Hi Arthur,
I read the article, and I too thought "there's got to be a catch". I
haven't heard if there is a catch or not, but the company mentioned in
the article, ChangingWorld Technology, has a website:
http://www.changingworldtech.com plus, you can do a google search on
+"conagra" +"turkey" +"oil" and get a few more links, including
http://www.changingworldtech.com/mfceo.html, which describes, in more
detail, the Con-Agra deal mentioned in the Discover article. Still not
sure if there's a catch or not.
Arthur Frank wrote:
>"Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year":
>
>http://www.discover.com/may_03/gthere.html?article=featoil.html
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>And it's not just turkey guts: "The process is designed to handle almost any waste product imaginable, including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, harbor-dredged muck, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper-pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil-refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores... waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products, all valuable and environmentally benign: high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing."
>
>Sounds great. What's the catch? There's *always* a catch. Are any of you out there familiar with this? Is anything getting lost in the hype?
>
>Art Frank
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