Saturday, March 29, 2003

Carl Zwanzig. "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." [Quotes of the Day] 6:18:28 PM    comments

Changing World Technologies.  This company is about to open the doors on its first commercial plant.  It is working with ConAgra to turn turkey offal (a byproduct of Turkey processing) into light commercial quality oil, natural gas, purified water, and commercially valuable minerals (all at very high quality levels).  Amazingly, this same plant can process just about anything (from plastic bottles to sewage) and turn it into commerial materials without any nasty byproducts.  Economic analysis indicates that the plant will produce oil at an estimated price of $15 a barrel (which is commercially competitive).  The process involves changining the waste products at the molecular level.  This could mean that landfills may become valuable sources of raw materials for reprocessing and that recycling will become a thing of the past (no downcycling of plastics for example).  Very cool and seemingly credible.  If the claims are correct, we should see these plants become ubiquitous in the next ten years. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 6:10:58 PM    comments

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