{"id":2352,"date":"2003-04-19T21:51:49","date_gmt":"2003-04-20T04:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/04\/thermal-depolymerization-process\/"},"modified":"2003-04-19T21:51:49","modified_gmt":"2003-04-20T04:51:49","slug":"thermal-depolymerization-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/19\/thermal-depolymerization-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal depolymerization process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Discover Current Issue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.discover.com\/may_03\/gthere.html?article=featoil.html\">Discover magazine<\/a> reports on a process for turning agricultural and human waste into crude oil, minerals, and water:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unlike other solid-to-liquid-fuel processes such as cornstarch into ethanol, this one will accept almost any carbon-based feedstock. If a 175-pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water. While no one plans to put people into a thermal depolymerization machine, an intimate human creation could become a prime feedstock. &#8220;There is no reason why we can&#8217;t turn sewage, including human excrement, into a glorious oil,&#8221; says engineer Terry Adams, a project consultant. So the city of Philadelphia is in discussion with Changing World Technologies to begin doing exactly that. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s 85% efficient, and plants are already on-line that process 200 tons of turkey guts a day, producing 600 barrels of oil. Processing all 600 million tons of America&#8217;s agricultural waste would produce 4 billion barrels of crude, essentially what we import each year. Bad news for the House of Saud, good news for America. And oh, yeah, no more messy toxic waste either. <\/p>\n<p>Bye-bye, Osama.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover magazine reports on a process for turning agricultural and human waste into crude oil, minerals, and water: Unlike other solid-to-liquid-fuel processes such as cornstarch into ethanol, this one will accept almost any carbon-based feedstock. If a 175-pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/19\/thermal-depolymerization-process\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thermal depolymerization process&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-BW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}