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AgroWaste Oil Plant Starts Production

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the texas-gold-from-cleveland-steamers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo, and others has a story about the first Waste-to-Oil plant going online, and selling the oil commercially. Using TCP (Thermal Conversion Process), the plant is producing 100-200 barrels of No. 4 oil a day, and has the capacity to produce up to 500 barrels per day. With the amount of agricultural waste in the U.S., and many more of these plants, we could possibly reduce our need for foreign oil."

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  1. It's nice but by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Redundant

    let's not kid ourselves. It'll take thousands of these plants to produce enough oil to reduce our foreign dependance. We use a LOT of oil here.

    LK

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    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  2. Re:Don't be so quick to judge... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    FYI, oceans can't melt. Melting describes a change of state from a solid to a liquid. If you meant to refer to the polar ice caps melting, then that would produce MORE water, not less. Better luck next time, dingleberry...

  3. Why stop at "foreign" oil? by Trackster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How about reducing the need for oil as a whole?