Nobody has ever imagined before that Thanksgiving dinners could be an event to be able to collect crude oil. A Carthage, Missouri factory has come up with a great idea to transform turkey innards and even their feathers into clean, fuel oil. CWT or Changing World Technologies has backed up this project and they are looking into other sources such as hogs, chickens, cows, even Parmesan cheese and onions! But for now, the turkey.
CWT produces fuel through a process called thermo-depolymerization (or TDP). TDP is a process wherein biodegradable wastes can be broken down with the use of intense heat and pressure. Out of this comes fuel oil, natural gas, even minerals. TDP is much like the natural process of producing fossil fuels, minus the gazillions of years to come up with the end-products!
Turkey guts can be mixed with water then ground until thick and then burned at about 500 degrees Fahrenheit. It gets pressurized at 600 pounds per square inch in about 15-60 minutes. This ultra-heating and pressure causes the wastes? structures to break apart. In a nutshell, this process ends up with fuel as the end-product. Somehow, this process duplicates the natural production of methane gas. Any type of animal or plant waste can be used to produce methane; and with this clever idea (with heat and pressure applied), comes cheap fuel.
The U.S. government remains adamant on its plans to bring the number of landfills to zero. America, just like most countries, depends on oil-producing countries just so they keep up with modern living. With the production of ?turkey crude oil?, maybe the government is already well on its way to solving an environmental obstacle?just yet.
With $5 million as a start off capital at the Carthage factory, the turkey innards should be able to produce 500 barrels of oil each day. If all of this becomes a reality, there would be additional plants that would be set up in Colorado, Nevada, Alabama and even outside of the U.S. (in Italy). When this becomes a steady project, this source of fuel oil would soon be competitively priced and the government would be able to earn from it. And who ends up happy? It will be the Americans who?d get to benefit out of the cheap but highly dependable source of energy.
Theoretically, if all of the American agricultural wastes are turned into energy sources, United States will be able to rival the oil-producing countries when it comes to the production of fuel. This is economically as well as environmentally good for the country! April 2008 is a month to be marked as this breakthrough starts with the small factory in Missouri.
Many people are also fighting off the idea and saying that it is a bit absurd (as only a few barrels are being produced recently). But all great ideas had their share of rejections and turn downs?and this could be just the beginning for ?turkey crude oil?. But if success prevails, everyone will definitely benefit from it?even the detractors of the very idea!
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