Something Postive in the news for a change...
Saturday, April 19, 2003 by DavidK | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I found this absolutely astounding. A friend told me about this tonight at my son's house and when I got home he'd sent me a link to the original story.
Wow... check this out:
Anything into Oil
"In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can change almost anything into oil.
Really.
"This is a solution to three of the biggest problems facing mankind," says Brian Appel, chairman and CEO of Changing World Technologies, the company that built this pilot plant and has just completed its first industrial-size installation in Missouri. "This process can deal with the world's waste. It can supplement our dwindling supplies of oil. And it can slow down global warming."
Pardon me, says a reporter, shivering in the frigid dawn, but that sounds too good to be true." --- quoted from the article on the Discovery website: http://www.discover.com/may_03/gthere.html?article=featoil.html
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LS_Boreas
Reply #2 Saturday, April 19, 2003 10:58 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, April 19, 2003 10:58 PM
That could be a tremendous boon to the US economy (and the rest of the world, too!) if it proves to work as economically as they claim it does. Definitely a company (and technology) to watch.
bakerstreet
Reply #4 Sunday, April 20, 2003 12:19 AM
Reply #4 Sunday, April 20, 2003 12:19 AM
I love the line:
"175-pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water."
Reminds me of Dune. Now we can solve the homeless problem too!!! But won't our evil overlords crush this idea and file it with antigravity, world peace, and the engine that burns water?
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I'm just messing with ya, D. It is a really cool thing. )
"175-pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water."
Reminds me of Dune. Now we can solve the homeless problem too!!! But won't our evil overlords crush this idea and file it with antigravity, world peace, and the engine that burns water?
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I'm just messing with ya, D. It is a really cool thing. )
this isn't a joke?
craeonics
Reply #6 Sunday, April 20, 2003 2:36 AM
Reply #6 Sunday, April 20, 2003 2:36 AM
Sounds good to me. Let's see how far this will go.
werewolf
Reply #8 Sunday, April 20, 2003 8:53 AM
Reply #8 Sunday, April 20, 2003 8:53 AM
I read that article also. It really does sound amazing and an answer to the trash problems.
JamMeister33
Reply #9 Sunday, April 20, 2003 9:17 AM
Reply #9 Sunday, April 20, 2003 9:17 AM
That's incredible, I laughed the whole time I read the story....
If this is legitimate, it shows an awful lot of promise.
If this is legitimate, it shows an awful lot of promise.
paxx
Reply #10 Sunday, April 20, 2003 9:53 AM
Reply #10 Sunday, April 20, 2003 9:53 AM
Hum, although if it's true, it's amazing, it still will not solve the pollution issue caused by fossil fuel. I'm afraid that if such a technology does break through it will only make matters worse as oil will become forever available, efforts to find an alternative propulsion source for vehicles will stop or slow down. 
DavidK
Reply #11 Sunday, April 20, 2003 10:14 AM
Reply #11 Sunday, April 20, 2003 10:14 AM
paxx - dealing with waste is probably as big (or bigger) a problem as pollution from fossil fuels. This technology would not only solve the waste issue (even toxic waste) but make recycling a reality. (I love the bag of ground up appliances)
It sounds like the plants would also reduce the need for a lot of energy production (it uses the natural gas it creates to make heat for the process) thus reducing pollution from energy production. Oil will always be a necessary resource to make plastics and various other uses even if we find a viable alternative for automobiles.
I saw another article I'm trying to locate (should've saved the link). It says someone found the original plans for the "200MPG carberator". It turns out that story was true. An inventor did create such a thing and was bought out by an oil company but he left a copy of the design which was recently discovered.
The only thing about the rendering plant article that bothers me is the company's advisor is James Woolsey. I have a feeling this technology isn't going to be rolled out to the world in any affordable way. The obvious humanitarian benefits of this will probably be ignored in favor of privatized profits.
It sounds like the plants would also reduce the need for a lot of energy production (it uses the natural gas it creates to make heat for the process) thus reducing pollution from energy production. Oil will always be a necessary resource to make plastics and various other uses even if we find a viable alternative for automobiles.
I saw another article I'm trying to locate (should've saved the link). It says someone found the original plans for the "200MPG carberator". It turns out that story was true. An inventor did create such a thing and was bought out by an oil company but he left a copy of the design which was recently discovered.
The only thing about the rendering plant article that bothers me is the company's advisor is James Woolsey. I have a feeling this technology isn't going to be rolled out to the world in any affordable way. The obvious humanitarian benefits of this will probably be ignored in favor of privatized profits.
joetheblow
Reply #12 Sunday, April 20, 2003 10:33 AM
Reply #12 Sunday, April 20, 2003 10:33 AM
hmmmm... I was trying to get rid of oil. Now this machine comes around.
skinnaboy
Reply #13 Sunday, April 20, 2003 11:08 AM
Reply #13 Sunday, April 20, 2003 11:08 AM
I dont like to be political, but that and other technology that does the same stuff has been around for 35 yrs
snarph
Reply #15 Sunday, April 20, 2003 12:51 PM
Reply #15 Sunday, April 20, 2003 12:51 PM
Its kinda like the benevolent aliens with the how to serve man book
...........cook book
...........cook book
bakerstreet
Reply #16 Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:03 PM
Reply #16 Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:03 PM
Now when a machine like that comes out that can render a 175 pound man into 175 pounds of food, THEN worry...
Soylent Green is people!!!
Soylent Green is people!!!
joetheblow
Reply #17 Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:41 PM
Reply #17 Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:41 PM
you know, this does sound like Dune.
So if someone misteriously 'dies', he can be turing into oil?
Freaky.
So if someone misteriously 'dies', he can be turing into oil?
Freaky.
joetheblow
Reply #18 Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:48 PM
Reply #18 Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:48 PM
Did you know:
That electicity is the largest economic entity on the planet? 10 times larger than oil?
Who ever produces electiciy holds the power.
That electicity is the largest economic entity on the planet? 10 times larger than oil?
Who ever produces electiciy holds the power.
DavidK
Reply #19 Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:53 PM
Reply #19 Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:53 PM
Isn't that how they make all that pork sausage?
I think it was in a movie called "The Ballad of Wotan Rchychevsky".
I think it was in a movie called "The Ballad of Wotan Rchychevsky".
DavidK
Reply #20 Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:58 PM
Reply #20 Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:58 PM
And there's "Delicatessen" too...
Joe - it's actually the phone company that runs the world... that was disclosed in a movie called "Our Man Flint".
hehe - "Who ever produces electiciy holds the power" pun intentional I assume?
Joe - it's actually the phone company that runs the world... that was disclosed in a movie called "Our Man Flint".
hehe - "Who ever produces electiciy holds the power" pun intentional I assume?
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Reply #1 Saturday, April 19, 2003 10:48 PM