"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

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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OHSU Foundation
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