Getting oil from Turkey (1 Viewer)

Max Leung · Apr 13, 2003

From Turkey Guts To Oil

Ignore the April 1st post date! It's not a joke!

I just picked up the May issue of Discover magazine. Apparently, a plant has been set up to turn just about anything into oil. It was set up right next to a turkey plant, so naturally turkey parts that aren't eaten are mulched then "cooked" a few times to produce oil, gas, minerals, and sterile water.

The process is called "thermal depolymerization".

"There is no reason why we can't turn sewage, including human excrement, into a glorious oil", says engineer Terry Adams, a project consultant. So the city of Philadelphia is in discussion with Changing World Technologies to begin doing exactly that.

The process is 85% efficient. 15 BTUs are needed to process 100 BTUs of feedstock.

Converting all yearly US agricultural waste into oil and gas yields an equivalent energy output of 4 billion barrels of oil. The US imports about 4.2 billion barrels of oil a year.

Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? Anyways, you should run to your nearest supermarket and pick up this May's issue of Discover. If it is bogus, we'll read about it in a followup article in Skeptic magazine...they'll make perfect companion pieces.

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Greg.K · Apr 13, 2003

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 minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water.

This will revolutionize the mob hit business!

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Max Leung · Apr 13, 2003

Yes, that's what I thought too.

I think Kentucy Fried Chicken should give up the fast food business, and start making oil! Then they'll have a product that people will actually feel good consuming, instead of ralfing into the toilet.

Anybody know anyone who works at this plant? I'd like to know if this is for real.

Carl Johnson · Apr 13, 2003

absolutely. If that were true it would be one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind, certainly worthy of more fanfare than a footnote in Discover magazine

Joseph DeMartino · Apr 13, 2003

Well, the article, at least, is real. And Discover generally doesn't go very far out on a limb in reporting such things. It may just be that Con-Agra has kept the whole thing secret until the plant's opening to protect its patents, and that the mainstream press is a tad busy with other things right now and hasn't picked up the story yet. I'm a bit skeptical myself, but not prepared to dismiss the story out of hand, as I would with "free energy" machines, perpetual motion devices, Bigfoot and Elvis sightings.

Regards,

Joe

Max Leung · Apr 14, 2003

Ah, thanks for the link Joe! When the story was posted on Slashdot, the article wasn't on Discover's website yet. Now everyone can read it!

It sounds very promising indeed.

"Liposuction for oil!" -- see, obesity can be good. You could keep your SUV running if you pack on the pounds!

MikeAlletto · Apr 14, 2003

Reminds me of Kentucky Fried Movie where they are sucking oil out of teenagers...

yuck

Todd Hochard · Apr 14, 2003

You could keep your SUV running if you pack on the pounds!

Haha! This seems to be the average American's plan, these days.

Wow. I bet the idea gets bought by ExxonMobil and hidden away in Baghdad bunker somewhere.

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Charles J P · Apr 14, 2003

At first I thought we were going to talk about getting oil from Turkey, instead of Iraq. As in crude oil. I just stopped by to see all the IBTLs.

Max Leung · Apr 14, 2003

IBTL = In Before the Turkeys Land?

Charles, this thread really is about getting oil from turkey! Iraq, is that some kind of bird, like the Roc?

Charles J P · Apr 14, 2003

Max Leung · Apr 14, 2003

Silly me, the Discover website doesn't have the full article. Guess you have to buy it!

teapot2001 · Apr 14, 2003

I thought this thread was about getting oil from the country Turkey.

~T

StephenA · Apr 14, 2003

IBTL in this case could be in before the turkey lard.

Max Leung · Apr 14, 2003

Another interesting application of this process would be destroying diseased livestock. The inventor and CEO claim that harmful microbes are utterly destroyed. I wonder if those horrible prion things that eat your brain can be delt with easily, without all that wasteful and stinky burning.

We could use a few of those plants up here in Alberta too. There is a hell of a lot of oil up in the oilsands (billions of barrels of oil yet to be tapped). Extracting the oil is very pricey with current methods.

I thought this thread was about getting oil from the country Turkey.

You can also get oil from country chicken too!

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Dennis Nicholls · Apr 14, 2003

And there's another story in the news media about "recycling" poultry:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...dd_chickens_dc

Thomas Newton · Apr 15, 2003

Putting live chickens into wood chippers is SICK. What's worse is that the article says the US Government gave the farmers permission!

Evan Case · Apr 15, 2003

Yes, but can you get Greece?

Ok, you can all kill me for that one.

Evan

Dennis Nicholls · Apr 15, 2003

Putting live chickens into a wood chipper is sick.

Putting 30,000 live chickens into a wood chipper is more than just sick.

Thomas Newton · Apr 15, 2003

I don't think I want to know how these "farmers" would have made chicken soup (if the chickens were not diseased).

The article said that the farmers wanted to kill the chickens because the chickens weren't giving enough eggs. Mrs. Tweedy would be proud!

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