[ale] Intelligent Power (was global warming) [OT]

[Greg Freemyer]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Per: http://discovermagazine.com/2006/apr/anything-oil
>
>  In the long term, they can make Electrical generating quality crude
>  oil for about $75 / barrel from biowaste. (iirc).
>
>  I have not followed the above oil production plant beyond reading that
>  article, but it is describing an actual plant in full production and
>  selling oil to the local electric company to generate electricity, not
>  some totally pie-in-the-sky project that may be possible with a couple
>  $B in investment.
>
>  The article I sited above is 2 years old.  If anyone has seen a more
>  recent article, I would love to read it.

Decided to see if I could find anything newer.

Looks like the plant is now at full production.  200 tons of turkey
guts / waste a day turned into biodiesel.  Not sure how efficient they
are, but if all of the weight were turned into oil that would be about
50,000 gallons a day, or 1,000 barrels a day, or 350,000 barrels a
year.  Not huge, but not really an experiment either.

Oklahoma is even sending them some really ugly fish guts to get rid of.

The biggest problem is complaints about the odor.  Not sure how they
know it is the oil producing plant and not the turkey processing plant
next door.

Next time they build one, maybe they will be smart enough to build it
somewhere other than in the middle of town.

Greg
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