Re: Nuclear Spring -- Thermal Depolymerization?. Michael Smith wrote me about the thermal depolymerization process of Changing World Technologies, Inc. (Discover article; recent Fortune article; Wikipedia entry). This process allegedly turns waste--e.g., from turkey processing plants, into crude oil. Its proponents claim we could replace all of the oil we currently import by using only our agricultural waste. By Stephan Kinsella. [LewRockwell.com Blog]
While that is theoretically possible, it wouldn't be economical at this time--this technology is really useful as a way to extract useable resources from things that would otherwise have no value and cost money to dispose of. Keep in mind that, for all the hype about how limited oil is and how we're running out, gasoline is, even at its present high price, cheaper than bottled water.
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