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From Turkey Guts to Fuel Oil
Untimely Ripp'd writes "The latest issue of Discover Magazine reports that any day now a plant will go online in Carthage, Missouri that processes turkey guts into high grade oil, natural gas, some minerals, and water. Unfortunately, the Discover article isn't online yet, but here's a newspaper article. The system, developed by Changing World Technologies uses thermal depolymerization and apparently works on almost any and every kind of organic waste. They assert that applying it to 100% of the US' agricultural waste would produce about 4 billion barrels of oil per year -- about the amount we currently import.
It sounds too good to be true, it sounds like one of those fly-by-night-in-the-face-of-the-second-law deals, but it isn't happening in somebody's basement -- it's happening in a multi-million dollar facility developed with Con-Agra."
This is really just fossil fuels for the extremely impatient.
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
I was expecting that evil 'bit' story...
Where's my IPv4 story dammit?
petro products stunk... I bet this smells much more foul... ;)
I'm so paranoid, I can't tell if this is another April Fools or not!
I am without speech! Get out!!!
(Seinfield impression)
~~~Please pass the salt, I hate unsalted MD5s
Why bother with a plant for this? I can already turn chili into ah, "natural gas". :-)
First we take Iraq...next Turkey!
-AC
The date on the article was Dec. 4, 2002, so I think this one is legit.
So does it mean we'll have to invade Kentucky next?
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
My guess is that the Slashdot eds thought it _was_ an April Fool's joke or they wouldn't have posted it today. If they repost it a second time within the next two hours though, we'll know it must be true.
This is just a plan to let President Bush take care of all those PETA wackos. You see, by making oil from turkeys, he'll surely upset any self-righteous PETA member. They'll boycott the new oil and continue to use oil from the middle East, and consequently they'll be supporting terrorism. Thankfully, the Patriot Act will allow the government to lock up these proponents of terrorism for an indefinite amount of time at an undisclosed location.
Now finally, we may all eat meat without fearing harrassment.
This wouldn't happen to be an expansion of the "Little Lisa Slurry Factory" would it?
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
Great, now every highway will smell like KFC.
I've heard the the oil industry has already issued a press release stating this was a hoax.
that's "fowl."
What happens to the evil bits? Oh no... wait, it's IP packets, not turkeys that have evil bits right? Perhaps someone will remind me?
(1) Club baby seal
(2) ?
(3) Oil!
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why has it taken so long to get here?!
We call this a tradition, this is in the Slashdot culture...
You are new here, aren't you?
I'd rather be sailing...
No, just instead of raiding their oil supply we'll steal all their fowl.
"People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
Wow. Back in college, I didn't realize so many of the guys in my dorm had biodiesel engines in their room.
i am now going to commend the pizza man on his care for the enviorment! i always wondered why he smelled so odd...
Will we have to start selling "vegan-friendly" fuel now?
Some men spend their entire lives trying to kill themselves for having been born. --Ross MacDonald
I'm just waiting for them to turn a cup of crude oil into high-quality turkey meat. mmmm.... turkey!
Yeah, but this one is only 4 months old. (Dec. 4, 2002)
Nit-pickers aren't welcome on slashdot...
If we wanted to be corrected all the time, we'd surround ourselves with bored know it all geeks -
Oh.
Um. Back to the drawing board.
Just because I doubt myself does not mean I find your position compelling.
Auto fuel.. is... PEOPLE!!
k.. maybe it was funnier in my head..
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Automobiles, upon filling the tank with turkey-petrol, tend not to be drivable and prefer to doze on the couch watching NFL football.
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Since Changing World Technology installed their "turkey" depolymerization pilot program, we're swimming in oil. The dramatic upturn in oil revenue, combined with the sudden, unexplained drop in the number of homeless people (and now pigeons) has left the city coffers flush with funds in an economic downturn. And let me tell you, Con-Agra's Soylent Gold runs with less pinging than any of those premium over-priced gasolines.
That was me!! I had a really good working model in my room, and I put the plans... Um... I forgot....
Screw it, lets order a pizza, 'k?
The Democratic Party: We've been pussies since 1968!
Lock them up you say?
Wouldn't it be more efficient to use them to fuel your SUV?
Amoco/BP Green: It's People!
(that's funny on multiple levels...think environmentalists, vegetarians, "BP" stands for British People, Soylent Green...pure comedy gold!)
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