. It was over 20 years later that he
realized that the late John Rockefeller of Standard Oil [Exxon] had
been the politic behind the scenes, making sure that his new,
alternative fuel ideas did not materialize. This scientist then took
his blueprints for the first major GTL project and gave them to
Sasol who built his first coal gasification device back in 1953 and
it is still operating today. Sasol from South Africa is the oldest
synthetic fuels producer globally.
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Keith
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