Luke Hansen wrote: >It's interesting that in this thread so far nobody has >brought up Thermal Depolymerization... >
Oh, that's been discussed (and disgust!) here before! Check the archives, Luke. >that's a pretty >cool technology that's in its infancy, but has >potential. There's a plant in the "bible belt" >somewhere that's been using butterball turkey offal as >a base material... > > The problem is not the technology itself, but the factory farm system that actually generates enough "waste" for thermal depolymerization to be practical. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization > >Anywho...BD proponants will no doubt have something >negative to say about this emerging technology, but I >think it's pretty cool. > Please don't insult the collective intelligence of the list members with such a simplistic dismissal. Some of us have been here a LONG time, and thermal depolymerization is old news in this forum. > Of course, it's not solving >out emissions problems, or reducing our energy >consumption...which should be the paramount goal in >developing energy technology....more for less, >renewable etc. > > > There's hope for you, if you really understand what you've written in that last statement. robert luis rabello "The Edge of Justice" "The Long Journey" New Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/