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featherynscale ([personal profile] featherynscale) wrote2003-04-10 11:42 am

Fossil fuels for the impatient

Thermal depolymerization makes organic waste into oil. There's a model plant in Pennsylvania doing it, and soon there will be a commercial plant in Carthage, MO.

So we can turn waste into fuel - there's gotta be a catch to this somewhere...

[identity profile] rougewench.livejournal.com 2003-04-10 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
Very interesting stuff. I would imagine the catch may well be the cost of the processing, what it takes to heat the system, etc.


D.