From Turkey Guts to Fuel Oil · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Tuesday April 1, 2003 @08:42AM from the every-part-except-the-gobble dept.

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."

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First Post! by mthed · 2003-04-01 08:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

April Fools ;)

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Just like the slug-killing robot by fobbman · 2003-04-01 09:02 · Score: 1, Offtopic

This story reminded me of the slug-killing robot that runs off of decomposing slug corpses. Gross, yet cool.